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It is ironic, though perhaps understandable, that the surge of interest in tragic performance has not been paralleled with New Comedy, where the iconographic evidence is so much more prolific. The project which has recently started at the University of Glasgow will hopefully work to redress this balance, and promote interest in Menander’s plays, as well as their performance. Its aims are to apply 3D imaging technologies to the ancient artefacts that are among the main visual sources for Greek comic acting style, to conduct practice-based research with reconstructions of the ancient masks, and hence to explore how the extant texts of Menander are written to maximise the expressive resources of mask theatre.1
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Williams, R. (2002). Performance and dramatic discourse in New Comedy. In: Barsby, J. (eds) Greek and Roman Drama: Translation and Performance. J.B. Metzler, Stuttgart. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-476-02908-9_8
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