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Performing Greek Comedy.
A new account of Greek comedy performance from its sixth-century origins to New Comedy, drawing upon fresh visual evidence.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge :
Cambridge University Press,
2011.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; PERFORMING GREEK COMEDY; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; Contents; Illustrations; Preface; CHAPTER 1: Comedy in art, Athens and abroad; THE EVIDENCE; Vases; Figurines; Is this evidence reliable?; FESTIVAL AND COMPETITION; THE PROFESSION OF ACTOR; TOURING; CHAPTER 2: Poets of Old and Middle Comedy; ARCHAIC COMEDY; OLD COMEDY AND FESTIVAL; Magnes; THE SICILIAN CONNECTION; Epicharmos; MATURE OLD COMEDY; Kratinos; Krates; Pherekrates; Eupolis; Aristophanes; Aristophanic comedy; Lost Aristophanes; MIDDLE COMEDY; Professional theatre; Navigating Middle Comedy; Aristophanes' Middle Comedies.
- Decline of the chorus?POETS AND TYPES OF MIDDLE COMEDY; Myth and tragedy upside-down; City comedy; Satire; THE ARCHAEOLOGICAL RECORD; Archaeology, uses and limitations; Vases, changing comic styles; Figurines, stage characters; BEYOND ATHENS; CHAPTER 3: Theatres; ATHENS: THE EARLIEST THEATRE; Orchestra and theatron; Skene; SECOND PHASE, 446-440; THEATRES OUTSIDE ATTICA; Lost theatres; FOURTH-CENTURY STAGES IN THE GREEK WEST; Taras; Paestum; Sicily; ATHENS: THE STONE THEATRE; Theatron and orchestra; Skene; SPECIAL EFFECTS; Ekkyklema; Mechane; Skene painting; CHAPTER 4: The comic chorus.
- EARLY COMEDY IN WRITINGEARLY COMEDY IN PICTURES; Fat men; Archaic choruses; Presenting the chorus; ENTER THE ACTOR; THE CHORUS IN LATER ART; CHORIC DANCE; Formation and size; The chorus in the Greek west; DECLINE OF THE CHORUS?; CHAPTER 5: Music in comedy; THE AULOS; Musicians at festivals; Musicians and convention; MUSICAL LANGUAGE; Choral music; THE NEW MUSIC; SONG AND DANCE; CHAPTER 6: Acting, from lyric to dual consciousness; BEGINNERS ON STAGE; From poet to actor; First comic actors; PLOT AND THE RISING ACTOR; ACTORS IN SOCIETY; CASTING; How many actors?; Doubling opportunities.
- Nothing to do with StanislavskyVOICE, SPEECH, MOVEMENT; AESTHETICS, PROCESS; Believing characters; Transitions; CHAPTER 7: Technique and style of acting comedy; PHYSICAL CHARACTERIZATION; THE EVIDENCE; ATTITUDE, GESTURE; TYPES OF GESTURE; Emblems; Affective gestures; Manipulators; ACTING WOMEN; The maiden; The wife; The crone; PROBLEMS OF INTERPRETATION; Helping the sick; Mistaken identity; Terracotta husbandmen; CHAPTER 8: The masks of comedy; WHAT MASKS WERE LIKE; SIGNIFICANCE OF THE MASK; Spiritual or practical?; Mask and metatheatre; Actor and mask; Symbolism; HOW MASKS WERE MADE; Origins.
- Fabric and plasterWood; MASK TYPES; CHAPTER 9: Costumes of Old and Middle Comedy; CHORUSES; Archaic; Later choruses; THE ACTOR'S UNDERCOSTUME; OUTER COSTUME: EVIDENCE; The comic costume controversy; Evidence in two media; WOMEN'S COSTUME; Tunics; Outerwear: cloaks, headgear; Shoes; MEN'S COSTUME; Tunics; Cloaks; Shoes; Headgear; DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSITION; CHAPTER 10: Comedy and women; IMAGINARY WOMEN; Protagonist roles: Lysistrata, Praxagora; Deities; REAL WOMEN; Women in the audience; Poets; Design and production; WOMEN PERFORMING; Musicians; Women on stage; Mutes; CHAPTER 11: New Comedy.