Edith Hall / Fiona Macintosh / Amanda Wrigley (eds.)

Dionysus Since 69

Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium
Herausgeber: Hall, Edith; Wrigley, Amanda; Macintosh, Fiona

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Produktbeschreibung

Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This book is the first to address the fundamental question, why has there been so much Greek tragedy in the theatres, opera houses and cinemas of the last three decades? A detailed chronological appendix of production information and lavish illustrations supplement the fourteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the worlds of classics, theatre studies, and the professional theatre. They relate the recent appeal of Greek tragedy to social trends, political developments, aesthetic and performative developments, and the intellectual currents of the last three decades, especially multiculturalism, post-colonialism, feminism, post-structuralism, revisions of psychoanalytical models, and secularization.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 500
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. März 2004
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 223mm x 149mm x 34mm
• Gewicht: 810g
• ISBN-13: 9780199259144
• ISBN-10: 0199259143
• Artikelnr.: 21648324

Autorenporträt

Edith Hall is Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History at the University of Durham and Co-Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford Fiona Macintosh is Senior Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford Amanda Wrigley is Researcher at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford

Inhaltsangabe

* 1: Edith Hall: Introduction: Why Greek tragedy since the late 1960s?
* 1. Dionysus and the Sex War
* 2: Froma Zeitlin: Dionysus in '69
* 3: Helene Foley: Bad women: gender politics in late twentieth-century
performance and revision of Greek tragedy
* 4: Kathleen Riley: Heracles as Dr Strangelove and GI Joe: male
heroism deconstructed
* 2. Dionysus in Politics
* 5: Oliver Taplin: Sophocles' Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney's, and some
other recent half-rhymes
* 6: Edith Hall: Aeschylus, race, class, and war in the 1990s
* 7: Pantelis Michelakis: Greek tragedy in cinema: theatre, politics,
history
* 8: Lorna Hardwick: Greek drama and anti-colonialism: decolonising
Classics
* 3. Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Performance
* 9: David Wiles: The use of masks in modern performances of Greek
tragedy
* 10: Katharine Worth: Greek notes in Samuel Beckett's theatre art
* 11: Peter Brown: Greek Tragedy in late twentieth-century opera
* 4. Dionysus and the Life of the Mind
* 12: Fiona Macintosh: Oedipus in the East End: from Freus to Berkoff
* 13: Erika Fischer-Lichte: Thinking about the origins of theatre in
the 1970s
* 14: Timberlake Wertenbaker: The voices we hear
* 15: Amanda Wrigley: Details of productions discussed