Professor Dustin W. Dixon (Assistant Professor of Classics, Grinnell College, USA), Professor John S. Garrison (Grinnell
The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of mortals playing gods but also the nature of theatrical spectacle itself. The very impossibility of rendering the gods in all their divine splendor in a truly convincing way lies at the intersection of divine power and the power of the theater. This book pursues these dynamics on the stages of ancient Athens and Rome as well on those of Renaissance England to shed new light on theatrical performance. The authors reveal how gods appear onstage...
The gods have much to tell us about performance. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of...
