Theatre and Metatheatre
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Theatre and Metatheatre

Definitions, Problems, Limits

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eBook - PDF

Theatre and Metatheatre

Definitions, Problems, Limits

About this book

Die Beiträge dieser gesamtaltertumswissenschaftlichen Reihe behandeln hauptsächlich Themen zur Antike aus dem Bereich der Literatur-, Bild-, Medien-, Theater-, Religions- und Kulturwissenschaften. Ein besonderer Schwerpunkt liegt auf der Anwendung moderner Theorien, z. B. auf dem Gebiet der Anthropologie, Performativität und Narrativität, auf dem interdisziplinären Vergleich, auf der mythisch-rituellen und ikonischen Poetik von Texten und bildlichen Darstellungen sowie auf der Rezeption antiker Stoffe in diesem Kontext.

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Publisher
De Gruyter
Year
2021
Print ISBN
9783110637410
eBook ISBN
9783110716559

Table of contents

  1. Acknowledgements
  2. Contents
  3. ‘“Theatre”, “Paratheatre”, “Metatheatre”: What Are We Talking About?’
  4. Theatre and Paratheatre
  5. Definitions and Limits of Theatrical Performances
  6. ‘Diffused Performance and Core Performance of Greek Theatre’
  7. ‘(Un)Masking the πόλις: The Pre-Play Ceremonies of the Athenian Great Dionysia as Theatrical Performances?’
  8. ‘Greek to Latin and Back: Did Roman Theatre Change Greek Theatre?’
  9. Paratheatre
  10. ‘Defining Paratheatre, From Grotowski to Antiquity’
  11. Metatheatre
  12. Theoretical Aspects
  13. ‘New Thoughts on Metatheatre in Attic Drama: Self-Referentiality, Ritual and Performativity as Total Theatre’
  14. Performative Aspects
  15. ‘A Gesture That Reveals Itself As a Gesture: Thinking About the Metatheatricality of the Body in Greek Tragedy’
  16. Case Studies
  17. Tragedy
  18. ‘Metatheatre and Dramaturgical Innovation: A Study of Recognition Scenes in Euripides’ Tragedies Electra, Helen, Iphigenia in Tauris, and Ion’
  19. ‘The Mask of Troy: Metatheatre in the Prologue and Final kommos of Euripides’ Troades’
  20. Aristophanes, Old Comedy
  21. ‘Animal Metaphors and Metadrama. A Cultural Insight into the Verb πιθηκίζειν’
  22. ‘Ar. Eccl. 889 ὅμως ἔχει τερπνόν τι καὶ κωμῳδικόν. A Comedy’s Self- Consideration of Its Lyrical Forms at the Dawn of “Middle Comedy”?’
  23. Mimes
  24. ‘Mime and Metatheatre’
  25. Abbreviations
  26. Bibliography
  27. List of Contributors
  28. Index verborum
  29. Index locorum

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