Greek Theatre in the Fourth Century BC

by Peter Wilson

Age-old scholarly dogma holds that the death of serious theatre went hand-in-hand with the 'death' of the city-state and that the fourth century BC ushered in an era of theatrical mediocrity offering shallow entertainment to a depoliticised citizenry. The traditional view of fourth-century culture is encouraged and sustained by the absence of dramatic texts in anything more than fragments. Until recently, little attention was paid to an enormous...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3110337487
• ISBN13: 9783110337488
• Release Date: May 2014
• Publisher: de Gruyter
• Length: 590 Pages
• Weight: 3.79 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.4" x 9.3" x 11.6"