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Dramatic Action in Greek Tragedy and Noh - Reading with and beyond Aristotle (Hardcover)
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Dramatic Action in Greek Tragedy and Noh - Reading with and beyond Aristotle (Hardcover)
Series: Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
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This book explores the ramifications of understanding the
similarities and differences between the tragedies of Euripides and
Sophocles and realistic Japanese noh. First, it looks at the
relationship of Aristotle s definition of tragedy to the tragedies
he favored. Next, his definition is applied to realistic noh, in
order to show how they do and do not conform to his definition. In
the third and fourth chapters, the focus moves to those junctures
in the dramas that Aristotle considered crucial to a complex plot -
recognitions and sudden reversals -, and shows how they are
presented in performance. Chapter 3 examines the climactic moments
of realistic noh and demonstrates that it is at precisely these
moments that a third actor becomes involved in the dialogue or that
an actor in various ways steps out of character. Chapter 4 explores
how plays by Euripides and Sophocles deal with critical turns in
the plot, as Aristotle defined it. It is not by an actor stepping
out of character, but by the playwright s involvement of the third
actor in the dialogue. The argument of this book reveals a similar
symbiosis between plot and performance in both dramatic forms. By
looking at noh through the lens of Aristotle and two Greek
tragedies that he favored, the book uncovers first an Aristotelian
plot structure in realistic noh and the relationship between the
crucial points in the plot and its performance; and on the Greek
side, looking at the tragedies through the lens of noh suggests a
hitherto unnoticed relationship between the structure of the
tragedies and their performance, that is, the involvement of the
third actor at the climactic moments of the plot. This observation
helps to account for Aristotle s view that tragedy be limited to
three actors."
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