Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy - From Ancient Festival to Modern Experimentation

Klappentext A 2007 study of the mask in Greek tragedy, covering both ancient and modern performances. Zusammenfassung Why did Greek actors in the age of Sophocles always wear masks? In this 2007 volume! David Wiles provides the first book-length study of this question! surveying the evidence of vases and other monuments! and examining experiments with the mask in twentieth-century theatre. Inhaltsverzeichnis 1. Introduction; 2. The evidence of vases; 3. The sculptural art of the Greek mask-maker; 4. Mask and modernism; 5. Physical theatre and mask in the twentieth century; 6. Mask and text: the case of Hall's Oresteia; 7. The mask as musical instrument; 8. Masks and polytheism; 9. The mask of Dionysos; 10. Sacred viewing: 'theorizing' the ancient mask; 11. Mask and self; Epilogue: to the performer.

Product details

• Authors: David Wiles, David (Royal Holloway Wiles, David Dr Wiles, Wiles David
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 19.07.2012
• EAN: 9781107404793
• ISBN: 978-1-107-40479-3
• No. of pages: 334
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Ancient Greece, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Greece, Theatre Studies