No, They Didn’t Write Stage Instructions, but…
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Alan H. Sommerstein
Abstract
While most in-text parepigraphai in dramatic scripts must be regarded as insertions or annotations by readers or commentators, those in Aeschylus’ Eumenides and Diktyoulkoi which denote inarticulate vocalizations cannot be thus accounted for and should be treated as part of the author’s script. Sophocles and Euripides did not follow Aeschylus’ practice in this respect.
Abstract
While most in-text parepigraphai in dramatic scripts must be regarded as insertions or annotations by readers or commentators, those in Aeschylus’ Eumenides and Diktyoulkoi which denote inarticulate vocalizations cannot be thus accounted for and should be treated as part of the author’s script. Sophocles and Euripides did not follow Aeschylus’ practice in this respect.
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Contents VII
- List of Figures IX
- Introduction to Page and Stage 1
- Dramatic Space and Theatrical Meaning: The Case of Sophocles’ Antigone 5
- The Inference of Staging from Deictics, with some Pointers towards Sophocles’ Trachiniae 29
- Divinity on the Classical Greek Stage: Proposing a New Model 45
- Victory Ritual and the Performance of Victory in Aristophanes’ Exodoi 65
- Some Staging Issues and Their Consequences in Aristophanes’ Clouds 83
- Sexy Mutes on the Aristophanic Stage 97
- Pseudartabas and the Persian Eunuchs in Aristophanes’ Acharnians: Textual and Staging Problems 115
- Poetics of Props: On Aristophanes, Acharnians 393–489 131
- Comic Fragments and Lost Dramatic Scenes: Some Considerations 137
- Dramaturgical Memory and Virtual Theatre in the Scholia to Aristophanes’ Frogs 147
- No, They Didn’t Write Stage Instructions, but… 167
- List of Contributors 173
- Index Locorum 177
- Index Rerum 181
Kapitel in diesem Buch
- Frontmatter I
- Acknowledgements V
- Contents VII
- List of Figures IX
- Introduction to Page and Stage 1
- Dramatic Space and Theatrical Meaning: The Case of Sophocles’ Antigone 5
- The Inference of Staging from Deictics, with some Pointers towards Sophocles’ Trachiniae 29
- Divinity on the Classical Greek Stage: Proposing a New Model 45
- Victory Ritual and the Performance of Victory in Aristophanes’ Exodoi 65
- Some Staging Issues and Their Consequences in Aristophanes’ Clouds 83
- Sexy Mutes on the Aristophanic Stage 97
- Pseudartabas and the Persian Eunuchs in Aristophanes’ Acharnians: Textual and Staging Problems 115
- Poetics of Props: On Aristophanes, Acharnians 393–489 131
- Comic Fragments and Lost Dramatic Scenes: Some Considerations 137
- Dramaturgical Memory and Virtual Theatre in the Scholia to Aristophanes’ Frogs 147
- No, They Didn’t Write Stage Instructions, but… 167
- List of Contributors 173
- Index Locorum 177
- Index Rerum 181