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Reperforming Greek Tragedy : Theater, Politics, and Cultural Mobility in the Fifth and Fourth Centuries BC / Anna A. Lamari.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes ; 52Publisher: Berlin ; Boston : De Gruyter, [2017]Copyright date: ©2017Description: 1 online resource (IX, 198 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9783110559866
  • 9783110559934
  • 9783110561166
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 882/.0109 23
LOC classification:
  • PA3131 .L28 2017
  • PA3131 .L28 2018
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
Online resources: Available additional physical forms:
  • Issued also in print.
Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Traveling poets in Attica and beyond -- 2. Reperformances in a political context -- 3. Tragic reperformances and traveling actors -- 4. Reperformances and Vase-painting -- Conclusions -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- Bibliography -- List of Plates/Image Credits -- Plates -- General Index -- Index of Passages
Summary: An inexplicably understudied field of classical scholarship, tragic reperformance, has been surveyed in its true dimension only in the very recent years. Building on the latest discussions on tragic restagings, this book provides a thorough survey of reperformance of Greek tragedy in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, also addressing its theatrical, political, and cultural context. In the fifth and fourth centuries, tragic restagings were strongly tied to cultural mobility and exchange. Poets, actors, texts, vases, and vase-painters were traveling, bridging the boundaries between mainland Greece and Magna Graecia, boosting the spread of theater, facilitating theatrical literacy, and setting a new theatrical status quo, according to which popular tragic plays were restaged, by mobile actors, in numerous dramatic festivals, in and out of Attica, with or without the supervision of their composers. This book offers a holistic examination of ancient reperformances of tragedy, enhancing our perception of them as a vital theatrical practice that played a major part in the development of the tragic genre in the fifth and fourth centuries BC.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- 1. Traveling poets in Attica and beyond -- 2. Reperformances in a political context -- 3. Tragic reperformances and traveling actors -- 4. Reperformances and Vase-painting -- Conclusions -- Abbreviations and Conventions -- Bibliography -- List of Plates/Image Credits -- Plates -- General Index -- Index of Passages

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An inexplicably understudied field of classical scholarship, tragic reperformance, has been surveyed in its true dimension only in the very recent years. Building on the latest discussions on tragic restagings, this book provides a thorough survey of reperformance of Greek tragedy in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, also addressing its theatrical, political, and cultural context. In the fifth and fourth centuries, tragic restagings were strongly tied to cultural mobility and exchange. Poets, actors, texts, vases, and vase-painters were traveling, bridging the boundaries between mainland Greece and Magna Graecia, boosting the spread of theater, facilitating theatrical literacy, and setting a new theatrical status quo, according to which popular tragic plays were restaged, by mobile actors, in numerous dramatic festivals, in and out of Attica, with or without the supervision of their composers. This book offers a holistic examination of ancient reperformances of tragedy, enhancing our perception of them as a vital theatrical practice that played a major part in the development of the tragic genre in the fifth and fourth centuries BC.

Issued also in print.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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