Reimagining Greek tragedy on the American stage / Helene P. Foley.
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Foley, Helene P., 1942- (författare)
- ISBN 9780520272446
- Berkeley ; University of California Press, 2012.
- Engelska xv, 375 p.
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Serie: Sather classical lectures, 0080-6684 ; 70
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- Greek tragedy finds an American audience -- Setting the stage -- American theater makes Greek tragedy its own -- Making total theater in America: choreography and music -- Hellenic influences on the development of American modern dance -- American Gesamtkunste Werke -- Musical theater -- Visual choreography in Robert Wilson's Alcestis -- Democratizing Greek tragedy -- Antigone and politics in the nineteenth century: the Boston 1890 Antigone -- Performance groups in the 1960s-1970s: Brecht's Antigone by the living theatre -- The 1980s and beyond: Peter Sellars' Persians, Ajax and the Children of Heracles compared with other versions of Persians and Ajax -- Aeschylus' Prometheus bound in the U.S.: from the threat of apocalypse to communal reconciliation -- Re-envisioning the hero: American Oedipus -- Oedipus as scapegoat -- Plagues -- Theban cycles -- Deconstructing fatality -- Abandonment -- Re-imagining Medea as American other -- Setting the stage: nineteenth century Medea -- Medea as social critic from the mid-1930s-the late 1940s -- Medea as ethnic other from the 1970s-the present -- Medea's divided self: drag and cross dressed performances.
Ämnesord
- Grekisk dramatik (sao)
- Teater -- historia (sao)
- Greek drama (LCSH)
- Theater -- History (LCSH)
- Greek drama -- History and criticism. (LCSH)
- Theater -- United States -- History. (LCSH)
- Förenta staterna
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- PA3131 (LCC)
- 792.1/20973 (DDC)
- Goa.02
- Ikb-qa
- Ika (kssb/8 (machine generated))
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