Ebook: Dionysus Writes: The Invention of Theatre in Ancient Greece
Author: Wise Jennifer
- Tags: Greek drama -- History and criticism -- Theory etc, Invention (Rhetoric) -- History -- To 1500, Literacy -- Greece -- History -- To 1500, Literary form -- History -- To 1500, Theater -- Greece -- History -- To 500, Written communication -- Greece -- History -- To 1500, Performing Arts & Drama, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece
- Year: 2019
- Publisher: Cornell University Press
- Language: English
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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 Read more...