- Title
- Performance-based research into Greek drama
- Creator
- Ewans, Michael
- Relation
- Greek and Roman Drama: Translation and Performance p. 58-78
- Relation
- https://www.metzlerverlag.de/index.php
- Publisher
- Metzler
- Resource Type
- book chapter
- Date
- 2002
- Description
- The ancient 'evidence' for the staging of Greek tragedy is very slight, and much of it reflects Hellensitic and Roman performance practices, when dramas were performed in a theatre shape different from that of the theatre of Dionysos. So the first main aim of this paper is to argue that for many issues which Greek drama raises, the ancient evidence is so inconclusive in itself that, if a scholar interprets it in isolation in his or her study, he or she naturally supplements the evidence with subjective assumptions about the nature of the theatrical performance. These assumptions may well turn out to be inappropriate, if they are based on modern images of theatre, and not derived from performance experience of producing ancient Greek tragedy in accordance with what is known about Athenian performance practice. By contrast, a research production which does conform in relevant respects with Athenian conventions may provide insights which are more reliable - perhaps even more 'objective' - than deductions made, without benefit of modern performance, from ancient evidence.
- Subject
- Greek drama; ancient theatre production
- Identifier
- uon:2555
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/29353
- Identifier
- ISBN:3476453022
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