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Author | : Antonis K. Petrides |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2014-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316195090 |
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This book argues that New Comedy has a far richer performance texture than has previously been recognised. Offering close readings of all the major plays of Menander, it shows how intertextuality - the sustained dialogue of New Comedy performance with the diverse ideological, philosophical, literary and theatrical discourses of contemporary polis culture - is crucial in creating semantic depth and thus offsetting the impression that the plots are simplistic love stories with no political or ideological resonances. It also explores how the visual aspect of the plays ('opsis') is just as important as any verbal means of signification - a phenomenon termed 'intervisuality', examining in particular depth the ways in which the mask can infuse various systems of reference into the play. Masks like the panchrēstos neaniskos (the 'all-perfect youth'), for example, are now full of meaning; thus, with their ideologically marked physiognomies, they can be strong instigators of literary and cultural allusion.
Author | : Antonis K. Petrides |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2014-11-06 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107068436 |
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This book shows how both verbal and visual allusion position the plays of New Comedy within the context of contemporary polis culture.
Author | : Sebastiana Nervegna |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 335 |
Release | : 2013-04-25 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 110732825X |
Download Menander in Antiquity Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The comic playwright Menander was one of the most popular writers throughout antiquity. This book reconstructs his life and the legacy of his work until the end of antiquity employing a broad range of sources such as portraits, illustrations of his plays, papyri preserving their texts and inscriptions recording their public performances. These are placed within the context of the three social and cultural institutions which appropriated his comedy, thereby ensuring its survival: public theatres, dinner parties and schools. Dr Nervegna carefully reconstructs how each context approached Menander's drama and how it contributed to its popularity over the centuries. The resultant, highly illustrated, book will be essential for all scholars and students not just of Menander's comedy but, more broadly, of the history and iconography of the ancient theatre, ancient social history and reception studies.
Author | : Martin Revermann |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 523 |
Release | : 2014-06-12 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0521760283 |
Download The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This book provides a unique panorama of this challenging area of Greek literature, combining literary perspectives with historical issues and material culture.
Author | : Antonis Petrides |
Publisher | : Cambridge Scholars Publishing |
Total Pages | : 229 |
Release | : 2020-05-15 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 152755158X |
Download New Perspectives on Postclassical Comedy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
PIERIDES II, Series Editors: Philip Hardie and Stratis Kyriakidis The re-emergence of Menander from the landfills of Egypt in the late-19th century and the subsequent discovery of the Bodmer Codex in the 1950s caused a sensation among scholars. After a period in which the primary editing and reconstruction of the substantially preserved plays and fragments was the main line of criticism, scholars were finally in a position to take a deep breath and look at Menander and New Comedy, both Greek and Roman, in wider contexts of interpretation and with fresh perspectives drawn from innovative work both in Classical and more modern studies. This book aims to showcase these new approaches to postclassical comedy. The individual contributions, six in total, approach New Comedy as theatrical performance, but also as a dynamic player in the socio-political discourses of the polis culture that gave birth to it. The chapters highlight continuities as well as discontinuities with the cultural and literary past of Athens and the Greek world, but mostly emphasise the progressiveness of New Comedy as a genre and its importance for the nascent culture of Hellenism and Rome thereafter. Blume’s introductory chapter tells the story of Menander’s re-emergence from the tenebrae in full detail. The other five chapters are dual in nature: expositional of a method, but also practical examples of it. They are arranged in a fashion which underlines the major theoretical underpinnings of New Comedy studies, as they are being developed in the present: Cultural Studies (David Konstan and Susan Lape), Intertextuality and Performance (Antonis K. Petrides and Rosanna Omitowoju), and Reception in Rome (Sophia Papaioannou).
Author | : David Wiles |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2004-06-03 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780521543521 |
Download The Masks of Menander Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An examination of the conventions and techniques of the Greek theatre of Menander and subsequent Roman theatre.
Author | : J Michael Walton |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 202 |
Release | : 2015-05-22 |
Genre | : Performing Arts |
ISBN | : 1317513967 |
Download The Greek Sense of Theatre Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
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 seen now as a performance-based rather than a strictly literary medium, more attention should still be paid to the nature of stage image and masked acting as part of this conception.
Author | : Thomas Bertram Lonsdale Webster |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Comedy) |
ISBN | : |
Download Monuments Illustrating New Comedy Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
Author | : Mary Louise Hart |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1606060376 |
Download The Art of Ancient Greek Theater Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
An explanation of Greek theater as seen through its many depictions in classical art
Author | : Carsten Wilke |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 178 |
Release | : 2017-04-10 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 3110498871 |
Download Farewell to Shulamit Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The Song of Songs, a lyric cycle of love scenes without a narrative plot, has often been considered as the Bible’s most beautiful and enigmatic book. The present study questions the still dominant exegetical convention that merges all of the Song’s voices into the dialogue of a single couple, its composite heroine Shulamit being a projection screen for norms of womanhood. An alternative socio-spatial reading, starting with the Hebrew text’s strophic patterns and its references to historical realia, explores the poem’s artful alternation between courtly, urban, rural, and pastoral scenes with their distinct characters. The literary construction of social difference juxtaposes class-specific patterns of consumption, mobility, emotion, power structures, and gender relations. This new image of the cycle as a detailed poetic frieze of ancient society eventually leads to a precise hypothesis concerning its literary and religious context in the Hellenistic age, as well as its geographical origins in the multiethnic borderland east of the Jordan. In a Jewish echo of anthropological skepticism, the poem emphasizes the plurality and relativity of the human condition while praising the communicative powers of pleasure, fantasy, and multifarious Eros.