This article examines space as an imaginary scenario in Shakespeare's Antony and Cleopatra and Racine's Phedre. Related to this purpose, we established that the deployment of space is successfully achieved through the dramatic characters' portrayal and rhetorical devices. The former appears as syncretic images of the worlds they embody or tableaux vivants, and the latter allow the enlargement or circumscription of the space achieving an atmosphere and dramatic effect.