A cultural history of theatre in antiquity

Parallelsachtitel: In antiquity
Weitere Verfasser: Revermann, Martin , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: London ; New York : Bloomsbury Academic, 2020.
Umfang/Format: x, 254 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Cultural history of theatre ; 1
Schlagworte:
Parallelausgabe: A cultural history of theatre (Print version)
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Introduction: cultural history and the theatres of antiquity / Martin Revermann
  • Institutional frameworks: enabling the theatrical event
  • Martin Revermann
  • Social functions? making the case for a functionless theatre / Sean Gurd
  • Sexuality and gender: off-stage and centre-stage / Ian Ruffell
  • The environment of theatre: experiencing place in the ancient world / David Wiles
  • Circulation: theatre as mobile political, economic and cultural capital / Patrick Hadley
  • Interpretations: the stage and its interpretive communities / Martin Revermann
  • Communities of production: pied pipers and how to pay them; or, the variegated finance of ancient theatre / Jane Lightfoot
  • Genres: drama and its many unhappy returns / Donald Sells
  • Technologies of performance: machines, props, dramaturgy / Peter Von Möllendorff ; (translated from German by Martin Revermann)
  • Knowledge transmission: ancient archives and repertoires / Johanna Hanink.