V2nd, C3: pov in sec. viii

[Krafft, John M.]

Intriguing suggestion that the pov is that of the allegorical statue of Tragedy: could it see itself turned orange by the sun? Would Stencil's (experimentally?) adopting such a pov have to redound so much to his ethical discredit?

Has anyone tried to block the scene? Do all the actors in it enter from the same, stage end of the corridor? Is the window at that end? (Assuming the theater is an actual historical one, we might find out which direction it faced and deduce whether the stage side had a west-facing window.) The statue? If Lepsius enters Box 2 from the stage end, does everyone else come in at the other end and enter Box 3, or come in the other end and pass box 2 to get to 1, or come in the stage end and pass Box 2 to get to 3, or come in the stage end and enter Box 1, or what?

jmk

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