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Record Nr.

UNISA996203975803316

Autore

Hall Edith <1959->

Titolo

The theatrical cast of Athens [[electronic resource] ] : interactions between ancient Greek drama and society / / Edith Hall

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2006

ISBN

9786610845279

1-280-84527-9

0-19-151643-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (494 p.)

Disciplina

792.0938

792.09385

882.01

Soggetti

Greek drama - History and criticism

Theater - Greece - Athens - History - To 500

Electronic books.

Athens (Greece) Social life and customs

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [400]-454) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Illustrations; Abbreviations; 1. Introduction; 2. The Theatrical Roles of Athens; 3. Childbearing Women: Birth and Family Crisis in Ancient Drama; 4. Visible Women: Painted Masks and Tragic Aesthetics; 5. Horny Satyrs and Tragic Tetralogies; 6. Female Personifications of Poetry in Old Comedy; 7. Recasting the Barbarian; 8. The Scythian Archer in Aristophanes' Thesmophoriazusae; 9. Drowning Act: The Greeks, Swimming, and Timotheus' Persians; 10. Singing Roles in Tragedy; 11. Casting the role of Trygaeus in Aristophanes' Peace

12. Lawcourt Dramas: Acting and Performance in Legal OratoryAfterword; Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; Q; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Z

Sommario/riassunto

An examination of ancient Greek drama, and its relationship to the society in which it was produced. By focusing on the ways in which the plays treat gender, ethnicity, and class, and on their theatrical conventions, Edith Hall offers an extended study of the Greek theatrical masterpieces within their original social context. - ;In this pioneering



study Edith Hall explores the numerous different ways in which we can understand the relationship between the real, social world in which the Athenians lived and the theatrical roles that they invented. In twelve studies of role types and the theatri