Page and Stage : : Intersections of Text and Performance in Ancient Greek Drama / / ed. by Stuart Douglas Olson, Oliver Taplin, Piero Totaro.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2023 Part 1
• MitwirkendeR: Csapo, Eric,; Mastromarco, Giuseppe,; Medda, Enrico,; Montana, Fausto,; Olson, S. Douglas,; Orth, Christian,; Revermann, Martin,; Sommerstein, Alan H.,; Taplin, Oliver,; Totaro, Piero,; Zimmermann, Bernhard,
• HerausgeberIn: Olson, Stuart Douglas,; Taplin, Oliver,; Totaro, Piero,
• Place / Publishing House: Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2023]; ©2023
• Year of Publication: 2023
• Language: English
• Series: Trends in Classics - Supplementary Volumes , 146
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (IX, 184 p.)

Our knowledge of the ancient theatre is limited by the textual and iconographic character of the evidence available to us: we cannot watch or otherwise experience an Athenian tragedy or comedy. These essays, by a distinguished group of international scholars, bridge the gap between the surviving lit...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Acknowledgements
• Contents
• List of Figures
• Introduction to Page and Stage
• Dramatic Space and Theatrical Meaning: The Case of Sophocles’ Antigone
• The Inference of Staging from Deictics, with some Pointers towards Sophocles’ Trachiniae
• Divinity on the Classical Greek Stage: Proposing a New Model
• Victory Ritual and the Performance of Victory in Aristophanes’ Exodoi
• Some Staging Issues and Their Consequences in Aristophanes’ Clouds
• Sexy Mutes on the Aristophanic Stage
• Pseudartabas and the Persian Eunuchs in Aristophanes’ Acharnians: Textual and Staging Problems
• Poetics of Props: On Aristophanes, Acharnians 393–489
• Comic Fragments and Lost Dramatic Scenes: Some Considerations
• Dramaturgical Memory and Virtual Theatre in the Scholia to Aristophanes’ Frogs
• No, They Didn’t Write Stage Instructions, but…
• List of Contributors
• Index Locorum
• Index Rerum