The Greek theater and its dramaFlickinger, Roy C. (Roy Caston)
History
The Greek theater and its drama
Flickinger, Roy C. (Roy Caston)
Drama -- Technique; Greek drama -- History and criticism; Theater -- Greece -- History -- To 500
[271] In addition to the works mentioned on pp. xvii and xx f., above,
cf. Detscheff, _De Tragoediarum Graecarum Conformatione Scaenica ac
Dramatica_ (1904); Rees, “The Meaning of Parachoregema,” _Classical
Philology_, II (1907), 387 ff.; _The So-called Rule of Three Actors in
the Classical Greek Drama_ (1908); “The Number of the Dramatic Company
in the Period of the Technitae,” _American Journal of Philology_, XXXI
(1910), 43 ff., and “The Three Actor Rule in Menander,” _Classical
Philology_, V (1910), 291 ff.; O’Connor, _Chapters in the History of
Actors and Acting in Ancient Greece_ (1908); Leo, _Der Monolog im Drama_
(1908), and _Plautinische Forschungen²_ (1912), pp. 226 ff.; Listmann,
_Die Technik des Dreigesprächs in der griechischen Tragödie_ (1910);
Kaffenberger, _Das Dreischauspielergesetz in der griechischen Tragödie_
(1911); Foster, _The Divisions in the Plays of Plautus and Terence_
(1913); Stephenson, _Some Aspects of the Dramatic Art of Aeschylus_
(1913); Graf, _Szensiche Untersuchungen zu Menander_ (1914); and Conrad,
_The Technique of Continuous Action in Roman Comedy_ (1915), reviewed by
Flickinger in _Classical Weekly_, X (1917), 147 ff.
Fig. 66 is taken from Baumeister’s _Denkmäler_, Fig. 1637. The apparent
height of the tragic actors is said to have been increased by means of
the ὄγκος projecting above the head and of thick-soled boots (κόθορνοι),
both represented in Fig. 66. The employment of such paraphernalia rests
upon late evidence, however, and has been disputed for fifth-century
tragedy; cf. for example Smith, “The Use of the High-soled Shoe or
Buskin in Greek Tragedy of the Fifth or Fourth Centuries B.C.,” _Harvard
Studies_, XVI (1905), 123 ff. For the costumes of comic actors, see pp.
46 f., above.
[272] Cf. Capps, “The Introduction of Comedy into the City Dionysia,”
_University of Chicago Decennial Publications_, VI, 269, n. 37.
[273] Cf. Tanner, _Transactions of American Philological Association_,
XLVI (1915), 185-87. For Sophocles, cf. Jebb’s _Electra_, p. lvii.
[274] Cf. Rees, _Classical Philology_, V (1910), 291 ff., and
Kaffenberger, _op. cit._, p. 10.
[275] Cf. C. F. Hermann, _De Distributione Personarum inter Histriones in
Tragoediis Graecis_ (1840), pp. 32-34.
[276] Cf. Prescott, “Three Puer-Scenes in Plautus and the Distribution of
Rôles,” _Harvard Studies_, XXI (1910), 44. It ought to be added that some
authorities deny that Prometheus was represented by a dummy, believing
that this tragedy belonged to the three-actor period (see further, p.
228, below).
[277] Cf. Lewes, _Life of Goethe²_, p. 424.
[278] Cf. _Four Plays of Euripides_ (1905), pp. 1 ff.
[279] Cf. the scholium on vs. 93.
[280] Cf. Devrient, _Das Kind auf der antiken Bühne_ (1904).
[281] Cf. _Oxyrhynchus Papyri_, VI (1908), 69.
[282] Cf. Rees, _American Journal of Philology_, XXXI (1910), 43 ff.
[283] Cf. Horace _Ars Poetica_, vs. 192; see also p. 53, n. 1, above.
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