The Scenic performance mechanism in the Aristophanes' comedies: the prompter and the focalization
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2017
In this article, we aimed to point two important mechanisms of scenic performance in the plays of the Greek comedy writer Aristophanes (V BC). Our start assumption is that it is possible to find in the text important marks for the scenic operationalization of those comedies. In the time when those comedies were composed, the author knew the material conditions of scenic performance and he used some interesting strategies, and we highlight two of them: (i) he inserted reminder-speech inside the sing of chorus to work as a prompter for the coreutas' choreography; (ii) he used the chorus' collective body to indicate to the spectator which scenic elements deserve the attention for being important for the progress of the plot. These two play composition strategies are similar, but not equal, to the contemporary concepts of prompter and focalization.
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| Authors | Oliveira, Jane Kelly de; |
| Journal | acta scientiarum : language and culture |
| Year | 2017 |
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