| Description |
vi, 448 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Machine derived contents note: Table of contents for The play of space : spatial transformation in Greek tragedy / Rush Rehm. -- Bibliographic record and links to related information available from the Library of Congress catalog -- Information from electronic data provided by the publisher. May be incomplete or contain other coding. -- LIST OF FIGURES vii -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS ix -- A NOTE TO THE READER xi -- Introduction 1 -- CHAPTER ONE: The Theater and Athenian Spatial Practice 35 -- The Theater of Dionysus 37 -- The Sanctuary of Dionysus Eleuthereus 41 -- The City Dionysia: Procession, Sacrifice, and the Secular 44 -- Inside Out, Outside In: Land, Livelihood, and Living Space in the Polis 54 -- CHAPTER TWO: Space for Returns 76 -- The Oresteia: Homecoming and Its Returns 77 -- Heracles and Home 100 -- CHAPTER THREE: Eremetic Space 114 -- Antigone: Desolation Takes the Stage 115 -- Ajax: Alone in Space, In and Out of Time 123 -- Philoctetes: The Island eremia 138 -- Prometheus Bound: The Ends of the Earth 156 -- CHAPTER FOUR: Space and the Body 168 -- Hecuba: The Body as Measure 175 -- Euripides' Electra: The Intimate Body 187 -- The Bacchae: The Theatrical Body 200 -- CHAPTER FIVE: Space, Time, and Memory: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus 215 -- CHAPTER SIX: Space and the Other 236 -- Persians 239 -- The Other Medea: Woman, Barbarian, Exile, Athenian 251 -- Conclusion 270 -- APPENDIX: Theories of Space 273 -- Notes 297 -- Bibliography 405 -- Index 435 -- Library of Congress subject headings for this publication: Greek drama (Tragedy) History and criticism, Space and time in literature, Theater Greece |
| Summary |
Is "space" a thing, a container, an abstraction, a metaphor, or a social construct? This much is certain: space is part and parcel of the theater, of what it is and how it works. In The Play of Space, noted classicist-director Rush Rehm offers a strikingly original approach to the spatial parameters of Greek tragedy as performed in the open-air theater of Dionysus. Emphasizing the interplay between natural place and fictional setting, between the world visible to the audience and that evoked by individual tragedies, Rehm argues for an ecology of the ancient theater, one that "nests" fifth-cent |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [405]-433) and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Greek drama (Tragedy)
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Theater -- Greece.
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Theater -- Greece -- Athens -- History.
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Theaters -- Greece -- Athens -- History.
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Theater -- History -- To 500.
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Space and time in literature.
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Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
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| SUBJECT |
Outer space -- In literature
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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History.
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| LC no. |
2003272155 |
| ISBN |
0691058091 acid-free paper |
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