Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy by Mueller, Melissa

Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780226312958)

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Format: Hardcover
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Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy by Mueller, Melissa

Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy

$59.00
Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy by Mueller, Melissa

Objects as Actors: Props and the Poetics of Performance in Greek Tragedy

$59.00
Format: Hardcover
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Objects as Actors charts a new approach to Greek tragedy based on an obvious, yet often overlooked, fact: Greek tragedy was meant to be performed. As plays, the works were incomplete without physical items--theatrical props. In this book, Melissa Mueller ingeniously demonstrates the importance of objects in the staging and reception of Athenian tragedy.

As Mueller shows, props such as weapons, textiles, and even letters were often fully integrated into a play's action. They could provoke surprising plot turns, elicit bold viewer reactions, and provide some of tragedy's most thrilling moments. Whether the sword of Sophocles's Ajax, the tapestry in Aeschylus's Agamemnon, or the tablet of Euripides's Hippolytus, props demanded attention as a means of uniting--or disrupting--time, space, and genre.

Insightful and original, Objects as Actors offers a fresh perspective on the central tragic texts--and encourages us to rethink ancient theater as a whole.


Author: Melissa Mueller
ISBN-10: 022631295X
ISBN-13: 9780226312958
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Language: English
Published: 01/08/2016
Pages: 272
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.15lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
Chronicle of Higher Education 01/29/2016 pg. 18
By Melissa Mueller
By Melissa Mueller
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Melissa Mueller is associate professor of classics at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. She has published widely on the topics of tragedy and Homer.

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