In this work the author proposes that one should consider Greek tragedy of the 5th-century BC as performance-based, with a visual emphasis. He does not consider language as the most important feature of Greek drama. Professor Walton also contends that a close consideration of the surviving Greek tragedies reveals that all three major tragedians wrote with a masked performance in mind which promoted the use of visual images above and beyond the spoken word.
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Walton's overview is stimulating, refreshingly clear in style and attractively presented... It is a must for would-be and even experienced directors of classical productions.
–Joint Association of Classical Teachers, Spring 1986
–Joint Association of Classical Teachers, Spring 1986
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Aeschylus was that first dramatist, and it is one of the theatre's greater losses that Craig never directed a production of any of his plays. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
triangular scene, choral ode, stage picture, satyr play Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oedipus Tyrannus, Theatre of Dionysus, Great Dionysia, Seven Against Thebes, Madness of Heracles, Women of Trachis, Trojan Women, The Winter's Tale New!
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Aeschylus was that first dramatist, and it is one of the theatre's greater losses that Craig never directed a production of any of his plays. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
triangular scene, choral ode, stage picture, satyr play Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
Oedipus Tyrannus, Theatre of Dionysus, Great Dionysia, Seven Against Thebes, Madness of Heracles, Women of Trachis, Trojan Women, The Winter's Tale New!
Books on Related Topics | Concordance | Text Stats Browse Sample Pages:
Front Cover | Table of Contents | First Pages | Index | Back Cover | Surprise Me!
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- The Iphigenia in Tauris by Euripides on 8 pages
- Seven Against Thebes (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Aeschylus on 7 pages
- Women of Trachis (Greek Tragedy in New Translations) by Sophocles on 5 pages
- Greek Tragedy (Drama Classics) by Sophocles Sophocles on 5 pages
- The Trojan Women (Plays for Performance Series) by Nicholas Rudall on 4 pages
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- Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English by J. Michael Walton in Front Matter, and Back Matter
- Plautus in Performance: The Theatre of the Mind (Greek and Roman Theatre Archive,) by Niall W. Slater in Front Matter
- Sophocles and the Tragedy of Athenian Democracy (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies: Lives of the Theatre) by D. G. Beer in Back Matter
- Menander and the Making of Comedy (Contributions in Drama and Theatre Studies) by J. Michael Walton in Back Matter
- The Masks of Menander: Sign and Meaning in Greek and Roman Performance by David Wiles in Back Matter
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