Narrative Setting and Dramatic PoetryBRILL, 1993 - 178 Seiten This volume evaluates a single element of tragic art, namely the way in which narrative descriptions of place participate in the poetry of tragedy. They join together structures of the theater to create a context for tragic performance, and ultimately reflect upon tragedy's connection to earlier narrative forms and to the traditional tales that regularly supply tragic plots. The first part of this book examines the introductory function of spatial descriptions and the peculiar resources offered to the playwright by cult settings. In the second part, the spatial oppositions, that are inherent structuring devices in traditional tales, are taken up in chapters treating the motif of exile in extant tragedy. |
Inhalt
Introduction | 1 |
1 | 17 |
Narrative Setting and Euripides | 38 |
Supplication and Cult | 59 |
SPATIAL OPPOSITIONS AND THE ENACTMENTS | 88 |
Women Home and Exile | 109 |
Three Who Would Not Come Home | 143 |
A Place Apart | 149 |
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Achilles acting area Aeschylus Agamemnon altar Andromache Andromache's Apollo appeal Argos Arnott Artemis Athenian Athens audience Burnett cave chorus city's connection context Creusa cult settings death defined deity Delphi Dionysus discussion drama dramatic action Electra enacted epic Erechthonius escape Eteocles Eumenides Euripides evidence exile's exploited expression father fifth century foreign function god's goddess gods Greece Greek tragedy Helen Heracles Hermes Hermione hero hero's heroic homecoming Homeric husband identified identity Iliad interior introduce Ion's Iphigenia ISBN 90 island Jason joined Kamerbeek Lemnos locale male marriage Medea Menelaus myth mythic narrative Neoptolemus Odysseus Oedipus at Colonus offer oracle Orestes palace Peleus Philoctetes Phthia physical Pickard-Cambridge 1946 play poet prologue refuge rescue return home ritual scene skene Sophocles space spatial opposition suffered Suppliant Women supplication tale Taurica theater Thebes Theseus Thetis traditional stories tragedians tragic Trojan Trojan War Troy woman Xuthus Zeus γὰρ καὶ