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  title info:
    title: Performing gods in classical antiquity and the age of Shakespeare
  name:
    name part: Dixon, Dustin W.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  name:
    name part: Garrison, John S.
    name part: 1970-
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: enk
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 197 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
  abstract: The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of mortals playing gods but also the nature of theatrical spectacle itself. The very impossibility of rendering the gods in all their divine splendor in a truly convincing way lies at the intersection of divine power and the power of the theater. This book pursues these dynamics on the stages of ancient Athens and Rome as well on those of Renaissance England to shed new light on theatrical performance. The authors reveal how gods appear onstage both to astound and to dramatize the very machinations by which theatrical performance operates. Offering an array of case studies featuring both canonical and lesser-studied texts, this volume discusses work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Plautus as well as Beaumont, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe and Shakespeare. This book uniquely brings together the joint perspectives of two experts on classical and Renaissance drama. This volume will appeal to students and enthusiasts of literature, classics, theater and performance studies.
  table of contents: The gods take stage -- Approaching divinity -- Under the actor's spell: audiences in Euripides' Helen and Marlowe's Doctor Faustus -- An actor ascends: status and identity in Plautus' Amphitruo and the the Court Masque -- Authoring gods in Aeschylus' Oresteia and Shakespeare's Hamlet -- To die is human, to perform divine -- Entertainting Gods in Zimmerman's Metamophoses.
  note: Dustin W. Dixon and John S. Garrison.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
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  subject:
    topic: Theater
    geographic: Greece
    topic: History
    temporal: To 500
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    geographic: Rome
    topic: History
    temporal: To 500
  subject:
    topic: Gods in literature
  subject:
    topic: Classical drama
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 16th century
  subject:
    topic: Theater
    geographic: Great Britain
    topic: History
    temporal: 17th century
  subject:
    topic: English drama
    temporal: Early modern and Elizabethan, 1500-1600
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: English drama
    temporal: 17th century
    topic: History and criticism
  subject:
    topic: Renaissance
    geographic: England
  subject:
    topic: Mythology, Classical, in literature
  classification: PA3203 .D59 2021
  classification: 792.0938
  identifier: 9781350098145
  identifier: 1350098140
  identifier: 9781350098152
  identifier: 9781350098169
  identifier: 2021004143
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210216
    record change date: 20230619132412.6
    record identifier: in00004549081