Shopping Cart : 1 item
Home   |    Greek Philology  

Comic Business: Theatricality, Dramatic Technique, and Performance Contexts of Aristophanic Comedy

by: Revermann, M.

Price: 95,00 EURO

(in stock)
 
Category: Greek Philology
Code: 7675
ISBN-13: 9780198152712 / 978-0-19-815271-2
ISBN-10: 019815271X / 0-19-815271-X
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Publication Date: 2006
Publication Place: Oxford
Binding: Cloth
Pages: 396
Book Condition: New
Comments: Original Edition, not print on demand

 Comic Business situates Aristophanic comedy in the context of competitive (re)performance culture in 5th- and 4th-century Greece. It seeks to illuminate how the dazzling busyness of Aristophanic comedy is the creation of a carefully manipulating craftsman trying to outdo his rivals in the fierce competition of the dramatic festivals. Theoretically informed by theatre semiotics and frame-based models of conceptualizing the theatrical event, it analyzes in a number of case studies how theatrical resources of all kinds are utilized in order to generate theatrical meaning as well as capture and sustain audience interest. The approach therefore combines philological analysis with methodologies developed in Theatre Studies. Special attention is given to the visual dimension of theatrical communication. Material from comparator traditions is brought to bear, as is the evidence of the pictorial record.

I. Issues
1:Comic business
2:Performance criticism: point and methods
3:Two fundamental problems
4:Applying performance criticism
II. Three plays
5:Clouds
6:Lysistrata
7:Wealth

 
  Already viewed

Comic Business: Theatricality, Dramatic Technique, and Performance Contexts of Aristophanic Comedy

by: Revermann, M.

  • ISBN-13: 9780198152712 / 978-0-19-815271-2
  • ISBN-03: 019815271X / 0-19-815271-X
  • Oxford University Press, Oxford, 2006

Price: 95,00 EURO

(in stock)