The Audience on Stage
Rhetoric, Emotion, and Judgement
This chapter explores how Sophocles manipulates the resource of the three actors in Greek tragedy. It reveals how often he constructs the third actor as an audience to the debate of two other actors or the actor and the chorus. This silence is used to dramatize ethical doubt and thus to engage the audience in the theatre in the tragic questions of the drama.
Keywords: Sophocles, tragedy, audience, actors
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