Many dogmas regarding Greek theatre were established by researchers who lacked experience in the mounting of theatrical productions. In his wideranging and provocative study, Clifford Ashby, a theatre historian trained in the practical processes of play production as well as the methods of historical research, takes advantage of his understanding of technical elements to approach his ancient subject from a new perspective. In doing so he challenges many long-held views.Archaeological and written sources relating to Greek classical theatre are diverse, scattered, and disconnected. Ashby's own (and memorable) fieldwork led him to more than one hundred theatre sites in Greece, southern Italy, Sicily, and Albania and as far into modern Turkey as Hellenic civilization had penetrated. From this extensive research, he draws a number of novel revisionist conclusions on the nature of classical theatre architecture and production. The original orchestra shape, for example, was a rectangle or trapezoid rather than a circle. The altar sat along the edge of the orchestra, not at its middle. The scene house was originally designed for a performance event that did not use an up center door. The crane and ekkyklema were simple devices, while the periaktoi probably did not exist before the Renaissance. Greek theatres were not built with attention to Vitruvins' injunction against a southern orientation and were probably sunsited on the basis of seasonal touring. The Greeks arrived at the theatre around mid-morning, not in the cold light of dawn. Only the three-actor rule emerges from this eclectic examination somewhat intact, but with the division of roles reconsidered upon the basis of the actors'performance needs. Ashby also proposes methods that can be employed in future studies of Greek theatre. Final chapters examine the three-actor production of Ion, how one should not approach theatre history, and a shining example of how one should.Ashby's lengthy hands-on training and his knowledge of theatre history provide a broad understanding of the ways that theatre has operated through the ages as well as an ability to extrapolate from production techniques of other times and places.
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这本书的组织结构安排得极其巧妙,它没有采用传统的按时间线索推进的方式,而是以主题切入,展开了一幅宏大的文化拼图。比如,它有一章专门讨论“面具”(Persona)的象征意义,从其宗教起源,到舞台表演的功能性,再到其在社会心理层面的隐喻,层层递进,逻辑严密得像一块经过精雕细琢的帕特农神庙大理石。作者的文笔兼具史学家的精确和文学评论家的灵动,使得那些原本可能枯燥的考证和推论变得引人入胜。我特别欣赏作者在处理那些模棱两可的史料时的审慎态度,他从不轻易下定论,而是更倾向于提供多重可能的阐释路径,鼓励读者自己去参与到历史的建构之中。这种开放式的探讨极大地激发了我的思考,我读完后会立即想回到那些原始文本中,重新审视那些被忽略的细节。这不仅仅是一本学术著作,更像是一份邀请函,邀请我们进入一场跨越两千多年的对话。
评分我一直以为自己对古希腊悲剧的结构和主题已经有了比较全面的了解,但翻开这本书,才发现自己之前的认知多么肤浅。这本书最引人注目的一点,是它对“美学”和“伦理”边界模糊性的探讨。作者没有简单地将悲剧中的“卡塔西斯”(Catharsis)视为一种情绪的宣泄,而是将其置于更广阔的知识论框架下进行审视。书中花了大量篇幅去解析悲剧中的“知识缺失”(Agnosia)和“认知识别”(Recognition)的辩证关系,这使得像《俄狄浦斯王》这样的经典文本焕发出了全新的生命力。它的语言风格非常古典,那种略带沉思和哲理的论述方式,让人在阅读时不得不放慢速度,反复咀嚼每一个段落的深层含义。这与其说是一本戏剧史的概览,不如说是一部关于人类自我认知与命运抗争的哲学随笔。对于那些习惯了快餐式阅读的人来说,这本书可能略显“厚重”,但对于真正渴望深入挖掘文本内在肌理的求知者来说,它无疑是一座亟待攀登的知识高峰。
评分与市面上那些充斥着对喜剧的轻描淡写的作品不同,本书对古希腊“喜剧”的挖掘和分析达到了令人惊叹的深度。作者没有将阿里斯托芬(Aristophanes)的剧作仅仅看作是政治讽刺的工具,而是将其视为古希腊社会中一个至关重要的“安全阀”和“反思空间”。书中有一部分内容聚焦于对旧有权威的颠覆性模仿,以及观众如何在狂欢式的笑声中,暂时逃离城邦日常的严苛规范,从而实现心理上的平衡。这种对喜剧功能性的社会学解读,非常新鲜。作者行文极具画面感,仿佛能让人清晰地看到公元前五世纪雅典集市上,那些被夸张化处理的政治人物和荒诞场景是如何在舞台上被肢解和重构的。读这本书最大的乐趣,就是体会到作者如何娴熟地运用跨学科的研究方法,将人类学、政治学和文学批评熔于一炉,最终呈现出一个立体、充满张力的古希腊戏剧生态。
评分这部关于古代戏剧的著作,着实让人耳目一新,它没有落入窠臼,也没有过多纠缠于那些耳熟能详的剧作家生平与作品的简单罗列。相反,作者似乎更热衷于挖掘那些深埋在历史尘埃中的文化土壤,细致入微地描摹了城邦政治、宗教仪式与剧场空间之间那种复杂而微妙的共生关系。比如,书中对雅典城邦的公民身份如何通过观看悲剧和喜剧得以重新确认和强化的分析,就非常深刻。作者运用了大量社会人类学的视角,将戏剧表演视为一种公共仪式而非单纯的娱乐活动,这一点处理得极其到位。我尤其欣赏它对“观看者”身份的探讨,如何从一个被动的观众转变为一个积极的、参与城邦道德和政治讨论的公民。叙述的节奏把握得恰到好处,既有学术的严谨性,又不失叙事的流畅感,读起来仿佛能闻到狄俄尼索斯节庆时空气中弥漫的香料和汗水的味道。它成功地将冰冷的文本和宏大的历史背景连接起来,构建了一个有血有肉的古代剧场世界。
评分我对这本书的整体印象是:它提供了一种近乎“沉浸式”的阅读体验,让你忘记自己是在阅读一本关于古代文明的书籍。作者对于“剧场建筑”及其与城邦地理位置的关联性的探讨,尤其令人印象深刻。他详细描述了狄俄尼索斯剧场依山而建的自然形态如何影响了声音的传播和观众的视线焦点,并将这种物理结构映射到悲剧叙事中角色地位的高低起伏。这种将物质空间和抽象叙事紧密结合的分析角度,极大地拓宽了我对“舞台”这一概念的理解。在语言风格上,这本书摒弃了晦涩的学术术语,转而采用了一种富有韵律感和节奏感的散文体,使得即便是探讨比较复杂的戏剧理论时,读起来也像是在聆听一场精心编排的演讲。这本书的价值在于,它不仅仅是知识的传递,更是一种审美的再教育,它让我们重新学习如何“看”和“听”古代的戏剧艺术,而非仅仅是“读”它们。
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