The choruses of Sophokles' Antigone and Philoktetes : a dance of words / by Margaret Rachel Kitzinger.
"Dance of Words" argues for a fundamental difference in the modes of expression of actor and chorus. The chorus views the action from the perspective of dancers and singers, while the actors' understanding is shaped by the responsibility they have to make things happen. While this res...
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| Language: | English |
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Leiden ; Boston :
Brill,
2008.
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| Series: | Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum ;
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Table of Contents:
- Chapter One Antigone; 1. The Parodos: From March to Dance; 2. The Ordering of Ambiguity; 3. The Consequence of Action and the Sequence of the Dance; 4. Hymn to Eros: The Appeal of the Divine; 5. A Lyric Dialogue: Challenge and Response; 6. Fractured Narrative and the Song of Fate; 7. Dionysos After All; Chapter Two Philoktetes; 1. The Parodos: A Divided World; 2. The Song of Lies; 3. The Solo Song; 4. A Hymn to Healing Sleep?; 5. The Kommos: (Dis)embodied Voices; Epilogue.