Actors Icons Ancient Theater by Csapo, Eric

Actors Icons Ancient Theater (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9781405135368)

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Format: Hardcover
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$139.95
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Actors Icons Ancient Theater by Csapo, Eric

Actors Icons Ancient Theater

$139.95
Actors Icons Ancient Theater by Csapo, Eric

Actors Icons Ancient Theater

$139.95
Format: Hardcover
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Actors and Icons of the Ancient Theater examines actors and their popular reception from the origins of theater in Classical Greece to the Roman Empire
  • Presents a highly original viewpoint into several new and contested fields of study
  • Offers the first systematic survey of evidence for the spread of theater outside Athens and the impact of the expansion of theater upon actors and dramatic literature
  • Addresses a study of the privatization of theater and reveals how it was driven by political interests
  • Challenges preconceived notions about theater history


Author: Eric Csapo
ISBN-10: 1405135360
ISBN-13: 9781405135368
Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell
Language: English
Published: 02/01/2010
Pages: 248
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 9.20h x 6.10w x 0.90d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 01/01/2011
By Eric Csapo
By Eric Csapo
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Eric Csapo is Professor and Chair of Classics at the University of Sydney, Australia. An expert in ancient drama and in the material, social and economic history of the ancient theatre, Csapo is the author of Theories of Mythology (Blackwell 2005) and, with W. J. Slater, Context of Ancient Drama (1995). Along with P. Wilson, Csapo is currently preparing a three-volume social and economic history of the classical Greek theatre (500-300 BC).

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