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Platonic drama and its ancient reception /
"As prose dramatic texts Plato's dialogues would have been read by their original audience as an alternative type of theatrical composition. The 'paradox' of the dialogue form is explained by his appropriation of the discourse of theatre, the dominant public mode of communication...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2012.
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| Colección: | Cambridge classical studies.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "As prose dramatic texts Plato's dialogues would have been read by their original audience as an alternative type of theatrical composition. The 'paradox' of the dialogue form is explained by his appropriation of the discourse of theatre, the dominant public mode of communication of his time. The oral performance of his works is suggested both by the pragmatics of the publication of literary texts in the classical period and by his original role as a Sokratic dialogue-writer and the creator of a fourth dramatic genre. Support comes from a number of pieces of evidence, from a statue of Sokrates in the Academy (fourth century BC) to a mosaic of Sokrates in Mytilene (fourth century AD), which point to a centuries-old tradition of treating the dialogues in the context of performance literature and testify to the significance of the image of 'Plato the prose dramatist' for his original and subsequent audiences"-- |
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| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (xxi, 331 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 268-316) and indexes. |
| ISBN: | 9781139336567 1139336568 0511978081 9780511978081 1280773499 9781280773495 1139334069 9781139334068 1107225841 9781107225848 9786613684264 6613684260 1139337432 9781139337434 1139339885 9781139339889 1139341464 9781139341462 1139338307 9781139338301 |