Greek Theatre Between Antiquity and Independence: A History of Reinvention from the Third Century BC to 1830

ISBN-13: 9781107681521 / Angielski / Miękka / 2021 / 375 str.

Walter Puchner; Andrew White

Opis

The first history of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of Modern Greece, marked by significant discontinuities.

Spis treści

1. The long twilight of ancient theatre and drama; 2. Byzantium: high culture without theatre or dramatic literature; 3. Re-inventing theatre: Renaissance and Baroque Crete under Venetian rule (1500s–1600s); 4. Shaping a theatre tradition: the Ionian Islands from Venetian to British rule (1500s–1800s); 5. Jesuit theatre in Constantinople and the Archipelago (1600–1750); 6. Drama without performance: the Greek Enlightenment and Phanariot literature; 7. Rehearsing the Revolution: theatre as preparation for the uprising of 1821 (Bucharest, Jassy, Odessa); 8. Outlook: theatre in the nation-state versus theatre in the diaspora.