Tragedy in Athens: Performance Space & Theatrical Meaning

ISBN-13: 9780521666152 / Angielski / Miękka / 1999 / 244 str.

Dr David Wiles

Opis

David Wiles explores the performance of tragedy as a spatial practice specific to Athenian culture, at once religious and political. After reviewing controversies and archaeological data regarding the fifth-century performance space, Wiles turns to the chorus and shows how dance mapped out the space for the purposes of any given play. He shows how performance as a whole was organized and, through informative diagrams and accessible analyses, brings the theater of Greek tragedy to life.

Recenzje

'… genuinely original treatment … every page demonstrates that new and important things can still be said about the tragic playwrights of 5th-century Athens'. The Anglo-Hellenic Review

Spis treści

1. The problem of space; 2. The theatre of Dionysus; 3. Focus on the centre point; 4. The mimetic action of the chorus; 5. The chorus: its transformation of space; 6. Left and right, east and west; 7. Inside/outside; 8. The vertical axis; 9. The iconography of sacred space; 10. Orchestra and theatron; Select bibliography; Index.