LEADER 04515nam 2200697Ia 450 001 9910454925003321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-282-27136-9 010 $a9786612271366 010 $a1-4008-2507-5 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400825073 035 $a(CKB)1000000000804117 035 $a(EBL)457888 035 $a(OCoLC)466172189 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000341521 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11290215 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000341521 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10394068 035 $a(PQKB)11547324 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC457888 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36146 035 $a(DE-B1597)446493 035 $a(OCoLC)979685515 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400825073 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL457888 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10328919 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL227136 035 $a(EXLCZ)991000000000804117 100 $a20020114d2002 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 14$aThe play of space$b[electronic resource] $espatial transformation in Greek tragedy /$fRush Rehm 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, NJ ;$aOxford, Oxfordshire $cPrinceton University Press$dc2002 215 $a1 online resource (463 p.) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-691-05809-1 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. 405-433) and index. 327 $t Frontmatter -- $tContents -- $tFigures -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tA Note to the Reader -- $tINTRODUCTION -- $tCHAPTER ONE. The Theater and Athenian Spatial Practice -- $tCHAPTER TWO. Space for Returns -- $tCHAPTER THREE. Eremetic Space -- $tCHAPTER FOUR. Space and the Body -- $tCHAPTER FIVE. Space, Time, and Memory: Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus -- $tCHAPTER SIX. Space and the Other -- $tCONCLUSION -- $tAPPENDIX -- $tNOTES -- $tBIBLIOGRAPHY -- $tIndex 330 $aIs "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-century theatrical space within other significant social, political, and religious spaces of Athens. Drawing on the work of James J. Gibson, Kurt Lewin, and Michel Foucault, Rehm crosses a range of disciplines--classics, theater studies, cognitive psychology, archaeology and architectural history, cultural studies, and performance theory--to analyze the phenomenology of space and its transformations in the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides. His discussion of Athenian theatrical and spatial practice challenges the contemporary view that space represents a "text" to be read, or constitutes a site of structural dualities (e.g., outside-inside, public-private, nature-culture). Chapters on specific tragedies explore the spatial dynamics of homecoming ("space for returns"); the opposed constraints of exile ("eremetic space" devoid of normal community); the power of bodies in extremis to transform their theatrical environment ("space and the body"); the portrayal of characters on the margin ("space and the other"); and the tragic interactions of space and temporality ("space, time, and memory"). An appendix surveys pre-Socratic thought on space and motion, related ideas of Plato and Aristotle, and, as pertinent, later views on space developed by Newton, Leibniz, Descartes, Kant, and Einstein. Eloquently written and with Greek texts deftly translated, this book yields rich new insights into our oldest surviving drama. 606 $aGreek drama (Tragedy) 606 $aTheater$zGreece 606 $aTheater$xHistory$yTo 500 606 $aSpace perception 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aGreek drama (Tragedy) 615 0$aTheater 615 0$aTheater$xHistory 615 0$aSpace perception. 676 $a882.0109 700 $aRehm$b Rush$0162820 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910454925003321 996 $aThe play of space$92468330 997 $aUNINA