Some Remarks Concerning Night Scenes on the Classical Greek Stage
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 10288337 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Jasper F Donelan (1 3 rue de Belfort, Strasbourg 67100 France [email protected], corresponding author) |
| Year | 2013 |
| Volume | 67 |
| Issue | 4 |
| Pages | 535-553 |
| Publication date | 2013-10-18 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Mnemosyne (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0026-7074 • E-ISSN: 1568-525X |
| Publisher | Brill (PUBLISHER • NL) |
| DOI | 10.1163/1568525x-12341213 |
| OpenAlex | W2061144785 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 12 |
This paper examines ways in which the dramatists of the fifth century staged night scenes in an open-air, daytime theater, as well as how these scenes relate to the rest of their respective plays’ action. For want of archaeological evidence or treatises on dramatic production, the texts of the tragedies and comedies form the basis of the investigation, which aside from its focus on production techniques also has wider implications for the handling of time in Greek drama. A comparison of tragedy and comedy reveals differences in the two genres’ approaches to conveying ‘darkness’ to their audiences. This also holds true for the pseudo-Euripidean Rhesus , whose plot is set almost exclusively at night. Aristophanic comedy often uses props such as lanterns or torches to reinforce a verbally constructed nocturnal setting whereas tragedy, as far as we can tell, relies solely on spoken description
Action (physics · Ancient Greek · Art · Aside · Comedy · Drama · Literature · Plot (graphics · Romance · Tragedy (event · Classical Antiquity Studies · Contemporary and Historical Greek Studies · History · Mathematics
Tragedy and civilization
Plato and Greek Painting
Rhesus Between Dream and Death
Observations on the Opening Scene of Aristophanes' Wasps
The Watchman Scenes in the Antigone
The Prologues of Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis
Some Patterns of Nature Imagery in the Oresteia
Three and scene-painting Sophocles
Greek Scenic Conventions in the Fifth Century B.C
The Authenticity of the Rhesus of Euripides
| Citation velocity | historical |
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| Highly cited | No |