Mary‐Kay Gamel
Biographic Data
| ID | 5635598 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary‐Kay Gamel |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary‐Kay |
| FAMILY NAME | Gamel |
| SIGNATURE | GAMEL M K |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of California, Santa Cruz |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 17 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1984 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2018 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Putting Ancient Drama Reception into Action
Using performance to teach ancient drama has many advantages. It teaches students that ancient plays were written for performance, not reading, and includes many theatrical aspects of the dramas (space, sound, light, movement, costumes, props, actor and audience reactions, and much more). Performance also engages the students in the characters and issues of the plays, provoking their responses and engagement both as individuals and as a group, le…
Greek Drama on the U.S. West Coast, 1970–2013
Can ‘Democratic’ Modern Stagings of Ancient Drama be ‘Authentic’?
What criteria can be used to evaluate the ‘authenticity’ of later stagings of ancient Mediterranean drama? Using concepts drawn from aesthetic theory and performance studies, different definitions of authenticity are proposed, which can be used to describe, analyzes, and evaluate modern stagings. The six methods of authenticity proposed are nominal/historical, expressive, processual, structural, inductive, and critical, and examples of each kind …
Women and the Comic Plot in Menander by Ariana Traill
BOOK REV1EWS/COMPTES RENDUS Women and the Comic Plot in Menander. By Ariana Traill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008. Pp. 301. Menander's importance in the history of European drama cannot be overestimated, and the discovery in the twentieth century of texts of his plays is a thrilling development. As Balme puts it: "Like a true comic heroine, Comedy herself has finally been reunited with her father after some twelve centuries of separ…
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
From Thesmophoriazousai to the Julie Thesmo Show
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy (review)
In this deeply thoughtful book, Helene Foley argues that Athenian tragic playwrights found gender a valuable tool for thinking about the social order and confronting intractable social and philosophical problems. Unlike readers who see in tragedy only validation of the Athenian sex-gender system, Foley sees tragedy raising questions and destabilizing accepted ideas. By aiming "to capture the strangeness and difference of Greek representations of …
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…
Language and Literature
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…
Language and Literature
From Thesmophoriazousai to the Julie Thesmo Show
Language and Literature
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…
From Thesmophoriazousai to the Julie Thesmo Show
Female Acts in Greek Tragedy (review)
In this deeply thoughtful book, Helene Foley argues that Athenian tragic playwrights found gender a valuable tool for thinking about the social order and confronting intractable social and philosophical problems. Unlike readers who see in tragedy only validation of the Athenian sex-gender system, Foley sees tragedy raising questions and destabilizing accepted ideas. By aiming "to capture the strangeness and difference of Greek representations of …
Hrotsvit of Gandersheim
Women and the Comic Plot in Menander by Ariana Traill
BOOK REV1EWS/COMPTES RENDUS Women and the Comic Plot in Menander. By Ariana Traill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. 2008. Pp. 301. Menander's importance in the history of European drama cannot be overestimated, and the discovery in the twentieth century of texts of his plays is a thrilling development. As Balme puts it: "Like a true comic heroine, Comedy herself has finally been reunited with her father after some twelve centuries of separ…
Can ‘Democratic’ Modern Stagings of Ancient Drama be ‘Authentic’?
What criteria can be used to evaluate the ‘authenticity’ of later stagings of ancient Mediterranean drama? Using concepts drawn from aesthetic theory and performance studies, different definitions of authenticity are proposed, which can be used to describe, analyzes, and evaluate modern stagings. The six methods of authenticity proposed are nominal/historical, expressive, processual, structural, inductive, and critical, and examples of each kind …
Greek Drama on the U.S. West Coast, 1970–2013
Putting Ancient Drama Reception into Action
Using performance to teach ancient drama has many advantages. It teaches students that ancient plays were written for performance, not reading, and includes many theatrical aspects of the dramas (space, sound, light, movement, costumes, props, actor and audience reactions, and much more). Performance also engages the students in the characters and issues of the plays, provoking their responses and engagement both as individuals and as a group, le…
Art (8 works) · History (7 works) · Literature (6 works) · Aesthetics (4 works) · Classical Antiquity Studies (4 works) · Drama (4 works) · Philosophy (4 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works)