Cultural History of Theatre in Antiquity

Martin Revermann is Associate Professor of Classics and Theatre Studies at the University of Toronto at Mississauga, Canada.

This book surely makes a significant contribution to the study of the theatrical experience of ancient Greeks and Romans … Scholars from classics, theatre history, or performance studies can find fresh and compelling interventions in this collection.

• List of IllustrationsNotes on ContributorsSeries PrefaceIntroduction: Cultural History and the Theatres of AntiquityMartin Revermann, University of Toronto, Canada1 Institutional Frameworks: Enabling the Theatrical EventMartin Revermann, University of Toronto, Canada2 Social functions? Making the Case for a Functionless TheatreSean Gurd, University of Missouri, USA3 Sexuality and Gender: Off-Stage and Centre-StageIan Ruffell, University of Glasgow, UK4 The Environment of Theatre: Experiencing Place in the Ancient WorldDavid Wiles, University of Exeter, UK5 Circulation: Theatre as Mobile Political, Economic and Cultural CapitalPatrick Hadley, University of Utah, USA6 Interpretations: the Stage and its Interpretive CommunitiesMartin Revermann, University of Toronto, Canada7 Communities of Production: Pied Pipers and How to Pay Them; or, the Variegated Finance of Ancient TheatreJane Lightfoot, University of Oxford, UK8 Genres: Drama and Its Many Unhappy ReturnsDonald Sells, University of Michigan, USA9 Technologies of Performance: Machines, Props, DramaturgyPeter von Möllendorff, Justus-Liebig University Giessen, Germany(translated from German by Martin Revermann)10 Knowledge Transmission: Ancient Archives and RepertoiresJohanna Hanink, Brown University, USANotesBibliographyIndex