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Classical drama on the modern stage as a cultural and political phenomenon is scholarly trailed since the 1950s and 60s and intensified in the last third of the twentieth century. The evidence is being extensively documented, pioneered by Walton (1987) an

Greek drama --- Classical drama --- Modern presentation. --- History and criticism. --- Presentation, Modern --- Presentation, Modern.

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In recent years, classicists have begun aggressively to explore the impact of performance on the ways in which Greek and Roman plays are constructed and appreciated, both in their original performance context and in reperformances down to the present day. While never losing sight of the playscripts, it is necessary to adopt a more inclusive point of view, one integrating insights from archaeology, art, history, performance theory, theatre semiotics, theatrical praxis, and modern performance reception. This volume contributes to the restoration of a much-needed balance between performance and text: it is devoted to exploring how performance-related considerations (including stage business, masks, costumes, props, performance space, and stage-sets) help us attain an enhanced appreciation of ancient theatre.

Classical literature --- Theatrical science --- Drama --- Antiquity --- Theater --- Classical drama --- Théâtre --- Théâtre ancien --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- History --- History and criticism. --- Technique. --- Histoire --- Histoire et critique --- Technique --- History and criticism --- Théâtre --- Théâtre ancien --- Théâtre (Genre littéraire) --- Theater - Greece - History - To 500 --- Theater - Rome - History - To 500 --- Classical drama - History and criticism --- Drama - Technique

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This volume collects papers on pragmatic perspectives on ancient theatre. Scholars working on literature, linguistics, theatre will find interesting insights on verbal and non-verbal uses of language in ancient Greek and Roman Drama. Comedies and Tragedies spanning from 5th B.C.E. to 1st C.E. are investigated in terms of im/politeness, theory of mind, interpersonal pragmatics, body language, to name some of the approaches which afford new interpretations of difficult textual passages or shed new light into nuances of characterisation, or possibilities of performance. Words, silence, gestures, do things, all the more so in dramatic dialogues on stage.

Classical literature. --- Literature, Classical --- Literature --- Literature, Ancient --- Greek literature --- Latin literature --- Literary studies: classical, early & medieval --- Classical drama --- Gesture in literature --- Interpersonal communication --- Language and languages in literature --- Pragmatics --- Rhetoric, Ancient --- Speech acts (Linguistics) --- Theater --- History and criticism --- History

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Unlike the contrast between the sacred and the taboo, the opposition of "comic" and "tragic" is not a way of categorizing experience that we find in cultures all over the world or even at different periods in Western civilization. Though medieval writers and readers distinguished stories with happy endings from stories with unhappy endings, it was not until the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries--fifteen hundred years after Sophocles, Euripides, Plautus, and Terence had last been performed in the theaters of the Roman Empire--that tragedy and comedy regained their ancient importance as ways of giving dramatic coherence to human events. Ancient Scripts and Modern Experience on the English Stage charts that rediscovery, not in the pages of scholars' books, but on the stages of England's schools, colleges, inns of court, and royal court, and finally in the public theaters of sixteenth-and seventeenth-century London.In bringing to imaginative life the scripts, eyewitness accounts, and financial records of these productions, Bruce Smith turns to the structuralist models that anthropologists have used to explain how human beings as social creatures organize and systematize experience. He sets in place the critical, physical, and social structures in which sixteenth-and seventeenth-century Englishmen watched productions of classical comedy and classical tragedy. Seen in these three contexts, these productions play out a conflict between classical and medieval ways of understanding and experiencing comedy's interplay between satiric and romantic impulses and tragedy's clash between individuals and society.Originally published in 1988.The Princeton Legacy Library uses the latest print-on-demand technology to again make available previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original texts of these important books while presenting them in durable paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University Press since its founding in 1905.

Comedy. --- Tragedy. --- Theater --- Classical drama --- Comic literature --- Literature, Comic --- Drama --- Wit and humor --- History --- Appreciation --- Great Britain --- Rome --- Greece --- Civilization --- Roman influences. --- Greek influences. --- Comedy --- Tragedy --- 820-2 "15/16" --- 820-2 "15/16" Engelse literatuur: toneel; drama--?"15/16" --- Engelse literatuur: toneel; drama--?"15/16" --- Theatrical science --- anno 1500-1799

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Questions of ethnic and cultural identities are central to the contemporary understanding of the Roman world. The expansion of Rome across Italy, the Mediterranean, and beyond entailed encounters with a wide range of peoples. Many of these had well-established pre-conquest ethnic identities which can be compared with Roman perceptions of them. In other cases, the ethnicity of peoples conquered by Rome has been perceived almost entirely through the lenses of Roman ethnographic writing and administrative structures. The formation of such identities, and the shaping of these identities by Rome, was a vital part of the process of Roman imperialism. Comparisons across the empire reveal some similarities in the processes of identity formation during and after the period of Roman conquest, but they also reveal a considerable degree of diversity and localisation in interactions between Romans and others. This volume explores how these practices of ethnic categorisation formed part of Roman strategies of control, and how people living in particular places internalised them and developed their own senses of belonging to an ethnic community. It includes both regional studies and thematic approaches by leading scholars in the field--Publisher website.

Greek drama --- Latin drama --- Reader-response criticism. --- Classical drama --- Théâtre grec --- Théâtre latin --- Esthétique de la réception --- Théâtre ancien --- History and criticism. --- Appreciation --- Histoire et critique --- Appréciation --- Reader-response criticism --- Classical literature --- History and criticism --- Théâtre grec --- Théâtre latin --- Esthétique de la réception --- Théâtre ancien --- Appréciation --- Greek drama - History and criticism --- Latin drama - History and criticism --- Classical literature - History and criticism --- Ethnicity. --- Rome --- History