Mnemosyne Pub Date : 2021-04-12 , DOI: 10.1163/1568525x-bja10069 Matthew C. Farmer 1
At the premiere of Euripides’ Orestes in 408 BCE, the actor Hegelochos, playing the part of Orestes, made a small but destructive error in his performance: while attempting to deliver the line ‘after the storm I see once more a calm’, he said instead, ‘after the storm I see once more a weasel’. The comic poets Strattis, Sannyrion, and Aristophanes each present versions of this error in their plays; this paper contextualizes their treatment of Hegelochos within the portrayal of tragic actors in comedy generally, and argues that they portray Hegelochos’ mistake as an act of instantaneous tragic parody.
中文翻译:
再次成为鼬鼠:希腊戏剧中演员的错误和模仿
在公元前408年的Euripides的Orestes首映式上,扮演Orestes的演员Hegelochos在表演中犯了一个小但具有破坏性的错误:在尝试“在暴风雨过后我再次感到平静”的前提下,取而代之的是,“暴风雨过后,我再次看到了一只鼬鼠”。喜剧诗人Strattis,Sannyrion和Aristophanes各自在剧本中呈现了这种错误的形式。本文以喜剧中悲剧演员的形象描述了他们对黑格尔霍斯的对待,并认为他们将黑格尔霍斯的错误描述为瞬时悲剧性模仿的行为。