{"product_id":"page-and-stage-intersections-of-text-and-performance-in-ancient-greek-drama-paperback-1","title":"Page and Stage: Intersections of Text and Performance in Ancient Greek Drama - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eStuart Douglas Olson\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003eOliver Taplin\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor), \u003cb\u003ePiero Totaro\u003c\/b\u003e (Editor)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eOur knowledge of the ancient theatre is limited by the textual and iconographic character of the evidence available to us: we cannot watch or otherwise experience an Athenian tragedy or comedy. These essays, by a distinguished group of international scholars, bridge the gap between the surviving literary and iconographic evidence and the realities of performance on the ancient Greek stage. This ambitious goal is reached by means of a detailed examination of several case-studies: the construction of dramatic space in Sophocles' \u003cem\u003eAntigone\u003c\/em\u003e; the significance of the use of deictic pronouns in Sophocles' \u003cem\u003eTrachiniae\u003c\/em\u003e; the theatrical and religious dynamics of the appearance of divine figures on stage; the relationship between the victory celebrations at the end of Aristophanic comedies and their counterparts in the after-performance real world; the investigation of nude or semi-nude female characters in Aristophanes; the staging of \u003cem\u003eClouds\u003c\/em\u003e and the opening scene of \u003cem\u003eAcharnians\u003c\/em\u003e; the meditation on the metapoetics of the use of props in 5th-century comedy; the relationship between performance context and text through a close reading of a number of Aristophanic fragments; the way the \u003cem\u003escholia vetera\u003c\/em\u003e on \u003cem\u003eFrogs\u003c\/em\u003e imagine and use questions of staging practice; and the potential Aeschylean authorship of some of stage-direction traceable in Aeschylus' \u003cem\u003eEumenides\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eDiktoulkoi\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eS. Douglas Olson\u003c\/strong\u003e, Department of Classical and Near Eastern Relligions and Cultures, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, USA; \u003cstrong\u003eOliver Taplin\u003c\/strong\u003e, Magdalen College, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK; \u003cstrong\u003ePiero Totaro\u003c\/strong\u003e, Dipartimento di Ricerca e Innovazione Umanistica, University of Bari, Bari, Italy. \u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 193\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.42 x 9.21 x 6.14 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e June 30, 2025\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52704507101491,"sku":"9783112215371","price":25.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0300\/5595\/6612\/files\/tpid9P1zqK9783112215371_453aec65-79fa-438d-a096-cd65bceb23da.webp?v=1763355629","url":"https:\/\/www.vysn.com\/en-ca\/products\/page-and-stage-intersections-of-text-and-performance-in-ancient-greek-drama-paperback-1","provider":"VYSN","version":"1.0","type":"link"}