Wise believes that a comparison of the performance style of oral epic with that of drama as it emerged in sixth-century Greece shows the extent to which theatre was influenced by literate activities relatively new to the ancient world. These activities, foreign to Homer yet familiar to Aeschylus and his contemporaries, included the use of the alphabet, the teaching of texts in schools, the public inscription of laws, the sending and receiving of letters, the exchange of city coinage, and the making of lists. Having changed the way cultural material was processed and transmitted, the technology of writing also led to innovations in the way stories were told, and Wise contends that theatre was the result. However, the art of drama appeared in ancient Greece not only as a beneficiary of literacy but also in defiance of any tendency to see textuality as an end in itself.
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What is the nature of theatre's uneasy alliance with literature? Should theatre be viewed as a preliterate, ritualistic phenomenon that can only be compromised by writing? Or should theatre be grouped with other literary arts as essentially "textual," with even physical performance subsumed under the aegis of textuality? Jennifer Wise, a theatre historian and drama theorist who is also an actor, director, and designer, responds with a challenging and convincing reconstruction of the historical context from which Western theatre first emerged.
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IN AN UNKNOWN YEAR IN THE FIFTH CENTURY B.C.E., POSSIBLY AT THE end of the 430S, when Euripides' Medea and Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos were performed, the Athenian poet Kallias wrote and presented a play about the alphabet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dionysus Writes, Rosalind Thomas, William Harris, Diogenes Laertius, Jack Goody, Seven Against Thebes, Theatre of Dionysus, Barry Powell, Douris Cup, Paul Ricoeur, The Student Bodv, Albert Bates Lord, City Dionysia, King Lear, Martin Ostwald, Middle Ages, Quem Quaeritis, The Bells, Walter Ong, Xenophon Memorabilia New!
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IN AN UNKNOWN YEAR IN THE FIFTH CENTURY B.C.E., POSSIBLY AT THE end of the 430S, when Euripides' Medea and Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos were performed, the Athenian poet Kallias wrote and presented a play about the alphabet. Read the first page Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Dionysus Writes, Rosalind Thomas, William Harris, Diogenes Laertius, Jack Goody, Seven Against Thebes, Theatre of Dionysus, Barry Powell, Douris Cup, Paul Ricoeur, The Student Bodv, Albert Bates Lord, City Dionysia, King Lear, Martin Ostwald, Middle Ages, Quem Quaeritis, The Bells, Walter Ong, Xenophon Memorabilia New!
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Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- Of Grammatology by Jacques Derrida on 4 pages
- Women of Trachis (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Sophocles on 4 pages
- Performance in Postmodern Culture (Theories of Contemporary Culture, V. 1) by Michel Benamou on 4 pages
- Iphigenia in Aulis (Plays for Performance Series) by Euripides on 4 pages
- Iphigenia Among the Taurians (Plays for Performance Series) by Euripides on page 17, page 196, and page 197
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- Euripides and the Poetics of Nostalgia by Gary S. Meltzer in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Psalms in Community: Jewish and Christian Textual, Liturgical, and Artistic Traditions (Symposium Series (Society of Biblical Literature), No. 25.) by Harold W. Attridge; Margot Elsbeth Fassler on page 168, and Back Matter
- The Theatrical Cast of Athens: Interactions between Ancient Greek Drama and Society by Edith Hall in Back Matter
- Written Texts and the Rise of Literate Culture in Ancient Greece by Harvey Yunis in Back Matter
- Thucydides and the Shaping of History (Classical Literature and Society) by Emily Greenwood in Back Matter
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