The Theatrical Cast of Athens : Interactions between Ancient Greek Drama and Society.
Title:
The Theatrical Cast of Athens : Interactions between Ancient Greek Drama and Society.
Author:
Hall, Edith.
ISBN:
9780191516436
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (494 pages)
Contents:
Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Abbreviations -- 1. Introduction -- 2. The Theatrical Roles of Athens -- 3. Childbearing Women: Birth and Family Crisis in Ancient Drama -- 4. Visible Women: Painted Masks and Tragic Aesthetics -- 5. Horny Satyrs and Tragic Tetralogies -- 6. Female Personifications of Poetry in Old Comedy -- 7. Recasting the Barbarian -- 8. The Scythian Archer in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae -- 9. Drowning Act: The Greeks, Swimming, and Timotheus' Persians -- 10. Singing Roles in Tragedy -- 11. Casting the role of Trygaeus in Aristophanes' Peace -- 12. Lawcourt Dramas: Acting and Performance in Legal Oratory -- Afterword -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- X -- Z.
Abstract:
An examination of ancient Greek drama, and its relationship to the society in which it was produced. By focusing on the ways in which the plays treat gender, ethnicity, and class, and on their theatrical conventions, Edith Hall offers an extended study of the Greek theatrical masterpieces within their original social context.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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