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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 | : 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 | : Mary Louise Hart |
Publisher | : Getty Publications |
Total Pages | : 180 |
Release | : 2010 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1606060376 |
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An explanation of Greek theater as seen through its many depictions in classical art
Author | : Angela M. Heap |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing |
Total Pages | : 211 |
Release | : 2019-06-13 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1472528093 |
Download Behind the Mask Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
This new study of Menander casts fresh light not only on the techniques of the playwright but also on the literary and historical contexts of the plays. Menander (342/1-292/1 BCE) wrote over a hundred popular comedies, several of which were adapted by Plautus and Terence. Through them, he was a major influence on Shakespeare and Molière. However, his work survived only in excerpts and quotation until some significant texts reappeared in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries on papyrus. The mystery of their loss and rediscovery has raised key questions surrounding the transmission of these and other Greek texts. Theatrical masks from the fourth century BCE discovered on the island of Lipari now also provide important material with which this book examines how the plays were originally performed. A detailed investigation of their historical setting is offered which engages with recent debates on the importance of social status and citizenship in Menander's plays. The techniques of characterization are also examined, with particular focus on women, slaves and power relationships in his Epitrepontes. It appears that the audience was invited, sometimes subversively, behind the mask of this sophisticated comedy to discover that people do not always conform to literary expectations and social norms.
Author | : Aristophanes |
Publisher | : Methuen Drama |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1994-03-14 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : |
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Contains: Women in power; Wealth; The malcontent; The woman from Samos.
Author | : David Wiles |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 308 |
Release | : 2004-06-03 |
Genre | : Crafts & Hobbies |
ISBN | : 9780521543521 |
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An examination of the conventions and techniques of the Greek theatre of Menander and subsequent Roman theatre.
Author | : Richard L. Hunter |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 200 |
Release | : 1985-07-11 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780521316521 |
Download The New Comedy of Greece and Rome Book in PDF, ePub and Kindle
The first literary account of a style of comic drama which was to become the root of all subsequent Western comedy. Places the social comedy of Menander, Plautus and Terence in its ancient context and considers its universal literary qualities.