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Auteur(s) : Winkler, John J. (1943-1990)
Titre(s) : Rehearsals of manhood [Texte imprimé] : Athenian drama as social practice / John J. Winkler ; [foreword by David M. Halperin]
Publication : Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, copyright 2023
Description matérielle : 1 vol. (XXVI-212 p.) : ill. ; 25 cm
Note(s) : Includes bibliographical references and index
"When John J. Winkler died in 1990, he left a substantially complete manuscript containing
the final version of the project he had undertaken in the last decade of his life:
an original interpretation of the development and meaning of ancient Greek drama.
That manuscript was based on The Martin Classical Lectures at Oberlin College, which
Winkler delivered in September of 1988. The present text has been edited and updated
by classicists David Halperin, Winkler's literary executor, and Kirk Ormand, Winkler's
student and an expert on Greek drama. Rehearsals of Manhood, the final work of a widely
recognized and celebrated classical scholar, proposes an entirely new account of Greek
drama providing an explanation of the social place of Greek drama and its relation
to the gendered organization of Athenian social life. Winkler interprets drama as
a secular manhood ritual, a public aesthetic undertaking focused on the initiation
of boys into manhood and, specifically, on the training, the display, and the representation
of young male warriors. According to Winkler, the chorus of both tragedy and comedy
was composed of young Athenian men of citizen status, about eighteen to twenty years
of age, who were undergoing military training in order to prepare themselves for the
task of warfare; they danced on a rectangular dance floor in a rectangular formation
that recalled the arrangement of the infantry phalanx; they accompanied plays that
often highlighted scenarios of risk faced by young men on the verge of adulthood;
and they performed in a theater whose seating was arranged to display the corporate
body of the male citizenry as a whole, both its democratic equality and its hierarchical
ranking according to degrees of excellence. Winkler does not offer new interpretations
of the texts of Greek plays but a new account of how the very practice of dramatic
performance fit into the social life and gender politics of the Athenian state"
Autre(s) auteur(s) : Halperin, David M. (1952-....). Préfacier
Sujet(s) : Théâtre (genre littéraire) grec -- Thèmes, motifs
Masculinité -- Dans la littérature
Hommes -- Dans la littérature
Indice(s) Dewey :
882.010 9 (23e éd.) = Poésie dramatique et théâtre grecs classiques - Jusque vers 0499 - Histoire et
critique
Identifiants, prix et caractéristiques : ISBN 978-0-691-20648-6 (rel.)
Identifiant de la notice : ark:/12148/cb47552477h
Notice n° :
FRBNF47552477
(notice reprise d'un réservoir extérieur)
Table des matières : Foreword / / David M. Halperin ; ; Hippokleides dances : military training and other
dramas of masculine display -- ; Phallic theatrics : staging the body politic -- ;
Scenarios of risk : cockfighting and Kindunos -- ; An Oscar for Iphigeneia : the canon
according to Aristotle -- ; Appendix I :. Tragōidoi -- ; Appendix II :. Phluakes
-- ; Afterword / / Kirk Ormand.
