caa a22 4500 386384126 CHVBK 20180307112053.0 cr unu---uuuuu 161130s1989 xx s 000 0 eng 10.1017/S0307883300008944 doi S0307883300008944 pii (NATIONALLICENCE)cambridge-10.1017/S0307883300008944 Brault Pascale-Anne French Department at the State University of New York at Stony-Brook. Thresholds of the Tragic: A Study of Space in Sophocles and Racine [Elektronische Daten] [Pascale-Anne Brault] You have turned the page, and thus have already opened a door. A door to the text. A text about doors. Or, to be more precise, about the recurrence of doors and their function in Sophocles and Racine. Our purpose in focusing on plays in which the door or gate has a significant role for the individual and his being-in-the-world is to delineate the passageway which leads the tragic character to a boundary situation and, from there, to a possible transgression of that situation. That which is on each side of the door, the spaces created by the thresholds, will thus help locate the place of the tragic event. This spatialization of the tragic event as the transgressing of a boundary situation is emphasized by the way in which both Sophocles and Racine determine the parameters of the action as it is structured within a specific space. Copyright © International Federation for Theatre Research 1989 Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 14/3(1989), 229-241 0307-8833 14:3<229 1989 14 TRI https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300008944 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI 1 research-article jats NATIONALLICENCE 856 40 https://doi.org/10.1017/S0307883300008944 text/html Onlinezugriff via DOI NATIONALLICENCE 100 1- Brault Pascale-Anne French Department at the State University of New York at Stony-Brook NATIONALLICENCE 773 0- Theatre Research International Cambridge University Press 14/3(1989), 229-241 0307-8833 14:3<229 1989 14 TRI CC0 http://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0 nationallicence BK010053 XK010053 XK010000 NATIONALLICENCE NATIONALLICENCE NL-cambridge