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Dionysus Since 69 Edith Hall (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)

Dionysus Since 69 By Edith Hall (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)

Dionysus Since 69 by Edith Hall (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)

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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, theatre studies, and the professional theatre, who relate the recent production history of Greek tragedy to social and academic trends.

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Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium by Edith Hall (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)

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.

Dionysus Since 69 Reviews

Hall's 46-page introduction to the volume is one of the best pieces that have been written so far in the area of Reception Studies of classical texts, and ought to be mandatory reading for anyone interested in this area. * Martin Revermann, Journal of Hellenic Studies *
...a major contribution to the year's work * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *
...reveals a wealth of understanding concerning the ways Greek tragedy has been read, received, interpreted and shared in recent decades, and points the way forward to other studies in this ever-increasing field. * C.W. Marshall, The Classical Review *
The quality of the contributions is uniformly high ... The range of methods is appealingly wide, providing readers with fascinating material ... Collectively, the volume gives an extremely stimulating up-to-date account of Greek tragedy in the last thirty or forty years ... deserves a wide readership ... The writing is accessible; illustrations are well selected ... index and bibliography are very detailed. * The Journal of Classics Teaching *

About Edith Hall (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)

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

1. Introduction: Why Greek tragedy since the late 1960s? ; 1. DIONYSUS AND THE SEX WAR ; 2. Dionysus in '69 ; 3. Bad women: gender politics in late twentieth-century performance and revision of Greek tragedy ; 4. Heracles as Dr Strangelove and GI Joe: male heroism deconstructed ; 2. DIONYSUS IN POLITICS ; 5. Sophocles' Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney's, and some other recent half-rhymes ; 6. Aeschylus, race, class, and war in the 1990s ; 7. Greek tragedy in cinema: theatre, politics, history ; 8. Greek drama and anti-colonialism: decolonising Classics ; 3. DIONYSUS AND THE AESTHETICS OF PERFORMANCE ; 9. The use of masks in modern performances of Greek tragedy ; 10. Greek notes in Samuel Beckett's theatre art ; 11. Greek Tragedy in late twentieth-century opera ; 4. DIONYSUS AND THE LIFE OF THE MIND ; 12. Oedipus in the East End: from Freus to Berkoff ; 13. Thinking about the origins of theatre in the 1970s ; 14. The voices we hear ; 15. Details of productions discussed

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NPB9780199259144
9780199259144
0199259143
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium by Edith Hall (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)
Edith Hall (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)
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2004-01-08
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