{"product_id":"ancient-greek-and-contemporary-performance-collected-essays-exeter-performance-studies-9780859898911","title":"Ancient Greek and Contemporary Performance","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThis collection of essays connects antiquity with the present by debating the current conceptions of performance theory and the insistence on a limited version of the contemporary'. These essays explore historical performance in ancient Greece and link it to wider reflections on cultural theory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e‘[. . . ] the work is a landmark contribution to theatre studies, and actors, directors, and readers of Greek theatre will find many valuable insights within the covers of this book.’\u003cbr\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eLauren Friesen, \u003c\/strong\u003eUniversity of Michigan-Flint,  Journal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism, Volume 32, Number 1, Fall 2017\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e ‘To have such a diverse set of essays by such an astute and careful thinker gathered in one volume offers the theatre\/performance scholar a box of intellectual treats with a long shelf-life.’ \u003cstrong\u003eProfessor Phillip Zarrilli\u003c\/strong\u003e, University of Exeter\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 'This collection of essays by Graham Ley covers over thirty years of scholarly research and reflection upon key questions in the field of performance and offers an impressive range both historically... and geographically.' (\u003cstrong\u003eMarvin Carlson\u003c\/strong\u003e, Studies in Theatre and Performance, 35.2, 2015)\u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e  \u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eIntroduction\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e Section A:  Greek theatre and theory\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ePreface\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 1. \"\u003cem\u003eHypokrinesthai\u003c\/em\u003e in Homer and Herodotus, and the Function of the Athenian Actor\", \u003cem\u003ePhilologus\u003c\/em\u003e 127.1 (1983)\u003cbr\u003e 2. \"Performance and Performatives\", \u003cem\u003eJournal of Dramatic Theory and Criticism\u003c\/em\u003e 13.1 (1998)\u003cbr\u003e 3. “Monody, Choral Song, and Athenian Festival Performance\", \u003cem\u003eMaia\u003c\/em\u003e xlv.2 (1993)\u003cbr\u003e 4. “The Presence of the Chorus”, unpublished essay developed from a paper given at a conference at Northwestern University, Chicago, October 2010.\u003cbr\u003e Section B:  Greek theatre practice\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ePreface\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 5. Graham Ley and Michael Ewans, \"The \u003cem\u003eorchestra\u003c\/em\u003e as Acting-area in Greek Tragedy\", \u003cem\u003eRamus \u003c\/em\u003e14.2 (1985)\u003cbr\u003e 6. \"Performance Studies and Greek Tragedy\", \u003cem\u003eEranos\u003c\/em\u003e 92 (1994)\u003cbr\u003e 7. “The Nameless and the Named: Techne and Technology in the Ancient Athenian Theatre”, \u003cem\u003ePerformance Research\u003c\/em\u003e 10.4 (2005)\u003cbr\u003e Section C:  Performance theory\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ePreface\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 8. \"Sacred Idiocy: the Avant-garde as Alternative Establishment\", \u003cem\u003eNew Theatre Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e 28 (1991)\u003cbr\u003e 9. \"The Rhetoric of Theory: the Role of Metaphor in Peter Brook's \u003cem\u003eThe Empty Space\u003c\/em\u003e\", \u003cem\u003eNew Theatre Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e 35 (1993)\u003cbr\u003e 10. \"Richard Schechner's `The Future of Ritual': the Final Chapter\", \u003cem\u003ePerformance Research\u003c\/em\u003e 3.3 `On Ritual' (1998)\u003cbr\u003e 11. \"Aristotle's \u003cem\u003ePoetics\u003c\/em\u003e, Bharatamuni's \u003cem\u003eNatyasastra\u003c\/em\u003e, and Zeami's Treatises: Theory as Discourse\", \u003cem\u003eAsian Theatre Journal\u003c\/em\u003e 17.2 (2000)\u003cbr\u003e 12. \"Theatrical Modernism: A Problematic\", in A.Eysteinsson and V.Liska (eds.)\u003cem\u003eA Comparative History of Literature in European Languages: Modernism\u003c\/em\u003e. Amsterdam: John Benjamins, (2007)\u003cbr\u003e 13. “Discursive Embodiment: The Theatre as Adaptation”, \u003cem\u003eJournal of Adaptation in Film and Performance\u003c\/em\u003e 2.3 (2009)\u003cbr\u003e 14. “The Critical Absence of a Postmodern Reception Theory of Live Performance”, unpublished editorial contribution to Baz Kershaw and Graham Ley (eds.),“Beyond Postmodernism”, \u003cem\u003eContemporary Theatre Review \u003c\/em\u003e3.18 (2008).\u003cbr\u003e Section D:  Diaspora theatre\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003ePreface\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cbr\u003e 15. “Composing a History: Problematics of the British Asian Research Project at Exeter”, \u003cem\u003eStudies in Theatre and Performance\u003c\/em\u003e 30.2 (2010)\u003cbr\u003e 16. “Theatre and Diversity” – unpublished English-language version of the paper delivered in Cologne and published in W.Schneider \u003cem\u003eTheater und Migration: Herausforderung fur Kulturpolitik und Theaterpraxis.\u003c\/em\u003e Bielefeld: Transcript, (2011)\u003cbr\u003e 17. “Diaspora Space, the Regions, and British Asian Theatre”, \u003cem\u003eNew Theatre Quarterly\u003c\/em\u003e 107 (2011)\u003cbr\u003e \u003cem\u003eConclusion\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"University of Exeter Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48884813791575,"sku":"9780859898911","price":65.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ancient-greek-and-contemporary-performance-collected-essays-exeter-performance-studies-9780859898911","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}