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BOOK REVIEWS 311 part of the psychological effect. Costume, mask and decoration are the symbolic link between the life of the actors and audience. Thus, in the archaic and early classical periods (534-465) from Peisistratos to Kimon or from Thespis to Aeschylus, the ceremonial costume, the Persian tiara as the symbol of royalty, the movements of the chorus in the wide orchestra have a complex meaning like that of primitive speech. In the classical period of Pericles and the Peloponnesian war (465-404), of Sophocles and Euripides, an experimental background is developed, scene painting begins to give illusion in harmony with the clear language of a more sophisticated age. In the Hellenistic Age the background building is a bourgeois house, the costume that of everyday life and all symbolism disappears. Short notes, pp. 81-85, a selected bibliography, pp. 87-88, and an index, pp. 89-95, add to the usefulness of this well-written book. It is a satisfaction to the reviewer that the new light thrown by modern sociology and psychology on the Greek theater has in no way altered the picture drawn of its development in her History of the Greek and Roman Theater, 1939. This book as well as t

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Author

Wilhelmina van Ingen Elarth; Gladys R. Davidson; Dorothy Burr Thompson

Published

1944

Language

EN

Field

Arts and Humanities (Social Sciences)