"...‘Molière on Stage’ takes the reader onstage, backstage and into the audience of Molière’s plays, analyzing the performance of his works in both his own time and in ours. Written by a professional stage director with over fifty years’ experience directing and translating Moli…
Dionysism and comedy: to the memory of my father (1913 - 1999)
by Riu, Xavier
fromGreek studies
"Making this visible via psychoanalytic ideas of retroactivity, Alfie Bown explores how laughter - far from being a mere response to a stimulus - changes the relationship between the present, the past and the future. Bown then investigates this hypothesis in relation to a range …
"Theatrum Arbitri is a literary study dealing with the possible influence of Roman comic drama (comedies of Plautus and Terence, theatre of the Greek and Roman mimes, and fabula Atellana) on the surviving fragments of Petronius' Satyrica." "The theatrical assessment of this nove…
"This volume includes contributions from a team of international experts who address topics lying at the forefront of current research on Greek drama and classical reception studies. Combining a wide range of theoretical perspectives with close readings of specific texts, the es…