Platonic drama and its ancient reception

Platonic drama and its ancient reception

by Charalabopoulos, Nikos G.

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"As prose dramatic texts Plato's dialogues would have been read by their original audience as an alternative type of theatrical composition. The 'paradox' of the dialogue form is explained by his appropriation of the discourse of theatre, the dominant public mode of communication of his time. The oral performance of his works is suggested both by the pragmatics of the publication of literary texts in the classical period and by his original role as a Sokratic dialogue-writer and the creator of …

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  • Full title :Platonic drama and its ancient reception / Nikos G. Charalabopoulos, University of Patras, Greece.

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"As prose dramatic texts Plato's dialogues would have been read by their original audience as an alternative type of theatrical composition. The 'paradox' of the dialogue form is explained by his appropriation of the discourse of theatre, the dominant public mode of communication of his time. The oral performance of his works is suggested both by the pragmatics of the publication of literary texts in the classical period and by his original role as a Sokratic dialogue-writer and the creator of a fourth dramatic genre. Support comes from a number of pieces of evidence, from a statue of Sokrates in the Academy (fourth century BC) to a mosaic of Sokrates in Mytilene (fourth century AD), which point to a centuries-old tradition of treating the dialogues in the context of performance literature and testify to the significance of the image of 'Plato the prose dramatist' for his original and subsequent audiences"--

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Edition Statements

  • Publication Date:2012.

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The Physical Object

  • Description:1 ressource en ligne (xxi, 331 pages) : : illustrations.

Edition Identifiers

  • ISBN:9781139336567, 1139336568, 0511978081, 9780511978081, 1280773499, 9781280773495
  • oclc:on1104456194
  • LC Classification:PA4291
  • Dewey Decimal:184

Table of Contents

1. Setting the stage -- 2. The metatheatre of dialogue -- 3. Performing Plato -- 4. Plato's theatre: the fragments -- 5. Finale -- Appendix: an Academy inscription.

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Subjects

Criticism, interpretation, etc Dialogues (Plato) Greek literature Greek literature -- History and critici… Littérature grecque -- Histoire et crit… Plato

Writers

Charalabopoulos, Nikos G.

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