Theatricality of Greek Tragedy Playing Space and Chorus

Name: Theatricality of Greek Tragedy Playing Space and Chorus
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ISBN: 9780226477572

ISBN-10: 0226477576

ISBN-13: 9780226477572

Edition: 2007

Authors: Graham Ley

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Ancient Greek tragedy has been an inspiration to Western culture, but the way it was first performed has long remained in question. In "The Theatricality of Greek Tragedy," Graham Ley provides an illuminating discussion of key issues relating to the use of the playing space and the nature of the chorus, offering a distinctive impression of the performance of Greek tragedy in the fifth century BCE. Drawing on evidence from the surviving texts of tragedies by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, Ley explains how scenes with actors were played in the open ground of the orchestra, often considered as exclusively the dancing place of the chorus. In reviewing what is known of the music and dance…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2007
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Publication date: 3/1/2007
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 240
Size: 0.64" wide x 0.94" long x 0.08" tall
Weight: 1.034
Language: English

Graham Ley is professor emeritus of drama and theory at the University of Exeter.



Preface


Scope of the Book


Rationale for the Diagrams and Drawings


Further Comments and Acknowledgments



The Playing Space


The Scripts and the Playing Space


The Surviving Tragedies of Aeschylus and Early Tragic Performance


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


Persians


Suppliants


Seven against Thebes


Composition for the Playing Space in Aeschylus's Oresteia


Agamemnon


Libation Bearers


Eumenides


Realizing the Tragic Playing Space after Aeschylus


Altars and Tombs in the Playing Space after Aeschylus


Performers and Vehicles in the Playing Space


Three Kinds of Vocal Delivery in Tragedy


Movement and Dancing in the Playing Space


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



Chronology of the Surviving Plays



The Chorus


The Choros in Epic


Composition for the Choros


Music: Meter or Measure, Melody, and Mode


Meter


Melody and Modes


Dancing


Strophe, Antistrophe, and Choreia


Dithyrambs


The Theatrical Choroi: Definitions and Distinctions



Time Line for Chapter 2


Conclusion


References


Index