Performing Gods in Classical Antiquity and the Age of Shakespeare

by Dustin W. Dixon and John S. Garrison

Book Overview

The gods have much to tell us about performance. 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 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. This book pursues these dynamics on the stages of ancient...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1350239437
• ISBN13: 9781350239432
• Release Date: December 2022
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.66 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"