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Table of Contents:

• Introduction: cultural history and the theatres of antiquity / Martin Revermann
• Institutional frameworks: enabling the theatrical event
• Martin Revermann
• Social functions? making the case for a functionless theatre / Sean Gurd
• Sexuality and gender: off-stage and centre-stage / Ian Ruffell
• The environment of theatre: experiencing place in the ancient world / David Wiles
• Circulation: theatre as mobile political, economic and cultural capital / Patrick Hadley
• Interpretations: the stage and its interpretive communities / Martin Revermann
• Communities of production: pied pipers and how to pay them; or, the variegated finance of ancient theatre / Jane Lightfoot
• Genres: drama and its many unhappy returns / Donald Sells
• Technologies of performance: machines, props, dramaturgy / Peter Von Möllendorff ; (translated from German by Martin Revermann)
• Knowledge transmission: ancient archives and repertoires / Johanna Hanink.

Contributors:

Revermann, Martin , editor

Languages:

English

Language Notes:

Item content: English

Related Series:

Cultural History of Theatre

Subjects:

Theater — Greece — History — To 500

Theater — Rome — History — To 500

Theater and society — Greece

Theater and society — Rome

To 500

Theater and society

Theater

Greece

Rome (Empire)

Genres:

History

General Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Physical Description:

1 online resource.

Digital Characteristics:

text file

Call Numbers:

PA3201 .C78 2017eb

ISBNs:

9781474208123 (online)
9781472585691 (hardback) [Invalid]

OCLC Numbers:

1170434412

Other Control Numbers:

[Unknown Type]: bpp09261822