Choruses of Sophokles' Antigone and Philoktetes - Dance of Words

Informationen zum Autor Margaret Rachel Kitzinger , Ph. D (1974) in Classics, Stanford University is Professor of Classics at Vassar College. She has published several articles on Sophokles and has directed Greek tragedy in English and Greek. Klappentext "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 responsibility fashions the actors' considerations of cause and effect, linear movement through time and space, and a sense of history, the chorus' sensibilities arise out of the rhythms of its song and movements. Its mode of expression is a particular way of communicating and elaborating on man's place in the larger order, and its view of the action is bounded by the way that song and dance mirror that order.

Product details

• Authors: KITZINGER, Margaret rachel Kitzinger, Rachel Kitzinger
• Publisher: Brill Academic Publishers
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.01.2008
• EAN: 9789004165144
• ISBN: 978-90-0-416514-4
• Dimensions: 167 mm x 248 mm x 15 mm
• Series: Mnemosyne, Bibliotheca Classic; Mnemosyne, Supplements
• Subjects: Education and learning > Teaching preparation > Vocational needs; Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity