Csapo Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater

1. Auflage 2010
ISBN: 978-1-4443-1804-3
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 248 Seiten, E-Book

Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors andtheir popular reception from the origins of theater in ClassicalGreece to the Roman Empire
* Presents a highly original viewpoint into several new andcontested fields of study
* Offers the first systematic survey of evidence for the spreadof theater outside Athens and the impact of the expansion oftheater upon actors and dramatic literature
* Addresses a study of the privatization of theater and revealshow it was driven by political interests
* Challenges preconceived notions about theater history

Autoren/Hrsg.

Csapo, Eric

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of illustrations vi
Preface viii
List of abbreviations xiii
1 A Portrait of the Artist I: Theater-Realistic Art in Athens,500-330 BC 1
2 A Portrait of the Artist II: Theater-Realistic Art in theGreek West, 400-300 BC 38
3 The Spread of Theater and the Rise of the Actor 83
4 Kallippides on the Floor Sweepings: The Limits of Realism inClassical Acting 117
5 Cooking with Menander: Slices from the Ancient HomeEntertainment Industry? 140
6 The Politics of Privatization: A Short History of thePrivatization of Drama from Classical Athens to Early Imperial Rome168
Bibliography 205
Index 227

Über Autor(innen)

Eric Csapo is Professor of Classics at the University of Sydney, Australia. An expert in ancient drama and in the material, social and economic history of the ancient theatre, Csapo is the author of Theories of Mythology (Wiley-Blackwell, 2005) and co-editor of Context of Ancient Drama (with W. J. Slater, 1995) and The Origins of Theater in Ancient Greece and Elsewhere: From Ritual to Drama (with M. Miller, 2006).