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Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama
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Abstract
This book discusses off-stage assemblies, populations, armies, and other groups in fifth-century Athenian drama, which often depicts these groups as holding considerable power over events and characters on stage. Off-stage groups can only be depicted through on-stage characters’ viewpoints, and refracted through these characters’ perspectives and allegiances; this allows plays to depict groups from multiple different viewpoints, portraying their activity and decision-making in highly nuanced fashion and confronting the audience with the inherent difficulty of interpreting them. This book sets these off-stage groups in comparison with the groups depicted in fifth- and fourth-century Athenian prose texts: the fictive and mythical worlds imagined in drama explore collective activity in radical, unusual ways. Consequently, plays often undercut and complicate the stereotypes used to portray groups in prose texts.
Title: Off-Stage Groups in Athenian Drama
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Abstract
This book discusses off-stage assemblies, populations, armies, and other groups in fifth-century Athenian drama, which often depicts these groups as holding considerable power over events and characters on stage.
Off-stage groups can only be depicted through on-stage characters’ viewpoints, and refracted through these characters’ perspectives and allegiances; this allows plays to depict groups from multiple different viewpoints, portraying their activity and decision-making in highly nuanced fashion and confronting the audience with the inherent difficulty of interpreting them.
This book sets these off-stage groups in comparison with the groups depicted in fifth- and fourth-century Athenian prose texts: the fictive and mythical worlds imagined in drama explore collective activity in radical, unusual ways.
Consequently, plays often undercut and complicate the stereotypes used to portray groups in prose texts.
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