Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare Dixon Dustin W.
Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare Dixon Dustin W. The gods have much to tell us about performance. The very impossibility of rendering the gods in all their divine…
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Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare Dixon Dustin W.
The gods have much to tell us about performance. The very impossibility of rendering the gods in all their divine splendor in a truly convincing way lies at the intersection of divine power and the power of the theater. When human actors portray deities onstage, such divine epiphanies reveal not only the complexities of mortals playing gods but also the nature of theatrical spectacle itself.
The authors reveal how gods appear onstage both to astound and to dramatize the very machinations by which theatrical performance operates. This book pursues these dynamics on the stages of ancient Athens and Rome as well on those of Renaissance England to shed new light on theatrical performance. Offering an array of case studies featuring both canonical and lesser-studied texts, this volume discusses work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Plautus as well as Beaumont, Heywood,