The Play of Space Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy 1st Edition by Rush Rehm ISBN 0691058091 978-0691058092
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ISBN 10: 0691058091
ISBN 13: 978-0691058092
Author: Rush Rehm
Is “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.
Table of contents:
CHAPTER ONE: The Theater and Athenian Spatial Practice
The Theater of Dionysus
The Sanctuary of Dionysus Eleuthereus
The City Dionysia: Procession, Sacrifice, and the Secular
Inside Out, Outside In: Land, Livelihood, and Living Space in the Polis
CHAPTER TWO: Space for Returns
The Oresteia: Homecoming and Its Returns
Heracles and Home
CHAPTER THREE: Eremetic Space
Antigone: Desolation Takes the Stage
Ajax: Alone in Space, In and Out of Time
Philoctetes: The Island eremia
Prometheus Bound: The Ends of the Earth
CHAPTER FOUR: Space and the Body
Hecuba: The Body as Measure
Euripides’ Electra: The Intimate Body
The Bacchae: The Theatrical Body
CHAPTER FIVE: Space, Time, and Memory: Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus
CHAPTER SIX: Space and the Other
Persians
The Other Medea: Woman, Barbarian, Exile, Athenian
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