caa a22 4500 388082046 CHVBK 20180307125219.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130e199910 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1093/gr/46.2.188 doi S0017383500026255 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1093/gr/46.2.188 Marshall C. W. Some Fifth-Century Masking Conventions [Elektronische Daten] [C. W. Marshall] Does it matter that all fifth-century staged performance was masked? Modern discussions of fifth-century drama focus almost exclusively on the words of the text, for that is what survives to us, and there is a sound methodology in this, since in a theatre that held over 15,000 people aural appreciation was central. I wish to isolate the amount of information that was communicated to the audience by masks, and so discover what then can be incorporated into modern studies of ancient staging, and in particular to determine what visual details existed for the ancient audience to help them understand ‘character'. Direct evidence is slight, and this must remain a brief overview. Nevertheless, reasonable deductions from the plays allow for a clear appreciation of what was the essential information conveyed by fifth-century masks. Copyright © The Classical Association 1999 Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press 46/2(1999-10), 188-202 0017-3835 46:2<188 1999 46 GAR https://doi.org/10.1093/gr/46.2.188 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1093/gr/46.2.188 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Marshall C. W. NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Greece and Rome Cambridge University Press 46/2(1999-10), 188-202 0017-3835 46:2<188 1999 46 GAR CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge