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Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare

Professor Dustin W. Dixon, Professor John S. Garrison (Autoren)

Buch | Hardcover

208 Seiten

2021
Bloomsbury Academic (Verlag)
978-1-350-09814-5 (ISBN)

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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 both to astound and to dramatize the very machinations by which theatrical performance operates. Offering an array of case studies featuring both canonical and lesser-studied texts, this volume discusses work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Plautus as well as Beaumont, Heywood, Jonson, Marlowe, and Shakespeare.

This book uniquely brings together the joint perspectives of two experts on classical and Renaissance drama. This volume will appeal to students and enthusiasts of literature, classics, theater, and performance studies.

Dustin W. Dixon is Assistant Professor of Classics, Grinnell College, USA, where he teaches courses on ancient literature and culture. His research on drama appears in journals such as Classical Philology, Classical Quarterly, and Classical Receptions Journal. John S. Garrison is a Professor of English at Grinnell College. His books include Glass (2015), Shakespeare at Peace (with Kyle Pivetti, 2018), and Shakespeare and the Afterlife (2019). In 2021, he was named a Guggenheim Fellow.

Introduction: The Gods Take Stage
Chapter One: Approaching Divinity
Chapter Two: Under the Actor’s Spell: Audiences in Euripides’ Helen and Marlowe’s Doctor Faustus
Chapter Three: An Actor Ascends: Status and Identity in Plautus’ Amphitruo and the Court Masque
Chapter Four: Authoring Gods in Aeschylus’ Oresteia and Shakespeare’s Hamlet
Chapter Five: To Die is Human, To Perform is Divine
Afterword: Entertaining Gods in Zimmerman’s Metamorphoses

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Erscheinungsdatum	18.06.2021
Reihe/Serie	Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
Zusatzinfo	7 bw illus
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	472 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturgeschichte
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	1-350-09814-0 / 1350098140
ISBN-13	978-1-350-09814-5 / 9781350098145
Zustand	Neuware