Format:
1 online resource (xvi, 249 pages)
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ISBN:
9780520393097
Content:
This is the first book to approach the visuality of ancient Greek drama through the lens of theater phenomenology. Gathering evidence from tragedy, comedy, satyr play, and vase painting, Naomi Weiss argues that, from its very beginnings, Greek theater in the fifth century BCE was understood as a complex interplay of actuality and virtuality. Classical drama frequently exposes and interrogates potential viewing experiences within the theatron--literally, "the place for seeing." Weiss shows how, in so doing, it demands distinctive modes of engagement from its audiences. Examining plays and pottery with attention to the instability and ambiguity inherent in visual perception, Seeing Theater provides an entirely new model for understanding this ancient art form.
Content:
Intro -- Cover -- Series Editors -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Acknowledgments -- Note on Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations -- Introduction -- Phenomenology, Aristotle, and Classical Greek Drama -- Theōrein and Seeing Theater -- The "Play of Actuality" beyond Fifth-Century Theater -- Engaged Spectatorship -- Genre and Scope -- 1. Opening Spaces -- Tragic and Comic Space -- Seeing the Setting -- Staged Spectatorship -- Seeing Theater, Seeing Assembly -- Atopic Beginnings -- The Phenomenology of Space in the Classical Greek Theater -- 2. Seeing What -- Is This That? Aeschylus's Theoroi -- Visual Indeterminacy in Aeschylus's Suppliants -- Winging with Words in Aristophanes's Birds -- 3. Pain Between Bodies -- Dustheatos -- Blinded Bodies I: Euripides's Cyclops and Hecuba -- Blinded Bodies II: Sophocles's Oedipus the King -- Sympathetic Bodies: [Aeschylus's] Prometheus Bound -- Pleasure in Pain -- 4. Pots and Plays -- Actor, Mask, Costume -- The Basel Chorus Krater -- The London Pandora Krater -- The Naples Birds Krater -- Epilogue -- Works Cited -- General Index -- Index Locorum -- Series List.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9780520393080
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Weiss, Naomi A., 1982 - Seeing theater Oakland, California : University of California Press, 2023 ISBN 9780520393080
Language:
English
Keywords:
Griechisch
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Drama
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Phänomenologie
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