The Greek sense of theatre : tragedy and comedy reviewed /
In The Greek Sense of Theatre, J. Michael Walton proposes that we consider Greek tragedy of the fifth century BC as performance-based, with a visual emphasis overlooked in much classical scholarship. Greek plays have survived as written texts, virtually without stage direction, and because the condi...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY :
Routledge,
2015.
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| Edition: | Third edition. |
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| Summary: | In The Greek Sense of Theatre, J. Michael Walton proposes that we consider Greek tragedy of the fifth century BC as performance-based, with a visual emphasis overlooked in much classical scholarship. Greek plays have survived as written texts, virtually without stage direction, and because the conditions of the first performance were never recorded, it tends to be assumed that language was the most important feature of the Greek drama. Professor Walton seeks to disprove this idea, expanding this new edition to include the comedies of Aristophenes and Menander as well as the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. |
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| Item Description: | Original copyright: 1996. |
| Physical Description: | xvii, 166 pages ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-161) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781138857315 1138857319 9781138857339 1138857335 1315718766 9781315718767 |