Contents |
List of illustrations -- Proagôn -- Prologue -- Part I: The Athenians and their Theatre -- The Critic -- The Playgoers -- The Stage -- The Performers -- Part II: The Playmakers: Tragedy -- Aeschylus -- Sophocles -- Euripides: the tragedies -- Euripides: the comedies -- Part III: The Playmakers: Comedy -- Old Comedy: Aristophanes -- New Comedy: Menander -- Epilogue -- Select bibliography -- Index. |
Summary |
In The Greek Sense of Theatre, J. Michael Walton proposes that we consider Greek tragedy of the fifth century BC as performance-based, with a visual emphasis overlooked in much classical scholarship. Greek plays have survived as written texts, virtually without stage direction, and because the conditions of the first performance were never recorded, it tends to be assumed that language was the most important feature of the Greek drama. Professor Walton seeks to disprove this idea, expanding this new edition to include the comedies of Aristophenes and Menander as well as the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides. |
General note | Original copyright: 1996. |
Bibliography note | Includes bibliographical references (pages 159-161) and index. |
Genre/form | Criticism, interpretation, etc. |
Genre/form | History. |
LCCN | 2014044300 |
ISBN | 9781138857315 hardback |
ISBN | 1138857319 hardback |
ISBN | 9781138857339 paperback |
ISBN | 1138857335 paperback |
ISBN | electronic bk. |
ISBN | 1315718766 |
ISBN | 9781315718767 |
Standard identifier# |
40025045305 |