A series of scenes taken from Greek theatre were collaborated and chosen to form what became known as An Evening of Greek Theatre. Along with the normal challenges of creating a production, such as memorization, blocking, costuming, and others, came challenges that were unique to this particular one. The training we are most familiar with is in the confines of realism, and this particular production had little to do with realism. The stylization created an amalgamation of techniques, which became a functional process used to create An Evening of Greek Theatre. Along with these problems were other ones, such as dealing with the mythological significance of the characters and the stigmas that go with them. This, too, provided a breeding ground for creativity and experimentation. All this came together to form a successful and rewarding production.

This thesis tackles a conspicuous absence in current scholarship on ancient theatre. Amid the recent scholarly interest in the rapid expansion of the theatre industry from the late fifth-century BC onwards, no study has been made of a central, defining even, element of ancient Greek drama at that time – the chorus. Instead, what we find is a widespread assumption concerning the fourth-century dramatic chorus, particularly with regard to the comic chorus, still prevalent in today’s scholarship: ‘The history of the dramatic chorus is one of decline both quantitatively and qualitatively’, states one of the more detailed recent reviews of the evidence for dramatic choral culture in the ancient world (Csapo and Slater 1995:349). The thesis focuses on the literary sources available to us concerning fourth-century dramatic choruses in Athens. The material is divided into three sections. The first section addresses the important testimony of Aristotle concerning the choruses of his day, particularly in the Poetics (chapter one). The second section analyses the choral text in the (probably fourth-century) Rhesus (chapter two), the interpolated choral passages in the Iphigenia at Aulis and Seven Against Thebes (chapter three), and the choruses of Aristophanes’ Assemblywomen and Wealth, as well as extant fragments of fourth-century comedy (chapter four). The third section is a survey of how the chorus is used in a wide range of fourth-century texts (chapter five), and gives special attention to Plato’s somewhat idiosyncratic presentation of the chorus in his works (chapter six). These analyses show 1) that ‘decline’ is an inappropriate term to describe the development of the chorus and 2) the creativity with which the chorus is used and thought about in fourth-century drama and society. The thesis aims to provide an elucidation of dramatic choral activity in the fourth century and to provoke further interrogation of the assumptions commonly held about the development of both the ancient chorus and ancient drama as a whole.

“It’s a nightmare, really.” Orestes returns from exile to take revenge for his father’s death. From there begins a dizzying exploration into what it means to take revenge, what familial ties really mean, and what happens to a country after the long, drawn out war is finally over. Orestes 2.0 takes a bold look into these ideas and more, using Euripides’ ancient play as a touchstone and putting a contemporary spin on it by borrowing from many, many different sources. The award‐winning University of New Orleans’ production of Orestes 2.0 strives to open the world of ancient Greek to a modern audience and make them realize that there are no new problems and we have been dealing with these basic issues since time immemorial.

Na contemporaneidade nenhum deus da Grécia antiga exerce tanto fascínio quanto o deus do vinho, Diônisos. Filho de Zeus e de Sêmele, perseguido por Hera, protegido por Hermes e duas vezes nascido, estranho estrangeiro, veste máscaras, é coroado de hera, senhor da videira, impera nas Antestérias e nas Lenéias, está representado nos textos antigos, em vasos, frisos, frontões e nos legou o lugar de sua identidade, o teatro. O teatro é por excelência o espaço de Diônisos. Livre e libertador, o deus a céu aberto, com o passar do tempo tem para si um espaço singular. A presente pesquisa se detém na arquitetura teatral como uma tecnologia simbólica e sua disposição na paisagem para tentar compreender os códigos implícitos que denotam indícios de uma comunicação não verbal, presente no ambiente construído. Entendemos lugar como um conceito relacional, repositório de sequências e ações que se torna parte da tradição de um povo. Aliamos documentação textual às fontes materiais e, para desenvolver nosso tema, selecionamos um repertório com dezesseis teatros do mundo grego. Na Grécia situam-se nas seguintes cidades: Atenas, Argos, Delfos, Delos, Dodona, Epidauro, Mileto, Priene e Sicione. Na Itália eles estão localizados em Heracleia Minoa, Lócris, Metaponto, Morgantina, Segesta, Siracusa e Taormina. Utilizamos o nosso corpus documental como um registro a revelar aspectos do culto dionisíaco na pólis grega do séc. VI ao III a.C. / In the contemporary world, there is no other ancient Greek god who is found as fascinating as Dionysus, the god of wine. Son of Zeus and Semele, pursued by Hera, protected by Hermes and twice-born, strange foreigner, wearer of masks, crowned with ivy, lord of the vines, he is represented in ancient texts, vases and friezes, and he bequeathed to us the home of his identity: the theatre. The theatre is the Dionysian space par excellence. Liberated and liberating, the god of the open sky, with the passing of time he comes to possess a singular space for himself. This research project focuses on theatrical architecture as a symbolic technology, and on its use within the landscape, with the aim of understanding the implicit codes that denote the indices of a non-verbal communication present in the built environment. Space is understood as a relational concept, a repository of sequences and actions that become part of a people\'s tradition. We will link textual documents to material sources and, in order to develop the subject further, we have made a selection of sixteen theatres in the Greek world. In Greece, they are situated in the following cities: Athens, Argos, Delphi, Delos, Dodona, Epidaurus, Miletus, Priene and Sicione. In Italy, they are located in Heracleia Minoa, Locri, Metaponto, Morgantina, Segesta, Syracuse and Taormina. We will use our body of documents as a register through which to reveal aspects of the Dionysian cult in the Greek polis during the period VI-III BC.

Σκοπός της παρούσας εργασίας είναι να συναναγνώσει δύο κείμενα της αρχαιότητας, την Ποιητική του Αριστοτέλη και τη Nāṭyaśāstra του Bharata Muni, δύο κείμενα με αποκλίνοντα χρονικά και γεωγραφικά όρια, με διαφορετικό θεματικό ορίζοντα και διαφορετική σκοποθεσία, τα οποία εντούτοις μοιράζονται το εξής: πρόκειται για τις δύο αρχαιότερες σωζόμενες πραγματείες για την τέχνη του θεάτρου, η πρώτη από τη σκοπιά της Δύσης και η δεύτερη από αυτή της Ανατολής. / The purpose of this master thesis is to study comparatively two texts of antiquity, the Poetics of Aristotle and the Nāṭyaśāstra of Bharata Muni, two treatises with divergent time and geographical limits, with different thematic horizon and different target, which though share the following: these are the two oldest surviving documents on the art of theatre, the first coming from the West, the second from the East.

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Na contemporaneidade nenhum deus da Grécia antiga exerce tanto fascínio quanto o deus do vinho, Diônisos. Filho de Zeus e de Sêmele, perseguido por Hera, protegido por Hermes e duas vezes nascido, estranho estrangeiro, veste máscaras, é coroado de hera, senhor da videira, impera nas Antestérias e nas Lenéias, está representado nos textos antigos, em vasos, frisos, frontões e nos legou o lugar de sua identidade, o teatro. O teatro é por excelência o espaço de Diônisos. Livre e libertador, o deus a céu aberto, com o passar do tempo tem para si um espaço singular. A presente pesquisa se detém na arquitetura teatral como uma tecnologia simbólica e sua disposição na paisagem para tentar compreender os códigos implícitos que denotam indícios de uma comunicação não verbal, presente no ambiente construído. Entendemos lugar como um conceito relacional, repositório de sequências e ações que se torna parte da tradição de um povo. Aliamos documentação textual às fontes materiais e, para desenvolver nosso tema, selecionamos um repertório com dezesseis teatros do mundo grego. Na Grécia situam-se nas seguintes cidades: Atenas, Argos, Delfos, Delos, Dodona, Epidauro, Mileto, Priene e Sicione. Na Itália eles estão localizados em Heracleia Minoa, Lócris, Metaponto, Morgantina, Segesta, Siracusa e Taormina. Utilizamos o nosso corpus documental como um registro a revelar aspectos do culto dionisíaco na pólis grega do séc. VI ao III a.C. / In the contemporary world, there is no other ancient Greek god who is found as fascinating as Dionysus, the god of wine. Son of Zeus and Semele, pursued by Hera, protected by Hermes and twice-born, strange foreigner, wearer of masks, crowned with ivy, lord of the vines, he is represented in ancient texts, vases and friezes, and he bequeathed to us the home of his identity: the theatre. The theatre is the Dionysian space par excellence. Liberated and liberating, the god of the open sky, with the passing of time he comes to possess a singular space for himself. This research project focuses on theatrical architecture as a symbolic technology, and on its use within the landscape, with the aim of understanding the implicit codes that denote the indices of a non-verbal communication present in the built environment. Space is understood as a relational concept, a repository of sequences and actions that become part of a people\'s tradition. We will link textual documents to material sources and, in order to develop the subject further, we have made a selection of sixteen theatres in the Greek world. In Greece, they are situated in the following cities: Athens, Argos, Delphi, Delos, Dodona, Epidaurus, Miletus, Priene and Sicione. In Italy, they are located in Heracleia Minoa, Locri, Metaponto, Morgantina, Segesta, Syracuse and Taormina. We will use our body of documents as a register through which to reveal aspects of the Dionysian cult in the Greek polis during the period VI-III BC.

En el presente trabajo llevo a cabo un estudio comparativo de las técnicas teatrales y metateatrales que utilizaron el novelista español del Siglo de Oro Miguel de Cervantes en la Segunda Parte de Don Quijote de La Mancha y el dramaturgo modernista italiano Luigi Pirandello en las obras teatrales Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore y Enrico IV. Si bien estos dos autores han sido objeto de numerosos estudios por separado, en la actualidad no existen análisis comparativos de sus obras. Para investigar la utilización que hicieron de técnicas teatrales y metateatrales, parto del teatro griego clásico como tertium comparationis. Pese a que durante mucho tiempo el concepto de metateatro se consideró incompatible con el teatro clásico, la relación entre los dos ha comenzado a reconsiderarse en los últimos tiempos. En mi estudio me baso en las publicaciones más recientes sobre el tema y muestro la importancia del teatro griego clásico para la metateatralidad cervantina y pirandelliana. Lo hago, en primer lugar, trazando el interés de Cervantes por la cultura mediterránea (en concreto, por la Commedia dell’Arte italiana) y, a través de esta, por el teatro griego clásico. Luego me aproximo a través del folclore siciliano a la filosofía del teatro de Pirandello, la cual, aunque se suele identificar con los movimientos de vanguardia europeos de comienzos del siglo XX, se nutrió profundamente de la filosofía y la tragedia griegas. Seguidamente procedo a examinar las técnicas teatrales y metateatrales cervantinas y pirandellianas desde la perspectiva de algunos topoi clave del teatro griego clásico. Asimismo, hago un repaso por los temas clave que comparten Don Quijote de La Mancha, Sei Personaggi in Cerca d'Autore y Enrico IV y su relación con el teatro griego clásico mediante el análisis de las técnicas teatrales y metateatrales de las que se valieron sus autores. Por último, me enfoco en una de dichas técnicas (el uso de títeres) para ilustrar la recurrencia de motivos y temas entre lo clásico (el teatro griego), lo moderno temprano (Cervantes) y lo vanguardista (Pirandello). En este caso, voy más allá de Cervantes y Pirandello para incluir al poeta y dramaturgo modernista español Federico García Lorca, quien fue contemporáneo del dramaturgo italiano y que compartía con él el interés en renovar el panorama teatral de su época regresando al novelista español del Siglo de Oro y, por extensión, al teatro griego clásico.

Orientador: Joaquim Brasil Fontes Júnior / Tese (doutorado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Faculdade de Educação / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-27T00:19:14Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Pereira_VeraLuciaCrepaldi_D.pdf: 3050663 bytes, checksum: 5eeca30f8afc509d23ebc5bd6a19be1b (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015 / Resumo: Este estudo tem como objetivo ler uma tragédia do teatro clássico grego escrita por Eurípides, Ifigênia em Áulis, com base em um tema mítico, e analisá-la sob o olhar dos helenistas, estabelecendo, a partir daí, um diálogo com a mesma temática em tragédias do período clássico e do teatro contemporâneo de autores franceses, através das obras Iphigénie e Iphigénie ou le Péché des Dieux, de Jean Racine e de Michel Azama, respectivamente. Apoia-se esta pesquisa em conceitos da filosofia moderna e pós-moderna para explicar o movimento do mito nessas diversas etapas da temporalidade que fazem parte do processo evolutivo do teatro, desde a Grécia Antiga até a época atual, sem perder de vista o período clássico. No caminho que se percorreu, procurou-se destacar a questão do conceito de sacrifício nesse mito que impulsionou as peças teatrais que são a base do corpus deste trabalho. Verificou-se que todas as obras levantam a ideia do sacrifício simbolizada através da Guerra de Troia e revisitada no momento em que esses autores comparavam valores políticos, sociais e religiosos moldados de acordo com a noção do poder vigente, em suas próprias épocas. Conclui-se, assim, que os três autores fazem uso da tragédia para denunciar o sacrifício e que Ifigênia continua viva no mundo atual. Desde a peça euripideana, a ação está subordinada à palavra, refletindo as tensões entre o poder e o sacrifício do ato / Abstract: This study has as its aim to read a tragedy of the classical Greek theatre written by Euripides, Iphigenia in Aulis, based on a mythical theme, and analyse it from the perspective of the Hellenists and from this, set up a dialogue with the same theme in tragedies of the classical era and contemporary theatre of French writers through the works Iphigénie and Iphigénie ou le Péché des Dieux, of Jean Racine and Michel Azama, respectively. This research is underpinned by modern and post-modern philosophical concepts in order to explain the movement of the myth in those distinct stages of temporality that are part of the evolutionary process of the theatre, from Ancient Greece to modern times, bearing in mind the classical period. In undertaking this trajectory, special focus was given to the question of the concept of sacrifice present in this myth, which inspired the theatrical plays that are the basis of this study. It was confirmed that all the works raise the idea of sacrifice, symbolized by the Trojan War and revisited when these authors compared political, social and religious values molded according to the notion of power present in their respective times. It is concluded that the three authors make use of tragedy to denounce the sacrifice and that Iphigenia is still alive in the contemporary world. Moreover, since the Euripidean play, action is subordinated to the word, reflecting the tension between power and the act of sacrifice / Doutorado / Educação, Conhecimento, Linguagem e Arte / Doutora em Educação

Orientador: Flávio Ribeiro de Oliveira / Dissertação (mestrado) - Universidade Estadual de Campinas, Instituto de Estudos da Linguagem / Made available in DSpace on 2018-08-24T23:09:44Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Soares_MarinaPeixoto_M.pdf: 3795789 bytes, checksum: 6535fed014bae350a69e6c944a1cf5c6 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2014 / Resumo: Esta pesquisa tem como objeto de estudo a comédia grega As Rãs, do poeta Aristófanes (c. 450 a.C.). Nosso principal objetivo é a realização da tradução da peça para o português, buscando preservar as características do estilo do autor e os efeitos cômicos que predominam nas obras do gênero. Além da tradução, elaboramos também uma introdução à peça, visando esclarecer alguns aspectos relacionados à obra que nos pareceram relevantes para sua compreensão durante nossa pesquisa. Por fim, apresentamos alguns comentários que abordam a visão da crítica contemporânea a respeito dessa comédia de Aristófanes / Abstract: The subject of this research is the Greek comedy Frogs, by Aristophanes (c. 450 a.C). Our main goal is the accomplishment of the translation of the play to the Portuguese language, trying to preserve the characteristics of the author¿s style and the comic effects that predominate in the works of this kind. Besides the translation, we also elaborate an introduction to the play, with the aim of clarifying some aspects related to the comedy that seemed relevant to us during our research. At last, we present some commentaries that approach the contemporary criticism of this play / Mestrado / Linguistica / Mestra em Linguística