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In this groundbreaking, interdisciplinary study, Andrew Walker White explores the origins of Byzantine ritual - the rites of the early Greek Orthodox Church - and its unique relationship with traditional theatre. Tracing the secularization of pagan theatre, the rise of rhetoric …
The first full-length, interdisciplinary study of the Greek performing arts - theatre, rhetoric and ritual - between antiquity and the Renaissance.
This first general history of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of the Modern Greek state in 1830 marks a radical departure from traditional methods of historiography. We like to think of history unfolding continuously, in an evolutionary form, but the story…
This first general history of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of the Modern Greek state in 1830 marks a radical departure from traditional methods of historiography. We like to think of history unfolding continuously, in an evolutionary form, but the story…
The long twilight of ancient theatre and drama -- Byzantium: high culture without theatre or dramatic literature? -- Re-inventing theatre: Renaissance and baroque Crete under Venetian rule (16th/17th century) -- Shaping a theatre tradition: the Ionian islands from Venetian to Br…
The long twilight of ancient theatre and drama -- Byzantium: high culture without theatre or dramatic literature? -- Re-inventing theatre: Renaissance and baroque Crete under Venetian rule (16th/17th century) -- Shaping a theatre tradition: the Ionian islands from Venetian to Br…
This first general history of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of the Modern Greek state in 1830 marks a radical departure from traditional methods of historiography. We like to think of history unfolding continuously, in an evolutionary form, but the story…
This first general history of Greek theatre from Hellenistic times to the foundation of the Modern Greek state in 1830 marks a radical departure from traditional methods of historiography. We like to think of history unfolding continuously, in an evolutionary form, but the story…