Performing Arts · Theatre History & Traditions
A topic within Theatre History & Traditions, itself one of 10 topics in that field and part of Performing Arts.
2 works
A. E. Haigh
Reconstructs how Athenian tragedy and comedy were actually staged — the theatre building, the actors' masks, the chorus's movement — arguing the plays cannot be read apart from the physical conditions of performance.
link checked 17 Sept 2026William Ridgeway
Argues against the then-standard account of tragedy growing out of Dionysiac ritual, tracing its origin instead to hero-cult and worship at the tombs of the dead.
link checked 17 Sept 2026