Tragedy in Athens : performance space and theatrical meaning /

• Main Author: Wiles, David
• Format: eBook
• Language: English
• Published: New York : Cambridge University Press, 1997.
• Series: NetLibrary.; EBSCO eBook Collection.
• Subjects: To 500; Theater > Greece > Athens > History > To 500.; Theaters > Greece > Athens > History > To 500.; Greek drama (Tragedy) > History and criticism.; PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > History & Criticism.; Greek drama (Tragedy); Theater.; Theaters.; Greece > Athens.; Electronic books.; Criticism, interpretation, etc.; History.

This book examines the performance of Greek tragedy in the classical Athenian theatre. Whilst post structuralist criticism of Greek tragedy has tended to focus on the literary text, the analysis of stagecraft and the theatre has been markedly conservative in its methodology. David Wiles corrects tha...

Table of Contents:

• The problem of space
• The theatre of Dionysus
• Focus on the centre point
• The mimetic action of the chorus
• The chorus: its transformation of space
• Left and right, east and west
• Inside/outside
• The vertical axis
• The iconography of sacred space
• Orchestra and theatron
• Select bibliography
• Index.