ByzantinoslavicaRevue internationale des études byzantines

Datum publikování: 2025

Autor: Mullett, Margaret

Abstrakt: Character construction is not usually considered for non-fictional characters, and surprisingly seldom in drama as distinct from mediated narrative. An analysis, based on the method of De Temmerman and van Emde Boas (who characterises and how), of the treatment of the Gospel accounts of the first Easter Sunday in the third (Resurrection) play of the Christos Paschon and in Romanos’s Resurrection reveals the dominance of female characters in both texts: the women of Galilee and Mary Magdalen in both and additionally the Theotokos in the Paschon. In Romanos they are contrasted with the timorous and unbelieving male disciples; in the Paschon with the venal conspiracy of Pilate, priests and guard. In neither text is characterisation constrained by scripture or by a fixed transtextual tradition. Gospel harmony is achieved by very different means and the characters are constructed differently in the two texts. Mimesis (Paschon) as well as diegesis (Romanos) provides access to the inner worlds of the characters, and it is clear that character construction should be considered however fictional or non-fictional a text may be.

Rozsah stran: s. 66–86

Status recenzování: recenzovaný článek

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