Theatre and Metatheatre : : Definitions, Problems, Limits /

Theatre and Metatheatre : : Definitions, Problems, Limits / / ed. by Silvia Milanezi, Elodie Paillard.

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The aim of this book is to explore the definition(s) of 'theatre' and 'metatheatre' that scholars use when studying the ancient Greek world. Although in modern languages their meaning is mostly straightforward, both concepts become problematical when applied to ancient reality. I...

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Funder:
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
MitwirkendeR:
Bierl, Anton,
Brillet-Dubois, Pascale,
Capponi, Matteo,
Di Virgilio, Loredana,
Duncan, Anne,
Giannotti, Andrea,
Milanezi, Silvia,
Paillard, Elodie,
Ruch, Emilie,
Skotheim, Mali,
Taplin, Oliver,
Vespa, Marco,
HerausgeberIn:
Milanezi, Silvia,
Paillard, Elodie,
:
Schweizerischer Nationalfonds (SNF)
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2021]
©2021
Year of Publication:2021
Language:English
Series:MythosEikonPoiesis Ser.
Physical Description:1 online resource (IX, 308 p.)
Notes:Description based upon print version of record.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Acknowledgements
  • Contents
  • '"Theatre", "Paratheatre", "Metatheatre": What Are We Talking About?'
  • Theatre and Paratheatre
  • Definitions and Limits of Theatrical Performances
  • 'Diffused Performance and Core Performance of Greek Theatre'
  • '(Un)Masking the πόλις: The Pre-Play Ceremonies of the Athenian Great Dionysia as Theatrical Performances?'
  • 'Greek to Latin and Back: Did Roman Theatre Change Greek Theatre?'
  • Paratheatre
  • 'Defining Paratheatre, From Grotowski to Antiquity'
  • Metatheatre
  • Theoretical Aspects
  • 'New Thoughts on Metatheatre in Attic Drama: Self-Referentiality, Ritual and Performativity as Total Theatre'
  • Performative Aspects
  • 'A Gesture That Reveals Itself As a Gesture: Thinking About the Metatheatricality of the Body in Greek Tragedy'
  • Case Studies
  • Tragedy
  • 'Metatheatre and Dramaturgical Innovation: A Study of Recognition Scenes in Euripides' Tragedies Electra, Helen, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Ion'
  • 'The Mask of Troy: Metatheatre in the Prologue and Final kommos of Euripides' Troades'
  • Aristophanes, Old Comedy
  • 'Animal Metaphors and Metadrama. A Cultural Insight into the Verb πιθηκίζειν'
  • 'Ar. Eccl. 889 ὅμως ἔχει τερπνόν τι καὶ κωμῳδικόν. A Comedy's Self- Consideration of Its Lyrical Forms at the Dawn of "Middle Comedy"?'
  • Mimes
  • 'Mime and Metatheatre'
  • Abbreviations
  • Bibliography
  • List of Contributors
  • Index verborum
  • Index locorum

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