Author: BAIN, DAVID
Title: Actors & Audience a Study of Asides and Related Conventions in Greek Drama
Description: Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1977. Hardcover. ISBN: 0198147147. Light shelfwear to book. DJ has a few tears and chipping. DJ is price-clipped. ; The aside is a familiar device in European drama, but little has been written about it in connection with the drama in which it orgiinated and developed. In this book it is suggested that it originated in Greek tragedy; asides and some related phenomena in tragedy are collected, and some false notions concerning their number and character are dispelled. The second part of the book deals with New Comedy and is able to eploit many recent discoveries of comic papyri. ; Oxford Classical & Philosophical Monographs; 230 pages. Very Good+ in Good dust jacket .

Keywords: 0198147147 DRAMA Greek Literature Plays & Drama New Comedy Classical Greek & Roman Theater & Theatre


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