Didaskalia

Didaskalia [διδασκαλία] was the general term used by the Greeks for the putting on of a dramatic production at any of the festivals whether it be dithyramb, tragedy, comedy or satyr play. All involved the teaching (didaskein [διδάσκειν] ) of choruses by poets or playwrights in their performance. Didaskalia meant the training of the chorus and actors, of their lines, and dance and song formations, It came to mean the organisation of the production itself, whether that was single play or a group of plays.  The didaskalia  of a poet could mean his entire lifetime's output

References


Simon Hornblower; Antony Spawforth; Esther Eidinow (2012). The Oxford Classical Dictionary. didaskalia: OUP Oxford. pp. 449–. ISBN 978-0-19-954556-8.

John E. Thorburn (2005), The Facts on File Companion to Classical Drama, Didaskalia: Infobase Publishing, pp. 172–, ISBN 978-0-8160-7498-3

George William Mallory Harrison; Vaios Liapēs; Vayos Liapis (2013). Performance in Greek and Roman Theatre. BRILL. ISBN 90-04-24457-3.

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