An inexplicably understudied field of classical scholarship, tragic reperformance, has been surveyed in its true dimension only in the very recent years. Building on the latest discussions on tragic restagings, this book provides a thorough survey of reperformance of Greek tragedy in the fifth and fourth centuries BC, also addressing its theatrical, political, and cultural context. In the fifth and fourth centuries, tragic restagings were strongly tied to cultural mobility and exchange. Poets, actors, texts, vases, and vase-painters were traveling, bridging the boundaries between mainland Greece and Magna Graecia, boosting the spread of theater, facilitating theatrical literacy, and setting a new theatrical status quo, according to which popular tragic plays were restaged, by mobile actors, in numerous dramatic festivals, in and out of Attica, with or without the supervision of their composers. This book offers a holistic examination of ancient reperformances of tragedy, enhancing our perception of them as a vital theatrical practice that played a major part in the development of the tragic genre in the fifth and fourth centuries BC.
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"This is a scholarly account with a full complement of notes, references and bibliography. References quoted in the text are given in the original Greek as well as in translation. Altogether it is a thorough piece of work and the case made is highly plausible."Colin McDonald in: Classics for All, 23.01.2018 https://classicsforall.org.uk/book-reviews/reperforming-greek-tragedy-theater-politics-cultural-mobility-fifth-fourth-centuries-bc/ "[...] Lamari's book is an excellent and useful introduction to an important aspect of the ancient Creek theater that is only recently getting the attention it deserves."Mark Ringer in: CJ-Online (07.05.2019), 1-2
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ISBN
9783110559866
Publisert
2017-10-23
Utgiver
Vendor
De Gruyter
Vekt
423 gr
Høyde
230 mm
Bredde
155 mm
Aldersnivå
P, 06
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Innbundet
Antall sider
207

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Biographical note

Anna A. Lamari, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece.