Dionysus since 69 Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium,9780199259144

Dionysus since 69 Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium

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ISBN13: 9780199259144
ISBN10: 0199259143
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2004-03-11
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This lavishly illustrated book is the first attempt fully to document and explain its revival. It assembles fourteen essays by specialists from classics, theater studies, and the professional theater, who relate the recent production history of Greek tragedy to social and academic trends.

Author Biography


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

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations
ix
List of Contributors
xiii
Lectures at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama 1997--2002 xvii
Note on Nomenclature, Spelling, and Texts xix
Introduction: Why Greek Tragedy in the Late Twentieth Century?
1(46)
Edith Hall
SECTION I: Dionysus and the Sex War
47(96)
Dionysus in 69
49(28)
Froma I. Zeitlin
Bad Women: Gender Politics in Late Twentieth-Century Performance and Revision of Greek Tragedy
77(36)
Helene Foley
Heracles as Dr Strangelove and GI Joe: Male Heroism Deconstructed
113(30)
Kathleen Riley
SECTION II: Dionysus in Politics
143(100)
Sophocles' Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney's, and Some Other Recent Half-Rhymes
145(24)
Oliver Taplin
Aeschylus, Race, Class, and War in the 1990s
169(30)
Edith Hall
Greek Tragedy in Cinema: Theatre, Politics, History
199(20)
Pantelis Michelakis
Greek Drama and Anti-Colonialism: Decolonizing Classics
219(24)
Lorna Hardwick
SECTION III: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Performance
243(68)
The Use of Masks in Modern Performances of Greek Drama
245(20)
David Wiles
Greek Notes in Samuel Beckett's Theatre Art
265(20)
Katharine Worth
Greek Tragedy in the Opera House and Concert Hall of the Late Twentieth Century
285(26)
Peter Brown
SECTION IV: Dionysus and the Life of the Mind
311(108)
Oedipus in the East End: from Freud to Berkoff
313(16)
Fiona Macintosh
Thinking about the Origins of Theatre in the 1970s
329(32)
Erika Fischer-Lichte
The Voices We Hear
361(8)
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Details of Productions Discussed
369(50)
Amanda Wrigley
References 419(26)
Index 445

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