The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy and Comedy
J Michael Walton · 2015
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In The Greek Sense of Theatre, J. Michael Walton proposes that we consider Greek tragedy of the fifth century BC as performance-based, with a visual emphasis overlooked in much classical scholarship. Greek plays have survived as written texts, virtually without stage direction, and because the conditions of the first performance were never recorded, it tends to be assumed that language was the most important feature of the Greek drama. Professor Walton seeks to disprove this idea, expanding this new edition to include the comedies of Aristophenes and Menander as well as the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides.
Book details
- Year
- 2015
- Language
- English
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Editions
- 1
- Pages
- 184
- ISBN
- 9781138857315
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