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Ancient Greek and contemporary performance : collected essays

Graham Ley

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Previously issued in print: 2014."Sacred Idiocy: the Avant-garde as Alternative Establishment", New Theatre Quarterly 28 (1991)

9. "The Rhetoric of Theory: the Role of Metaphor in Peter Brook's The Empty Space", New Theatre Quarterly 35 (1993)

10. "Richard Schechner's `The Future of Ritual': the Final Chapter", Performance Research 3.3 `On Ritual' (1998)

11. "Aristotle's Poetics, Bharatamuni's Natyasastra, and Zeami's Treatises: Theory as Discourse", Asian Theatre Journal 17.2 (2000)

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Contents


Introduction

Section A:  Greek theatre and theory

Preface

1. "Hypokrinesthai in Homer and Herodotus, and the Function of the Athenian Actor", Philologus 127.1 (1983)

2. "Performance and Performatives", Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism 13.1 (1998)

3. “Monody, Choral Song, and Athenian Festival Performance", Maia xlv.2 (1993)

4. “The Presence of the Chorus”, unpublished essay developed from a paper given at a conference at Northwestern University, Chicago, October 2010.

Section B:  Greek theatre practice

Preface

5. Graham Ley and Michael Ewans, "The orchestra as Acting-area in Greek Tragedy", Ramus 14.2 (1985)

6. "Performance Studies and Greek Tragedy", Eranos 92 (1994)

7. “The Nameless and the Named: Techne and Technology in the Ancient Athenian Theatre”, Performance Research 10.4 (2005)

Section C:  Performance theory

Preface

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