Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre
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Father Creon
Formal Trial
Foul Gathering
Golden Fleece
Greek Actors
Greek Theatre
Greek Tragedy
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Intertwining Functions
libation
Libation Bearers
Literary Convenience
Magico Religious Activity
Picture Frame Stage
practical staging of Greek drama
Prometheus Bound
Quarrel Scene
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Rural Dionysia
Satyr Play
Stoa Poikile
Superb
Talent Reward
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Vice Versa
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9780415062992
- Weight: 294g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 30 May 1991
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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Peter Arnott discusses Greek drama not as an antiquarian study but as a living art form. He removes the plays from the library and places them firmly in the theatre that gave them being. Invoking the practical realities of stagecraft, he illuminates the literary patterns of the plays, the performance disciplines, and the audience responses.
Each component of the productions - audience, chorus, actors, costume, speech - is examined in the context of its own society and of theatre practice in general, with examples from other cultures. Professor Arnott places great emphasis on the practical staging of Greek plays, and how the buildings themselves imposed particular constraints on actors and writers alike. Above all, he sets out to make practical sense of the construction of Greek plays, and their organic relationship to their original setting.
