Ancient Greek and contemporary performance : collected essays /: collected essays. (2015)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Graham Ley.
• Authors: Ley, Graham
• Contents: ; Introduction ; ; Section A: Greek theatre and theory ; ; Preface ; ; 1. "Hypokrinesthai in Homer and Herodotus, and the Function of the Athenian Actor", Philologus 127.1 (1983); ; 2. "Performance and Performatives", Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 13.1 (1998); ; 3. “Monody, Choral Song, and Athenian Festival Performance", Maia xlv.2 (1993); ; 4. “The Presence of the Chorus”, unpublished essay developed from a paper given at a conference at Northwestern University, Chicago, October 2010; ; Section B: Greek theatre practice ; ; Preface ; ; 5. Graham Ley and Michael Ewans, "The orchestra as Acting-area in Greek Tragedy", Ramus 14.2 (1985); ; 6. "Performance Studies and Greek Tragedy", Eranos 92 (1994); ; 7. “The Nameless and the Named: Techne and Technology in the Ancient Athenian Theatre”, Performance Research 10.4 (2005); ; Section C: Performance theory ; ; Preface ; ; 8. "Sacred Idiocy: the Avant-garde as Alternative Establishment", New Theatre Quarterly 28 (1991); ; 9. "The Rhetoric of Theory: the Role of Metaphor in Peter Brook's The Empty Space ", New Theatre Quarterly 35 (1993); ; 10. "Richard Schechner's `The Future of Ritual': the Final Chapter", Performance Research 3.3 `On Ritual' (1998); ; 11. "Aristotle's Poetics, Bharatamuni's Natyasastra, and Zeami's Treatises: Theory as Discourse", Asian Theatre Journal 17.2 (2000); ; 12. "Theatrical Modernism: A Problematic", in A.Eysteinsson and V.Liska (eds.)A Comparative History of Literature in European Languages: Modernism . Amsterdam: John Benjamins, (2007); ; 13. “Discursive Embodiment: The Theatre as Adaptation”, Journal of Adaptation in Film and Performance 2.3 (2009); ; 14. “The Critical Absence of a Postmodern Reception Theory of Live Performance”, unpublished editorial contribution to Baz Kershaw and Graham Ley (eds.), “Beyond Postmodernism”, Contemporary Theatre Review 3.18 (2008); ; Section D: Diaspora theatre ; ; Preface ; ; 15. “Composing a History: Problematics of the British Asian Research Project at Exeter”, Studies in Theatre and Performance 30.2 (2010); ; 16. “Theatre and Diversity” – unpublished English-language version of the paper delivered in Cologne and published in W.Schneider Theater und Migration: Herausforderung fur Kulturpolitik und Theaterpraxis. Bielefeld: Transcript, (2011); ; 17. “Diaspora Space, the Regions, and British Asian Theatre”, New Theatre Quarterly 107 (2011); ; Conclusion ;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: Exeter : University of Exeter Press
• Publication Date: 2015
• Extent: 1 online resource
• Subjects: 792; Theater -- Greece -- History -- To 500; Theater -- History -- 21st century; Performing arts
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780859899833
• Related ISBNs: 9780859898911
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