Theatre and Metatheatre : definitions, problems, limits

Theatre and Metatheatre definitions, problems, limits

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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Otros Autores: Paillard, Elodie, editor (editor), Milanezi, Silvia, editor
Formato: Libro electrónico
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Berlin : De Gruyter [2021]
Colección:MythosEikonPoiesis ; Band 11.
Materias:
Greek drama > History and criticism.
Play within a play.
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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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