Narrative setting and dramatic poetry / / by Mary Kuntz.

• Superior document: Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum, 124
• Author: Kuntz, Mary.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, New York : : E.J. Brill,, 1993.
• Year of Publication: 1993
• Language: English
• Series: Mnemosyne, Supplements 124.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (178 pages)
• Notes: Revision of the author's thesis (doctoral--Yale), presented in 1985 under the title, Setting and theme in Greek tragedy.
• Other title: Preliminary Material /; Introduction /; The Introductory Function of Setting /; Narrative Setting and Euripidesʼ Ion /; Supplication and Cult /; Hero, Home and Wife /; Women, Home and Exile /; Three Who Would Not Come Home /; A Place Apart /; The Physical Representation of Setting in the Fifth-Century Theater an Overview /; Select Bibliography /; General Index /; Index Locorum /; Supplements to Mnemosyne.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 162-168) and index.
• ISBN: 900432920X
• ISSN: 0169-8958
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: by Mary Kuntz.

This volume evaluates a single element of tragic art, namely the way in which narrative descriptions of place participate in the poetry of tragedy. They join together structures of the theater to create a context for tragic performance, and ultimately reflect upon tragedy's connection to earlier narrative forms and to the traditional tales that regularly supply tragic plots. The first part of this book examines the introductory function of spatial descriptions and the peculiar resources offered to the playwright by cult settings. In the second part, the spatial oppositions, that are inherent structuring devices in traditional tales, are taken up in chapters treating the motif of exile in extant tragedy.