Greek Theatre in Context

Klappentext An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts. This book offers a valuable guide to Greek theatre. It presents a broad selection of key ancient sources, both visual and literary, about all aspects of performance - including actors, masks, stage props and choral dancing - as well as scenes from the plays themselves that offer insights into their staging, plots, and reception. The dramatic brilliance of playwrights such as Sophocles, Aristophanes and Menander is brought to the fore by helpful commentary that provides a framework for the interpretation of Greek drama, fleshes out its cultural contexts, and invites students to consider a range of provocative questions.An exciting series that provides students with direct access to the ancient world by offering new translations of extracts from its key texts.

Product details

• Authors: Eric Dugdale, Dugdale Eric
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 24.07.2008
• EAN: 9780521689427
• ISBN: 978-0-521-68942-7
• No. of pages: 210
• Series: Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts; Greece & Rome: Texts and Conte; Greece and Rome: Texts and Contexts; Greece & Rome: Texts and Conte; Greece and Rome: Texts and Con
• Subjects: Education and learning > Schoolbooks, general education schools; Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet; Ancient Greece, PERFORMING ARTS / Theater / General, Theatre Studies, Designed / suitable for A and AS Level (England and Wales), Designed / suitable for A & AS Level, For advanced / upper secondary education