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

Wiles, David

 
9781107404793: Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy: From Ancient Festival to Modern Experimentation
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ISBN 10 : 1107404797 ISBN 13 : 9781107404793
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2012

Synopsis

Why did Greek actors in the age of Sophocles always wear masks? In this book, first published in 2007, David Wiles provided the first book-length study of this question. He surveys the evidence of vases and other monuments, arguing that they portray masks as part of a process of transformation, and that masks were never seen in the fifth century as autonomous objects. Wiles goes on to examine experiments with the mask in twentieth-century theatre, tracing a tension between the use of masks for possession and for alienation, and he identifies a preference among modern classical scholars for alienation. Wiles declines to distinguish the political aims of Greek tragedy from its religious aims, and concludes that an understanding of the mask allows us to see how Greek acting was simultaneously text-centred and body-centred. This book challenges orthodox views about how theatre relates to ritual, and provides insight into the creative work of the actor.

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Why did Greek actors in the age of Sophocles always wear masks? In this book, first published in 2007, David Wiles provided the first book-length study of this question. He surveys the evidence of vases and other monuments, arguing that they portray masks as part of a process of transformation, and that masks were never seen in the fifth century as autonomous objects. Wiles goes on to examine experiments with the mask in twentieth-century theatre, tracing a tension between the use of masks for possession and for alienation, and he identifies a preference among modern classical scholars for alienation. Wiles declines to distinguish the political aims of Greek tragedy from its religious aims, and concludes that an understanding of the mask allows us to see how Greek acting was simultaneously text-centred and body-centred. This book challenges orthodox views about how theatre relates to ritual, and provides insight into the creative work of the actor.

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'This is one of the most important books on Greek drama to appear in the last twenty years.' Journal of Hellenic Studies

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Éditeur
Cambridge University Press
Date d'édition
2012
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1107404797
ISBN 13 
9781107404793
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
332
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9780521865227: Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy: From Ancient Festival to Modern Experimentation

Edition présentée

ISBN 10 :  0521865220 ISBN 13 :  9780521865227
Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2007
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