Performance in Greek and Roman theatre / / edited by George W. M. Harrison, Vayos Liapis.

• TeilnehmendeR: Harrison, George William Mallory.; Liapis, Vayos.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 353.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (601 p.)
• Notes: Description based upon print version of record.

In recent years, classicists have begun aggressively to explore the impact of performance on the ways in which Greek and Roman plays are constructed and appreciated, both in their original performance context and in reperformances down to the present day. While never losing sight of the playscripts, it is necessary to adopt a more inclusive point of view, one integrating insights from archaeology, art, history, performance theory, theatre semiotics, theatrical praxis, and modern performance reception. This volume contributes to the restoration of a much-needed balance between performance and text: it is devoted to exploring how performance-related considerations (including stage business, masks, costumes, props, performance space, and stage-sets) help us attain an enhanced appreciation of ancient theatre.

Table of Contents

Front Matter / George W.M. Harrison and Vayos Liapis -- Making Sense of Ancient Performance / Vayos Liapis , Costas Panayotakis and George W.M. Harrison -- The Misunderstanding of Opsis in Aristotle’s Poetics / G.M. Sifakis -- Propping Up Greek Tragedy: The Right Use of Opsis / David Konstan -- Generalizing about Props: Greek Drama, Comparator Traditions, and the Analysis of Stage Objects / Martin Revermann -- Actors’ Properties in Ancient Greek Drama: An Overview / Rob Tordoff -- Skenographia in Brief / Jocelyn Penny Small -- Aeschylean Opsis / A.J. Podlecki -- Theatricality and Voting in Eumenides: “ΨΗΦΟΝ Δ’ ΟΡΕΣΤΗΙ ΤΗΝΔ’ ΕΓΩ ΠΡΟΣΘΗΣΟΜΑΙ” / Geoffrey W. Bakewell -- Under Athena’s Gaze: Aeschylus’ Eumenides and the Topography of Opsis / Peter Meineck -- Heracles’ Costume from Euripides’ Heracles to Pantomime Performance / Rosie Wyles -- Weapons of Friendship: Props in Sophocles’ Philoctetes and Ajax / Judith Fletcher -- Skēnē, Altar and Image in Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians / Robert C. Ketterer -- Staging Rhesus / Vayos Liapis -- Three Actors in Old Comedy, Again / C.W. Marshall -- ‘The Odeion on His Head’: Costume and Identity in Cratinus’ Thracian Women fr. 73, and Cratinus’ techniques of political satire / Jeffrey S. Rusten -- Rehearsing Aristophanes / Graham Ley -- Haven’t I Seen You before Somewhere? Optical Allusions in Republican Tragedy / Robert Cowan -- Anicius vortit barbare: The Scenic Games of L. Anicius Gallus and the Aesthetics of Greek and Roman Performance / George Fredric Franko -- Otium, Opulentia and Opsis: Setting, Performance and Perception Within the mise-en-scène of the Roman House / Richard Beacham -- Towards a Roman Theory of Theatrical Gesture / Dorota Dutsch -- Lucian’s On Dance and the Poetics of the Pantomime Mask / A.K. Petrides -- Pantomime: Visualising Myth in the Roman Empire / Edith Hall -- Stringed Instruments in Fifth-Century Drama / George A. Kovacs -- Bloody (Stage) Business: Matthias Langhoff’s Sparagmos of Euripides’ Bacchae (1997) / Gonda Van Steen -- From Sculpture to Vase-Painting: Archaeological Models for the Actor / Fiona Macintosh -- Bibliography / George W.M. Harrison and Vayos Liapis -- Indexes / George W.M. Harrison and Vayos Liapis.