附註:Originally published: 2007.
103年科技部補助人文及社會科學研究圖書設備計畫規劃主題:藝術學:全球化與劇場跨界
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Pt. I. Komasts and predramatic ritual -- Introduction / Thomas H. Carpenter -- The corpus of Komast vases / Tyler Jo Smith -- Komasts, mythic imaginary, and ritual / Cornelia Isler-Kerenyi -- Let's hear it for the fat man / J. Richard Green -- Discussion / Thomas H. Carpenter -- Pt. II. Emergence of drama -- Introduction and discussion / Gregory Nagy -- From hymn to tragedy / David Depew -- Myths of ritual in Athenian vase-paintings of silens / Guy Hedreen -- From ritual to narrative / Matthias Steinhart -- "And now all the world shall dance" / Barbara Kowalzig -- Pt. III. Comparing other cultures -- Introduction / Kimberley C. Patton -- Ritual drama in ancient Egypt / Ronald J. Leprohon -- Ritual and performance, dance and drama in ancient Japan / Günter Zobel -- Representation in European devotional rituals / Nils Holger Petersen -- Discussion / Kimberley C. Patton -- Pt. IV. From ritual to drama -- From ritual to drama / Richard Seaford.
