David Wiles
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1077178 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | David Wiles |
| NOMBRES | David |
| APELLIDO | Wiles |
| FIRMA | WILES D |
| AFILIACIONES | Royal Holloway University of London |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2226-7622 |
| VERIFICADO | Sí |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 23 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 33 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 22 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 1 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1988 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2024 |
| ÍNDICE H | 2 |
Democracy, Theatre and Performance
The Players' Advice to Hamlet
Hamlet is a characteristic intellectual more inclined to lecture actors about their craft than listen to them, and is a precursor of Enlightenment figures like Diderot and Lessing. This book is a quest for the voice of early professional actors, drawing on English, French and other European sources to distinguish the methods of professionals from the theories of intellectual amateurs. David Wiles challenges the orthodoxy that all serious discussi…
Players' Advice to Hamlet
Cambridge Companion to Theatre History
The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History
Scholars, amateur historians and actors have shaped theatre history in different ways at different times and in different places. This Companion offers students and general readers a series of accessible and engaging essays on the key aspects of studying and writing theatre history. The diverse international team of contributors investigates how theatre history has been constructed, showing how historical facts are tied to political and artistic …
Medieval, renaissance and early modern theatre
All historians divide the past into periods, distinguishing moments of decisive change from times of relative stability. There is no other way to give the past a shape and thereby perceive it as something other than a random stream of events. Every label we put upon a historical period is already an interpretation and contains a story embedded within it. There is no escaping from this process into objectivity. Telling the story of the past in ter…
Greek Theatre and the Legitimation of Slavery
Shakespeare's Clown
Aristotle’s Poetics and ancient dramatic theory
Aristotle (384-322 BC) was the greatest polymath of antiquity, whose aim was to create a systematic science of everything. He wrote about social policy, personal morality, logic and cosmology, but is perhaps most impressive in the field of biology. For two millennia, no one would improve upon his applied research into the different forms of animal life. Amidst this huge intellectual output, we find at the end of his Collected Works a set of conde…
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part …
Translating Greek Theatre
Nature in Asian Indigenous Traditions
This paper surveys the recent literature available for the study of the interaction between religion and nature within indigenous Asian traditions. Anyone engaging in this course of study must consider work from a variety of scholarly fields and engage with debates concerning definitions of the term "indigenous" in different Asian contexts. While this article does not represent every indigenous group and tradition of Asia, it nonetheless attempts…
Greek Theatre Performance
In this fascinating and accessible book, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre to students and enthusiasts interested in knowing how the plays were performed. Theatre was a ceremony bound up with fundamental activities in ancient Athenian life and Wiles explores those elements which created the theatre of the time. Actors rather than writers are the book's main concern and Wiles examines how the actor used the resources of story-telling, d…
Crossing the Stages
Tragedy in Athens
Tragedy in Athens
This book examines the performance of Greek tragedy in the classical Athenian theatre. Whilst post structuralist criticism of Greek tragedy has tended to focus on the literary text, the analysis of stagecraft and the theatre has been markedly conservative in its methodology. David Wiles corrects that balance, exploring the performance of tragedy as a spatial practice specific to Athenian culture, at once religious and political. Athenian concepti…
The Masks of Menander
The Masks of Menander
List of illustrations Abbreviations etc. Preface 1. Text and performance 2. Space 3. The system of masks 4. Masks East and West: contrasts and comparisons 5. The Roman mask 6. The four mask genera 7. Costume and movement 8. Language and voice Bibliography Index
Ageing and reminiscence
Life review reminiscence is a growing area of interest in working with the aged, but it has not yet attracted much attention in the Australian gerontological literature. Reminiscence is important, though, both in terms of seniors' perceptions of the past and perspectives on the present. Such reminiscence processes have implications not only for history, but also for social gerontology, social policy, and social work practice. This article address…
The Masks of Menander
The Masks of Menander
The Masks of Menander
The Staging of the Recognition Scene in the Choephoroi
The appearance of two new editions of the Choephoroi in 1986 has prompted me to reexamine the theatrical logic of the recognition scene. Anthony Bowen's student edition (Bristol, 1986) offers a curious contrast. Bowen is alert to the music of the choruses, and describes them as ‘a feast in themselves’ (p. 43). He remarks with reference to the strophic verse that ‘it is surprising how well these works have come down to us’ (p. 41). When he discuss…
The Masks of Menander
List of illustrations Abbreviations etc. Preface 1. Text and performance 2. Space 3. The system of masks 4. Masks East and West: contrasts and comparisons 5. The Roman mask 6. The four mask genera 7. Costume and movement 8. Language and voice Bibliography Index
Greek Theatre Performance
In this fascinating and accessible book, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre to students and enthusiasts interested in knowing how the plays were performed. Theatre was a ceremony bound up with fundamental activities in ancient Athenian life and Wiles explores those elements which created the theatre of the time. Actors rather than writers are the book's main concern and Wiles examines how the actor used the resources of story-telling, d…
The Staging of the Recognition Scene in the Choephoroi
The appearance of two new editions of the Choephoroi in 1986 has prompted me to reexamine the theatrical logic of the recognition scene. Anthony Bowen's student edition (Bristol, 1986) offers a curious contrast. Bowen is alert to the music of the choruses, and describes them as ‘a feast in themselves’ (p. 43). He remarks with reference to the strophic verse that ‘it is surprising how well these works have come down to us’ (p. 41). When he discuss…
The Masks of Menander
The Staging of the Recognition Scene in the Choephoroi
The appearance of two new editions of the Choephoroi in 1986 has prompted me to reexamine the theatrical logic of the recognition scene. Anthony Bowen's student edition (Bristol, 1986) offers a curious contrast. Bowen is alert to the music of the choruses, and describes them as ‘a feast in themselves’ (p. 43). He remarks with reference to the strophic verse that ‘it is surprising how well these works have come down to us’ (p. 41). When he discuss…
The Masks of Menander
The Masks of Menander
Ageing and reminiscence
Life review reminiscence is a growing area of interest in working with the aged, but it has not yet attracted much attention in the Australian gerontological literature. Reminiscence is important, though, both in terms of seniors' perceptions of the past and perspectives on the present. Such reminiscence processes have implications not only for history, but also for social gerontology, social policy, and social work practice. This article address…
The Masks of Menander
The Masks of Menander
The Masks of Menander
List of illustrations Abbreviations etc. Preface 1. Text and performance 2. Space 3. The system of masks 4. Masks East and West: contrasts and comparisons 5. The Roman mask 6. The four mask genera 7. Costume and movement 8. Language and voice Bibliography Index
Tragedy in Athens
This book examines the performance of Greek tragedy in the classical Athenian theatre. Whilst post structuralist criticism of Greek tragedy has tended to focus on the literary text, the analysis of stagecraft and the theatre has been markedly conservative in its methodology. David Wiles corrects that balance, exploring the performance of tragedy as a spatial practice specific to Athenian culture, at once religious and political. Athenian concepti…
Tragedy in Athens
Greek Theatre Performance
In this fascinating and accessible book, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre to students and enthusiasts interested in knowing how the plays were performed. Theatre was a ceremony bound up with fundamental activities in ancient Athenian life and Wiles explores those elements which created the theatre of the time. Actors rather than writers are the book's main concern and Wiles examines how the actor used the resources of story-telling, d…
Crossing the Stages
Nature in Asian Indigenous Traditions
This paper surveys the recent literature available for the study of the interaction between religion and nature within indigenous Asian traditions. Anyone engaging in this course of study must consider work from a variety of scholarly fields and engage with debates concerning definitions of the term "indigenous" in different Asian contexts. While this article does not represent every indigenous group and tradition of Asia, it nonetheless attempts…
Aristotle’s Poetics and ancient dramatic theory
Aristotle (384-322 BC) was the greatest polymath of antiquity, whose aim was to create a systematic science of everything. He wrote about social policy, personal morality, logic and cosmology, but is perhaps most impressive in the field of biology. For two millennia, no one would improve upon his applied research into the different forms of animal life. Amidst this huge intellectual output, we find at the end of his Collected Works a set of conde…
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part …
Translating Greek Theatre
Shakespeare's Clown
Greek Theatre and the Legitimation of Slavery
The Cambridge Companion to Theatre History
Scholars, amateur historians and actors have shaped theatre history in different ways at different times and in different places. This Companion offers students and general readers a series of accessible and engaging essays on the key aspects of studying and writing theatre history. The diverse international team of contributors investigates how theatre history has been constructed, showing how historical facts are tied to political and artistic …
Medieval, renaissance and early modern theatre
All historians divide the past into periods, distinguishing moments of decisive change from times of relative stability. There is no other way to give the past a shape and thereby perceive it as something other than a random stream of events. Every label we put upon a historical period is already an interpretation and contains a story embedded within it. There is no escaping from this process into objectivity. Telling the story of the past in ter…
Cambridge Companion to Theatre History
The Players' Advice to Hamlet
Hamlet is a characteristic intellectual more inclined to lecture actors about their craft than listen to them, and is a precursor of Enlightenment figures like Diderot and Lessing. This book is a quest for the voice of early professional actors, drawing on English, French and other European sources to distinguish the methods of professionals from the theories of intellectual amateurs. David Wiles challenges the orthodoxy that all serious discussi…
Players' Advice to Hamlet
Democracy, Theatre and Performance
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