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

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Graham Ley.
• Authors: Ley, Graham
• Contents: Ancient Greek And Contemporary Performance; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part One: Greek Theatre and Theory; Preface; 1. Hypokrinesthai in Homer and Herodotus, and the Function of the Athenian Actor; 2. Performance and Performatives; 3. Monody, Choral Song, and Athenian Festival Performance; 4. The Presence of the Chorus in Greek Tragedy; Part Two: Greek Theatre Practice; Preface; 5. Graham Ley and Michael Ewans, 'The Orchestra as Acting Area in Greek Tragedy'; 6. Performance Studies and Greek Tragedy. 7. The Nameless and the Named: Techne and Technology in Ancient Athenian TheatrePart Three: Performance Theory; Preface; 8. Sacred Idiocy: The Avant-garde as Alternative Establishment; 9. The Rhetoric of Theory: The Role of Metaphor in Peter Brook's The Empty Space; 10. Richard Schechner's The Future of Ritual: The Final Chapter; 11. Aristotle's Poetics, Bharatamuni's Natyasastra, and Zeami's Treatises: Theory as Discourse; 12. Theatrical Modernism: A Problematic; 13. Discursive Embodiment: The Theatre as Adaptation. 14. The Critical Absence of a Postmodern Reception Theory of Live PerformancePart Four: Diaspora Theatre; Preface; 15. Composing a History: Problematics of the British Asian Research Project at Exeter; 16. Theatre and Diversity; 17. Diaspora Space, the Regions, and British Asian Theatre; Conclusion; Notes; Index.
• 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; Théâtre -- Grèce -- Histoire -- Jusqu'à 500; Théâtre -- Histoire -- 21e siècle; Arts du spectacle; Performing arts; Theater; Greece; History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780859899833; 0859899837; 9780859898911; 0859898911
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