Peter D Arnott

Biographic Data

ID1126261
NAMEPeter D Arnott
GIVEN NAMESPeter D
FAMILY NAMEArnott
SIGNATUREARNOTT P D
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS25
TOTAL CITATIONS21
AUTHOR COUNT25
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1959
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1991
H-INDEX1

  • Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre

    Anthony Lombardy, Peter D ArnottARTICLEThe Classical World1991

    Peter Arnott discusses Greek drama not as an antiquarian study but as a living art form. He removes the plays from the library and places them firmly in the theatre that gave them being. Invoking the practical realities of stagecraft, he illuminates the literary patterns of the plays, the performance disciplines, and the audience responses. Each component of the productions - audience, chorus, actors, costume, speech - is examined in the context …

  • Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre

    Eric Csapo, Peter D ArnottARTICLEPhoenix1991

  • Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre

    Peter D ArnottBOOKPublic and Performance in the…1989

  • The Theatre in Its Time: An Introduction

    Briant Hamor Lee, Peter D Arnott et al.ARTICLETheatre Journal1984

  • The Romans and Their World

    James H Reid, Peter D ArnottARTICLEThe Classical World1971

  • Two Classical Comedies: The Clouds by Aristophanes and the Pot of Gold by Plautus

    John Arthur Hanson, Peter D ArnottARTICLEThe Classical World1969

  • An Introduction to the Greek World

    Anna S Benjamin, Peter D ArnottARTICLEThe Classical World1968

  • Introduction to Classical Drama

    Peter D Arnott, Peter Arnott et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1967

  • Aeschylus, Agamemnon. The Oresteia: Part I

    J Joel Farber, Aeschylus Aeschylus et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1965

  • Terence, the Brothers (Adelphoe)

    Peter D Arnott, Frank O CopleyARTICLEThe Classical World1963

  • Sophocles, Three Tragedies: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra. Translated into English Verse

    Peter D Arnott, Sophocles Sophocles et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1962

  • Three Greek Plays for the Theatre

    Pearl Cleveland Wilson, Peter D ArnottARTICLEThe Classical World1962

  • Greek Scenic Conventions in the Fifth Century B.C

    George F Osmun, Peter D Arnott et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1962Cited by: 21

    This book does not aim to be an archeological survey of any particular theater; it is concerned with the general characteristics of fifth-century production such as the playing space available and the nature of the permanent decoration

  • Barbarians in Greek Tragedy

    Peter D Arnott, Helen H BaconARTICLEThe Classical World1961

  • The Alphabet Tragedy of Callias

    Peter D ArnottARTICLEClassical Philology1960

  • An Introduction to the Greek Theatre

    Donald Norman Levin, Peter D ArnottARTICLEThe Classical World1960

  • An Introduction to the Greek Theatre

    Geoffrey B Riddehough, Peter D ArnottARTICLEPhoenix1960

  • Comedy: Aristophanes and the Birds

    Open AccessPeter D ArnottCHAPTERIntroduction to the Greek Theatre1959

    By an accident of history, Greek comedy and Aristophanes are almost synonymous. Eleven of his plays are the only complete examples to come down to us. His predecessors and contemporaries are represented by a large body of fragments of varying length and tributes to their powers in other authors, his successors by two near-complete plays of Menander, more fragments, and what can be deduced of the Greek plays from their Roman imitations. If the wor…

  • The Theatre and its Equipment

    Open AccessPeter D ArnottCHAPTERIntroduction to the Greek Theatre1959

    In the structure of its theatre, as in the structure of its plays, Greek drama remembered its origin. As the most important element was the chorus, so the most important part of the theatre, and its distinctive feature, was the place where the chorus sang and danced. Rain is rare in Greece, and the people did not need to bother with covered theatres; the dancing-place, or orchestra, was simply a large level space cleared at the foot of a rise fro…

  • Ancient and Modern

    Open AccessPeter D ArnottCHAPTERIntroduction to the Greek Theatre1959

    All over Greece, and on the coast of Asia Minor and in Sicily where once the great Greek colonies flourished, may be found ruins of ancient theatres, a happy hunting-ground for historian and archaeologist. Besides the important centres, Athens, Corinth, Epidauros, Delphi, Delos, there are the remains of many small theatres built for local festivities. These are especially plentiful in the country round Athens — Oropus and Thoricos, for example, a…

  • Roman Comedy: Plautus and the Menaechmi

    Open AccessPeter D ArnottCHAPTERIntroduction to the Greek Theatre1959

    When the Romans conquered Greece they took over many of its arts. 'Vanquished Greece', says Horace, 'subdued its savage captor.' Early Rome had developed literary traditions of its own, rough and unpolished but with a crude vigour that would have developed with time. Faced with the finished products of Greek culture this native tradition quickly succumbed. Greek influence pervaded the arts of the Roman empire for centuries. At best, it inspired e…

  • The Origins and Structure of the Plays

    Open AccessPeter D ArnottCHAPTERIntroduction to the Greek Theatre1959

    Ancient Greece is justly regarded as the birthplace of the drama. It is true that records of some sort of 'passion play' survive from Egypt, but it is doubtful whether these religious festivals were dramatic in any strict sense of the word. In the pre-Hellenic civilization of Crete, too, excavations have uncovered large open arenas which may have been used for representations of some sort, but whether for plays, or exhibitions of animals, such as…

  • Early Tragedy: Aeschylus and theAgamemnon

    Open AccessPeter D ArnottCHAPTERIntroduction to the Greek Theatre1959

    Aeschylus was born about 525 B.C., and his early life covered a time of vital importance to Athens both at home and abroad. In the city itself the autocratic rule of the tyrants was overthrown and a democracy established which increased in power and efficiency throughout his lifetime. The turn of the century brought Persian invasion, the destruction of much that was best and most sacred in old Athens, and the wonderful defeat of the foreign armie…

  • Satyr Play: The Cyclops

    Open AccessPeter D ArnottCHAPTERIntroduction to the Greek Theatre1959

    Polonius would have described the satyr play as tragical-comical-pastoral, and, if he truly represents the Elizabethan noble with his experience of courtly entertainments, would have felt more at home with it than we do. It comes nearer to the masque than anything we have to-day. Satyr play goes back to something more primitive than do either tragedy or comedy. It has the tragic form but few of its virtues. Played as an afterpiece to a trilogy, i…

  • An Introduction to the Greek Theatre

    Open AccessPeter D Arnott, Peter ArnottBOOKIntroduction to the Greek Theatre1959