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Children in Greek Tragedy - Pathos and Potential (Hardcover)
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Children in Greek Tragedy - Pathos and Potential (Hardcover)
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Astyanax is thrown from the walls of Troy; Medeia kills her
children as an act of vengeance against her husband; Aias reflects
with sorrow on his son's inheritance, yet kills himself and leaves
Eurysakes vulnerable to his enemies. The pathos created by threats
to children is a notable feature of Greek tragedy, but does not in
itself explain the broad range of situations in which the ancient
playwrights chose to employ such threats. Rather than casting
children in tragedy as simple figures of pathos, this volume
proposes a new paradigm to understand their roles, emphasizing
their dangerous potential as the future adults of myth. Although
they are largely silent, passive figures on stage, children exert a
dramatic force that transcends their limited physical presence, and
are in fact theatrically complex creations who pose a danger to the
major characters. Their multiple projected lives create dramatic
palimpsests which are paradoxically more significant than their
immediate emotional effects: children are never killed because of
their immediate weakness, but because of their potential strength.
This re-evaluation of the significance of child characters in Greek
tragedy draws on a fresh examination of the evidence for child
actors in fifth-century Athens, which concludes that the physical
presence of children was a significant factor in their
presentation. However, child roles can only be fully appreciated as
theatrical phenomena, utilizing the inherent ambiguities of drama:
as such, case studies of particular plays and playwrights are
underpinned by detailed analysis of staging considerations, opening
up new avenues for interpretation and challenging traditional
models of children in tragedy.
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