3rd Edition — Routledge, 2015. — 166 p. In this updated and extended edition of The Greek Sense of Theatre , scholar and practitioner J. Michael Walton revises and expands his visual approach to the theatre of classical Athens. From the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides to the old and new comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, he argues that while Greek drama is...
University of Michigan Press, 2018. — 358 p. Much of the theater of antiquity is marked by erasures: missing origins, broken genres, fragments of plays, ruins of architecture, absented gods, remains of older practices imperfectly buried and ghosting through the civic productions that replaced them. Ruins: Classical Theater and Broken Memory traces the remains, the remembering,...
De Gruyter, 2016. — 625 p. Roman plays have been well studied individually (even including fragmentary or spurious ones more recently). However, they have not always been placed into their context, though plays (just like items in other literary genres) benefit from being seen in context. This edited collection aims to address this issue: it includes 33 contributions by an...
Cambridge University Press, 2007. — 386 p. This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers...
University Of Chicago Press, 2016. — 272 p. Objects as Actors charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items — theatrical props. In this book, Melissa Mueller ingeniously demonstrates the importance of objects in the staging and reception...
Oxford University Press, 2008. — 500 p. This is the first comprehensive and illustrated study of the most important form of theatre in the entire Roman Empire - pantomime, the ancient equivalent of ballet dancing. Performed for more than five centuries in hundreds of theatres from Portugal in the West to the Euphrates, from Gaul to North Africa, solo male dancing stars - the...
Oxford University Press, 2007. — 400 p. — (Oxford Studies in Ancient Documents). — ISBN: 0199277478 A collection of essays, by leading international scholars, on the history of the Greek theatre, and on the wider context of festival culture in which theatrical activity took place in the Greek world. The emphasis is on the documentary material - inscriptions, archaeological...
Milano: Mondadori Università, 2003. — 91 p. — ISBN: 88-882-4209-0. Il teatro greco, prima e fondamentale radice del teatro occidentale, è un fenomeno assolutamente particolare per lo straordinario intreccio di elementi poetici, rituali, sociali e politici che in esso si realizza. Il poeta è chiamato a comporre un'opera che ha nel pubblico cittadino il committente e il primo...