performance Archives - Franklin Humanities Institute https://humanitiesfutures.org/tag/performance/ Humanities Futures Fri, 14 Nov 2025 19:21:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 An Alternative Paradigm for Studying and Performing Athenian Drama https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/alternative-paradigm-studying-performing-athenian-drama/ Fri, 03 Feb 2017 15:36:53 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=1928 Ancient Athenian drama is most often viewed through the lens of contemporary professional theater in which there is not necessarily any social, structural, or political connection between theater and audience. Closer examination reveals, however, that this drama much more closely resembles modern community theater, which has strong ties to local issues, politics, and audiences.

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]]> Ancient Comedy, Women’s Lives: Finding Social History and Seeing the Present in Classical Comedy https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/ancient-comedy-womens-lives-finding-social-history-seeing-present-classical-comedy/ Thu, 10 Nov 2016 09:58:03 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=1355 This essay proposes that the study of Classics, the ancient Greco-Roman world, remains vital for the future of humanities and, indeed, for the future of the university.

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]]> On Close Reading and Sound Recording https://humanitiesfutures.org/papers/close-reading-sound-recording/ Mon, 24 Oct 2016 17:41:09 +0000 https://humanitiesfutures.org/?post_type=papers&p=1654 The emerging interdisciplinary nexus of sound studies has brought us rich sound-centered histories and ethnographies and opened up illuminating theoretical questions about the ontologies of sound, music, and the voice.

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