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Author : Eric Csapo
Release : 2020
Genre : Greek drama
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Book Synopsis A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC. by : Eric Csapo
Download or read book A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC. written by Eric Csapo. This book was released on 2020. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Eric Csapo
Release : 2020-01-16
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC by : Eric Csapo
Download or read book A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC written by Eric Csapo. This book was released on 2020-01-16. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the second volume of A Social and Economic History of the Theatre to 300 BC and focuses exclusively on theatre culture in Attica (Rural Dionysia) and the rest of the Greek world. It presents and discusses in detail all the documentary and material evidence for theatre culture and dramatic production from the first two centuries of theatre history, namely the period c.500 to c.300 BC. The traditional assumption is laid to rest that theatre was an exclusively or primarily Athenian institution, with the inclusion of all sources of information for theatrical performances in twenty-two deme sites and over one hundred and twenty independent Greek (and some non-Greek) cities. All texts are translated and made accessible to non-specialists and specialists alike. The volume will be a fundamental work of reference for all classicists and theatre historians interested in ancient theatre and its wider historical contexts.
Author : Eric Csapo
Release : 2010-01-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 043/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater by : Eric Csapo
Download or read book Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater written by Eric Csapo. This book was released on 2010-01-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors andtheir popular reception from the origins of theater in ClassicalGreece to the Roman Empire Presents a highly original viewpoint into several new andcontested fields of study Offers the first systematic survey of evidence for the spreadof theater outside Athens and the impact of the expansion oftheater upon actors and dramatic literature Addresses a study of the privatization of theater and revealshow it was driven by political interests Challenges preconceived notions about theater history
Author : Eric Csapo
Release : 2022-10-24
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 355/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World by : Eric Csapo
Download or read book Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World written by Eric Csapo. This book was released on 2022-10-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why did ancient autocrats patronise theatre? How could ancient theatre – rightly supposed to be an artform that developed and flourished under democracy – serve their needs? Plato claimed that poets of tragic drama "drag states into tyranny and democracy". The word order is very deliberate: he goes on to say that tragic poets are honoured "especially by the tyrants, and secondly by the democracies" (Republic 568c). For more than forty years scholars have explored the political, ideological, structural and economic links between democracy and theatre in ancient Greece. By contrast, the links between autocracy and theatre are virtually ignored, despite the fact that for the first 200 years of theatre's existence more than a third of all theatre-states were autocratic. For the next 600 years, theatre flourished almost exclusively under autocratic regimes. The volume brings together experts in ancient theatre to undertake the first systematic study of the patterns of use made of the theatre by tyrants, regents, kings and emperors. Theatre and Autocracy in the Ancient World is the first comprehensive study of the historical circumstances and means by which autocrats turned a medium of mass communication into an instrument of mass control.
Author : Virginia Mastellari
Release : 2021-02-15
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Rating : 987/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Fragments in Context - Frammenti e dintorni by : Virginia Mastellari
Download or read book Fragments in Context - Frammenti e dintorni written by Virginia Mastellari. This book was released on 2021-02-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Die Beiträge des mehrsprachigen Sammelbandes analysieren die »Umgebung« von Fragmenten der griechischen Literatur. Damit sind soziokulturelle und sprachliche Kontexte, dramaturgische Mechanismen sowie Evolutionsprozesse einer literarischen Gattung bis hin zur Rezeption antiker Fragmente gemeint. Dabei gehen sie den Fragen nach, warum, mit welcher Absicht, in welcher Form und in welchem Umfang ein Trägertext ein Fragment zitiert. Der Band eröffnet damit nicht nur der Fragmentforschung unter philologischen und methodologischen Gesichtspunkten neue Wege, sondern erweitert auch das Verständnis der Überlieferungsprozesse antiker Literatur.
