Seeing Theater

Naomi Weiss is Professor of Classics at Harvard University. She is author of The Music of Tragedy: Performance and Imagination in Euripidean Theater.

Contents

List of Illustrations 
Acknowledgments 
Note on Texts, Translations, and Abbreviations 

Introduction 
Phenomenology, Aristotle, and Classical Greek Drama 
Theōrein and Seeing Theater 
The “Play of Actuality” beyond Fifth-Century Theater 
Engaged Spectatorship 
Genre and Scope 

1. Opening Spaces 
Tragic and Comic Space 
Seeing the Setting 
Staged Spectatorship 
Seeing Theater, Seeing Assembly 
Atopic Beginnings 
The Phenomenology of Space in the Classical Greek Theater 

2. Seeing What? 
Is This That? Aeschylus’s Theoroi 
Visual Indeterminacy in Aeschylus’s Suppliants 
Winging with Words in Aristophanes’s Birds

3. Pain Between Bodies 
Dustheatos 
Blinded Bodies I: Euripides’s Cyclops and Hecuba 
Blinded Bodies II: Sophocles’s Oedipus the King 
Sympathetic Bodies: [Aeschylus’s] Prometheus Bound 
Pleasure in Pain 

4. Pots and Plays 
Actor, Mask, Costume 
The Basel Chorus Krater 
The London Pandora Krater 
The Naples Birds Krater 

Epilogue 
Works Cited 
General Index 
Index Locorum