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This book studies the reception of Plato's dialogues as performance texts both by his original audience and by his readers down to late antiquity. A combination of well-known and newly discovered pieces of literary and archaeological evidence tell the forgotten story of 'Plato the playwright'.

Table of Contents
1. Setting the stage; 2. The metatheatre of dialogue; 3. Performing Plato; 4. Plato's theatre: the fragments; Finale; Appendix: an Academy inscription.

Platonic Drama and its Ancient Reception

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      Publisher: Cambridge University Press
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 05/04/2012
      ISBN13: 9780521871747, 978-0521871747
      ISBN10: 0521871743
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      ELT & Literary Studies Literary studies: ancient, classical

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book studies the reception of Plato's dialogues as performance texts both by his original audience and by his readers down to late antiquity. A combination of well-known and newly discovered pieces of literary and archaeological evidence tell the forgotten story of 'Plato the playwright'.

      Table of Contents
      1. Setting the stage; 2. The metatheatre of dialogue; 3. Performing Plato; 4. Plato's theatre: the fragments; Finale; Appendix: an Academy inscription.

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