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Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC (Hardcover)
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Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC (Hardcover)
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Age-old scholarly dogma holds that the death of serious theatre
went hand-in-hand with the 'death' of the city-state and that the
fourth century BC ushered in an era of theatrical mediocrity
offering shallow entertainment to a depoliticised citizenry. The
traditional view of fourth-century culture is encouraged and
sustained by the absence of dramatic texts in anything more than
fragments. Until recently, little attention was paid to an enormous
array of non-literary evidence attesting, not only the sustained
vibrancy of theatrical culture, but a huge expansion of theatre
throughout (and even beyond) the Greek world. Epigraphic,
historiographic, iconographic and archaeological evidence indicates
that the fourth century BC was an age of exponential growth in
theatre. It saw: the construction of permanent stone theatres
across and beyond the Mediterranean world; the addition of
theatrical events to existing festivals; the creation of entirely
new contexts for drama; and vast investment, both public and
private, in all areas of what was rapidly becoming a major
'industry'. This is the first book to explore all the evidence for
fourth century ancient theatre: its architecture, drama,
dissemination, staging, reception, politics, social impact, finance
and memorialisation.
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