The theatricality of Greek tragedy : playing space and chorus / Graham Ley.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ley, Graham.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama (Tragedy)--History and criticism.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Theater--Greece--History--To 500.

Theater.

Greece.

History.

Drama--Technique.

Drama.

Physical Description:

xix, 226 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University Of Chicago Press, 2007.

Contents:

Rationale for the Diagrams and Drawings xi

I The Playing Space 1

The Scripts and the Playing Space 1

The Surviving Tragedies of Aeschylus and Early Tragic Performance 4

Choros, Actors/Characters, and Playing Space in the Earlier Tragedies of Aeschylus 9

Persians 9

Suppliants 16

Seven against Thebes 20

Composition for the Playing Space in Aeschylus's Oresteia 24

Agamemnon 28

Libation Bearers 33

Eumenides 36

Realizing the Tragic Playing Space after Aeschylus 45

Altars and Tombs in the Playing Space after Aeschylus 46

Performers and Vehicles in the Playing Space 69

Three Kinds of Vocal Delivery in Tragedy 83

Movement and Dancing in the Playing Space 85

Actors/Characters and Choros: Chanting, Singing and Dancing in the Playing Space 91

Appendix A Chronology of the Surviving Plays 112

2 The Chorus 114

The Choros in Epic 115

Composition for the Choros 124

Music: Meter or Measure, Melody, and Mode 132

Meter 138

Melody and Modes 143

Dancing 150

Strophe, Antistrophe, and Choreia 167

Dithyrambs 173

The Theatrical Choroi: Definitions and Distinctions 181

Appendix B Time Line for Chapter 2 200.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [207]-214) and index.

ISBN:

9780226477572

0226477576

OCLC:

70063004

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