scholarly journals Herramientas embotadas

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Luigi Giuliani
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Stage Direction ◽  
Stage Directions ◽  
Theatrical Text

This article tackles the problem of editing the stage directions from a neo-Lachmannian point of view. After considering the nature of the stage direction a sign within the semiotic nature of the theatrical text, the behaviour of the copyists in the manuscript and printed transmission of the Spanish theatre of the Golden Age is taken into account, in order to analyse those problems that arise in the application of the method in the phase of constitutio textus. Thus, the focus is on four paradigmatic cases: variants stemming from different staging; variants within a recensio cum stemmate; variants in a contaminatio; lack of stage directions either in one-witness traditions or in the archetype.

scholarly journals The Scenic Arrangements of the Philoktetes of Sophocles

1912 ◽  
Vol 32 ◽  
pp. 239-249
Author(s):  
W. J. Woodhouse
Keyword(s):  
Fifth Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Mise En Scene ◽  
Stage Directions

The Philoktetes is a play of singular interest and importance, on account of the light which it throws upon dramatic representation in the Athenian theatre of the fifth century B.C. I am not aware, however, that any consistent and intelligible interpretation of it from that point of view has yet been given. In Jebb's edition and translation spasmodic stage directions and obiter dicta on the scenic arrangements and action are to be found, but no coherent or complete exposition. I propose, therefore, to analyse the play so far as may be necessary in order to exhibit the apparatus of the drama, and its bearings upon the action. It is evident that the result of this examination must finally be brought into connexion with certain fundamental problems relating to the theatre of the Greeks and their methods of dramatic representation; but throughout this investigation at any rate those issues remain entirely in the background. The aim is not to support a thesis. Orchestra, Stage, Parodoi—we will for the nonce allow ourselves to forget that these ever existed; the problem for us is simply this—What can we infer from the bare text of the Philoktetes as to the mise en scène of that drama?

scholarly journals Un estruendo invisible: las cajas en el teatro de Bances Candamo

2020 ◽  
Vol 17 ◽  
Author(s):  
Gastón Gilabert
Keyword(s):  
Instrumental Music ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Siglo De Oro ◽  
Spanish Golden Age ◽  
Stage Directions ◽  
Great Mass

El objetivo de este trabajo es reflexionar acerca de uno de los ingredientes más invisibles del teatro del Siglo de Oro: la música instrumental y los efectos acústicos que no incluyen la participación de cantantes. Mediante el análisis de todas las apariciones de cajas o tambores militares percutidos en las comedias de Francisco Bances Candamo, con la dificultad que supone la escasez generalizada de acotaciones destinadas a la música instrumental, se dibuja una estrategia dramática para vincular el oído con lo bélico, sea para animar al soldado, sea para las honras fúnebres de los caídos, con las implicaciones ideológicas que ello tiene en el primer gran espectáculo de masas de la modernidad. The aim of this paper is to reflect on one of the most invisible ingredients of the Spanish Golden Age theatre: instrumental music and acoustic effects that do not include the participation of singers. Through the analysis of all the occurrences of cajas or percussed military drums in the plays of Francisco Bances Candamo, with the difficulty that supposes the generalized scarcity of stage directions destined to the instrumental music, a dramatic strategy is drawn to link the ear with war, either to animate to the soldier, or for the funeral honors of the fallen, with the ideological implications that this has in the first great mass spectacle of modernity.

scholarly journals Paratextual Intrigue in the Dramatic Cycle “The Apartment of Colombina” of L. S. Petrushevskaya

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1) ◽  
pp. 207-219
Author(s):  
N. A. Muratova
Keyword(s):  
Direct Interaction ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Direct Function ◽  
Framework Design ◽  
Living Space ◽  
The Arts ◽  
Stage Directions ◽  
Conflict Interaction

Abstract The article highlights the paratext specificity in L. S. Petrushevskaya’s drama cycle “The Apartment of Colombina”. It is stated that the paratext in drama is a zone of contact between dramaturgical and stage discourses, moreover, the paratextual frame explicates the space of direct interaction between the author and the addressee. In the analysis, a set of titles and one of the types of remarks is being updated, namely the locatives. It is being proved that from the point of view of a paratext, the cycle is an example of a polycode sense modeling when on the first level, we can highlight an inclusion of the dell’arte elements in the framework design, and on the second level, we should fix their correlation with the discourses of the characters. This structures’ clash is one of the features of the ambivalence poetics which is inherent in Petrushevskaya’s dramaturgy. It also demonstrates a conflict interaction between the nomination and the type of dramatic situation unfolding in the play, in which the intrigue is built autonomously in relation to the title. Special attention is paid to the organization of the chronotope in the plays of this cycle. A withdrawn locality in which the action proceeds simultaneously points out a social and domestic type of drama and the theatrical nature of what is happening in the plays. The author comes to the conclusion that, in addition to the direct function (stage directions), the paratext organizes the theatrical dimension of the plot. The key paratext role of the arts consists, therefore, in an effect of recoding the leading chronotope, which is here the apartment. In this regard, the apartment of Colombina appears as a receptacle for the entire theatrical form, and in this space of action, the characters and situations are variable only within the role, the mask. The principle that demonstrates a stylistic harmony of each individual play and the entire cycle of “The Apartment of Colombina” is the mobility and ambivalence of the paratext, which performs a reverse metamorphosis and transforms the scene of the plays into a stage platform. It is shown that there is a du- plication mechanism in the paratext of the drama cycle “The Apartment of Colombina”, when the formal living space becomes irrelevant due to an introduction of a metatheatrical code and exposes the actual stage.

scholarly journals Swoiste sposoby określania czynności przy ich powtórnym opisie

2019 ◽  
pp. 259-272
Author(s):  
Marina J. Glovinskaja
Keyword(s):  
Point Of View ◽  
Literary Works ◽  
Time Perspectives ◽  
The Past ◽  
Previous Statement ◽  
Verb Forms ◽  
Cultural Texts ◽  
Stage Directions

The article is devoted to a separate variety of statements: statements reporting the content of other statements. The author refers to this type of speech as ‘retelling’ (Russian: pereskaz) and points to its use in presenting the content of literary works, journalistic texts, various cultural texts (film, opera, ballet, etc.) and, less frequently, also spoken statements. One typical where these forms occur are headlines reporting on the content of the following text and stage directions. ‘Retelling’ is characterized by specific ways of using the forms of the perfective and imperfective aspects of the verb and the use of temporal forms of the verb, different from the usual dependence of tenses (such as ‘future in the past’). This is justified by their metatextual function. In these cases, there is a transition to the second or even third level of temporal deixis, when events are not presented (as opposed to a simple statement) from the point of view of the ‘here and now’ of the current sender but, instead, presented as elements of the reality already presented in the previous statement and reported from the perspective of its author or recipient/interpreter (who may assume different time perspectives vis-à-vis the content of the presented text). A thorough analysis of the material illustrating the ‘retelling’ in the article reveals specific cases of synonymy between different tense-aspect verb forms.

I sommersi e i salvati. A proposito di Disgraced di Ayad Akhtar

2019 ◽  
Vol 5 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Milena Massalongo
Keyword(s):  
At Risk ◽  
Visual Angle ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Pulitzer Prize ◽  
American Writer ◽  
Award Winning ◽  
Pakistani Origin ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Theatrical Text

“No majority can ever abolish the feeling of the diversity of minorities from one’s conscience. The mental figure of the ghetto survives invincible. The negro can only get out of there if he adopts the visual angle and the mentality of the majority. He must deny himself, and pretend that his experience is a normal experience, that is to say, majoritarian”. These words by Pasolini expose what “integration” ends up being, even at its best. It is the key issue at the center of the worldwide successful theatrical text Disgraced, Pulitzer Prize 2013, written by Ayad Akhtar, an American writer of Pakistani origin. Disgraced was staged in the 2017/2018 theatrical season in Turin and Munich, directed by the award-winning Martin Kušej. Both text and staging try to intercept racism and discrimination of all kinds from the point where they affect us all in the form of anxiety of adaptation/inclusion and power to exclude. If these problems affect us all, certainly not in the sense of the ‘human universal’, a point of view that both Akthar and Kušej avoid carefully. We are all perhaps on the same boat, but who drives it, who runs the engine, whoever is safe and who ends up at sea, are mostly well distinguishable and not interchangeable. The difference is that if you are 'included' there is still some possibility of living a whole life without having to notice it. In the event that you are part of a group temporarily at risk of exclusion, as in this moment the immigrants from poorer countries, like the Muslims mentioned in the text, the meeting or clash with this reality, and therefore a real updated knowledge, is an almost inevitable experience.

‘Et dat alapam vita’: A Stage Direction in the Chester 'Noah’s Flood'

Early Theatre ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Peter Whiteford
Keyword(s):  
British Library ◽  
Stage Direction ◽  
Stage Directions

This note considers the role of one of the stage directions in the Chester cycle. The direction ‘et dat alapam vita’, found only in British Library MS Harley 2124, records the blow struck by Noah’s wife after her sons force her aboard the ark, and is typically discussed in the context of the misogynistic ‘humour’ found in other dramatic and non-dramatic texts of the period. In this note, I provide an alternative, typological reading of the stage direction.

scholarly journals Ahmed Essa with Othman Ali, The Muslim Contribution to the Renaissance

2011 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 146-149
Author(s):  
Tammy Gaber
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Historical Context ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Direct Relation ◽  
Dark Ages

Despite this being the age when information is readily available, the analysis,the dissemination, and the effect of pioneering Islamic knowledge inall fields is a relatively recent endeavor with only a handful of books thatcover these areas from an academic point of view. The Muslim Contributionto the Renaissance is a comprehensive addition; it is a collection ofnumerous examples of Islamic innovation, and places these examples in their historical context in direct relation to the developing West—a timecalled the “Dark Ages”’ in Europe and the “Golden Age” in the Muslimworld. This Golden Age was one of high calibre scholasticism and practicalexploration in all fields, and it directly influenced the emergence in theWest of what was to be called the “Renaissance.” ...

Spanish Comedias as Pot Boilers

PMLA ◽  
1967 ◽  
Vol 82 (2) ◽  
pp. 178-184 ◽  
Author(s):  
Sturgis E. Leavitt
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Dramatic Technique

The comedias of the Golden Age in Spain present a field of investigation that seems to be inexhaustible. The dramatic productions of that unbelievably exuberant period are so numerous that no one can hope to read them all. Even to try to keep up with the research based upon them is a task of the first magnitude. These plays have been studied from the point of view of sources, dramatic technique, versification, style, dates of the plays, authorship, and much, much else.

scholarly journals Beginnings and Importance of Romantic Wandering in mid-18th Century

2016 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 261
Author(s):  
Aleksandar Molnar
Keyword(s):  
Golden Age ◽  
Intellectual Development ◽  
18Th Century ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Johann Gottfried Herder ◽  
Bourgeois Society

In the article, the author is discussing the importance of the wandering experiences for the emergence of Romanticism in the mid-18th century. His point of view is that without such experiences the rising culture of novels would not be able to trigger the correspondent take off in romantic arts and philosophy. Only during wanderings in the unknown nature it was possible not only to contemplate the alternative universes reveled by novels, but also to feel the possibility of their existence. And the most precious experiences wanderings could offer were the experiences of the possibility that the golden age was not only part of a mythic past but could be re-established again. Romantic wanderings were always part of the search for such golden age and source of the urge to re-invent the alternative to the oppressive bourgeois society. Such a view on the importance of romantic wanderings the author tries to demonstrate on examples of Jean-Jacques Rousseau in France and Johann Gottfried Herder in Germany. He considers them as first Romantics (along with Johann Georg Hamann in Germany) whose early wandering experiences shaped to a great extent their intellectual development and enabled them to engage passionately in battle with the ideals of Enlightenment.

scholarly journals Eskatologien i tidlig romersk kejsertid

1987 ◽  
Author(s):  
Svend Erik Mathiassen
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
Present State ◽  
Golden Age ◽  
Point Of View ◽  
Classical Antiquity ◽  
Imperial Rome ◽  
Remote Past

The so-called Messianic thought in Virgil has often been a matter of discussion. This article stresses certain aspects of this thought, namely its eschatological and soteriological implications: The primitivistic conception of the remote past as a Golden Age, exhibited in a majority of writers in classical antiquity since Hesiod, runs forth to the time of early imperial Rome. By the Augustan poets, however, especially Virgil and Horace, the idea of world-ages is presented in a new version. Virgil claims the reappearance of the Golden Age and Augustus, whose reign in the Aeneid is closely connected with the myth of Saturn as a culture-hero, is regarded as a savior, who rescued the Roman citizens from the plague of civil wars. Moreover, as asserted by Virgil, the cyclic recurrence of world-ages has come to an end. This idea must be considered as the fulfillment of an eschatology and thus, from a typological point of view, as fundamentally identical with the corresponding Christian conception of the eschatology as a present state.

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