A Cultural History of Theatre in Antiquity

Martin Revermann is Associate Professor of Classics and Theatre Studies at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada.

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Series Preface

Introduction: Cultural History and the Theatres of Antiquity
Martin Revermann, University of Toronto, Canada

1 Institutional Frameworks: Enabling the Theatrical Event
Martin Revermann, University of Toronto, Canada

2 Social functions? Making the Case for a Functionless Theatre
Sean Gurd, University of Missouri, USA

3 Sexuality and Gender: Off-Stage and Centre-Stage
Ian Ruffell, University of Glasgow, UK

4 The Environment of Theatre: Experiencing Place in the Ancient World
David Wiles, University of Exeter, UK

5 Circulation: Theatre as Mobile Political, Economic and Cultural Capital
Patrick Hadley, University of Utah, USA

6 Interpretations: the Stage and its Interpretive Communities
Martin Revermann, University of Toronto, Canada

7 Communities of Production: Pied Pipers and How to Pay Them; or, the Variegated Finance of Ancient Theatre
Jane Lightfoot, University of Oxford, UK

8 Genres: Drama and Its Many Unhappy Returns
Donald Sells, University of Michigan, USA

9 Technologies of Performance: Machines, Props, Dramaturgy
Peter von Möllendorff, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany
(translated from German by Martin Revermann)

10 Knowledge Transmission: Ancient Archives and Repertoires
Johanna Hanink, Brown University, USA

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