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To offer an introduction to a “Scenography of Subjectivity” and thus to the two central concepts considered together in the essays in this volume, it seems to make sense to start with scenography, rather than the over-determined term subjectivity. What sounds like a brazen neologism, is in Greek nothing other than the technical term for backdrop painting. The term scenography is found for the first time in a text written more than two hundred years after the emergence of Greek theater, and due to its focus on a concept of dramatic action, it tends more to marginalize the performance conditions and practices of Greek tragedy, rather than emphasizing them.

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Friedrich, L., Harrasser, K. (2019). Introduction. In: Friedrich, L., Harrasser, K., Kaiser, C. (eds) Scenographies of the Subject. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-12906-4_1

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