The Greek Theater and Its Drama
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The Greek Theater and Its Drama considers moments when an actor's face is hidden from the audience even though strong emotions might be expected. An example from Euripides' Orestes places Electra and the chorus in the orchestra, looking toward the palace while their backs are turned to the audience. The discussion explains that spectators are free to imagine excitement and horror on the performers' faces, but that this fiction is destroyed when the actors turn to the front.
The account of comedy says that the acts known to the Latin authors can no longer be re-established, while Greek terminology permits somewhat more definite results without agreement in every case. Technical criteria are said to indicate that the original parts in these comedies ranged from a minimum of two or three to a maximum of seven or eight.
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- Roy C. Flickinger
- Pages
- 307
- Language
- English
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- Ancient History
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