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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      11 February 2021
      21 January 2021
      ISBN:
      9781108663878
      9781108493871
      9781108725651
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108663878
      Dimensions:
      (247 x 174 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.6kg, 248 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (244 x 170 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.432kg, 248 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Theatre, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
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    Classical Theatre, Classical Studies, Classical Literature, Drama, Theatre, Performance Studies
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    Studies of ancient theater have traditionally taken Athens as their creative center. In this book, however, the lens is widened to examine the origins and development of ancient drama, and particularly comedy, within a Sicilian and southern Italian context. Each chapter explores a different category of theatrical evidence, from the literary (fragments of Epicharmus and cult traditions) to the artistic (phylax vases) and the archaeological (theater buildings). Kathryn G. Bosher argues that, unlike in classical Athens, the golden days of theatrical production on Sicily coincided with the rule of tyrants, rather than with democratic interludes. Moreover, this was not accidental, but plays and the theater were an integral part of the tyrants' propaganda system. The volume will appeal widely to classicists and to theater historians.

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