Actors and icons of the ancient theater / Eric Csapo.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Csapo, Eric.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Acting--History--To 1500.

Acting.

Theater--Greece--History--To 500.

Theater.

Theater--History--To 500.

Theater--Rome.

Actors--Greece.

Actors.

Actors--Rome.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (249 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Chichester, West Sussex, United Kingdom ; Malden, MA : Wiley-Blackwell, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman EmpirePresents a highly original viewpoint into several new and contested fields of studyOffers the first systematic survey of evidence for the spread of theater outside Athens and the impact of the expansion of theater upon actors and dramatic literatureAddresses a study of the privatization of theater and reveals how it was driven by political interestsChallenges preconceived notions about theater history

Contents:

Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater; Contents; List of illustrations; Preface; List of abbreviations; 1 A Portrait of the Artist I: Theater-Realistic Art in Athens, 500-330 bc; 2 A Portrait of the Artist II: Theater-Realistic Art in the Greek West, 400-300 bc; 3 The Spread of Theater and the Rise of the Actor; 4 Kallippides on the Floor Sweepings: The Limits of Realism in Classical Acting; 5 Cooking with Menander: Slices from the Ancient Home Entertainment Industry?; 6 The Politics of Privatization: A Short History of the Privatization of Drama from Classical Athens to Early Imperial Rome

BibliographyIndex

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9786612483271

9781282483279

1282483277

9781444318036

1444318039

9781444318043

1444318047

OCLC:

593254158