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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Fiona Macintosh (Professor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), and Fellow of St Hilda's College, University of Oxford) , Justine McConnell (Lecturer in Comparative Literature, King's College London) , Stephen Harrison (Professor of Latin Literature and Fellow and Tutor in Classics, Corpus Christi College, University of Oxford) , Claire Kenward (Archivist and Researcher, Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), University of Oxford)Publisher: Oxford University Press Imprint: Oxford University Press Dimensions: Width: 16.40cm , Height: 4.20cm , Length: 23.80cm Weight: 1.154kg ISBN: 9780198804215ISBN 10: 0198804210 Pages: 672 Publication Date: 08 November 2018 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsFrontmatter List of Illustrations List of Contributors Note on Nomenclature, Spelling, and Texts I. DEFINING TERMS 1: Fiona Macintosh: 'Epic' Performances: From Brecht to Homer and Back 2: Barbara Graziosi: Performing Epic and Reading Homer: An Aristotelean Perspective 3: Colin Burrow: Shakespeare and Epic 4: Tim Supple: Theatre on an Epic Scale II. CROSSING GENRES 5: Tanya Pollard: Encountering Homer through Greek Plays in Sixteenth-Century Europe 6: David Wiles: Epic Acting in Shakespeare's Hamlet 7: Marchella Ward: 'I am that same wall; the truth is so': Performing a Tale from Ovid 8: Wes Williams: Monsters and the Question of Inheritance in Early Modern French Theatre 9: Pantelis Michelakis: The Future of Epic in Cinema: Tropes of Reproduction in Ridley Scott's Prometheus 10: Georgina Paul: From Epic to Lyric: Alice Oswald's and Barbara Koehler's Refigurings of Homeric Epic 11: Arabella Stanger: Choreographing Epic: The Ocean as Epic 'Timespace' in Homer, Joyce, and Cunningham 12: Marie-Louise Crawley: Epic Bodies: Filtering the Past and Embodying the Present A Performer's Perspective III. FORMAL REFRACTIONS 13: Margaret Kean: A Harmless Distemper: Accessing the Classical Underworld in Heywood's The Silver Age 14: Tom Sapsford: Epic Poetry into Contemporary Choreography: Two Twenty-First Century Dance Adaptations of the Odyssey 15: Robin Kirkpatrick: Voicing Virgil: Dante Performs the Latin Epic 16: Graeme Bird: Homer as Improviser? 17: Henry Power: 'Now hear this': Text and Performance in Christopher Logue's War Music (1959-2011) 18: Stephe Harrop: Unfixing Epic: Homeric Orality and Contemporary Performance 19: Emily Greenwood: Multimodal Twenty-First Century Bards: From Live Performance to Audiobook in the Homeric Adaptations of Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald 20: Emily Pillinger: Homer 'viewed from the corridor': Epic Refracted in Michael Tippett's King Priam IV. EMPIRE AND POLITICS 21: Tatiana Faia: Institutional Receptions: Camoes, Saramago, and the Contemporary Politics of The Lusiads on Stage 22: Tiphaine Karsenti: Achilles in French Tragedy (1563-1680) 23: Imogen Choi: The Spectacle of Conquest: Epic Conflicts on the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Stage 24: Frederick Naerebout: Epic on Stage in the Dutch Republic 25: Deana Rankin: 'Marpesia cautes': Voicing Amazons, England and Ireland, 1640 26: Stephen Harrison: After the Aeneid: Ascanius in Eighteenth-Century Opera 27: Patrice Rankine: Epic Performance through Invencao de Orfeu and An Iliad: Two Instantiations of Epic as Embodiment in the Americas 28: Justine McConnell: Performing Walcott, Performing Homer: Omeros on Stage and Screen V. HIGH AND LOW 29: Claire Kenward: 'Of arms and the man': Thersites in Early Modern English Drama 30: Edith Hall: Classical Epic and the London Fairs, 1697-1734 31: Henry Stead: Classical Epic in Early Musical Theatre: The Case of Kane O'Hara's Midas 32: Fiona Macintosh: Epic Transposed: The Real and the Hyper-Real during the Revolutionary Period in France 33: Cecile Dudouyt: Epic Hogs at the Comedie-Francaise: Francois Ponsard's Ulysse (1852) 34: Laura Monros-Gaspar: Epic Cassandras in Performance, 1795-1868 35: Margaret Reynolds: 'Of the rage, sing Goddess': Epic Opera 36: Rachel Bryant Davies: Fish, Firemen, and Prize Fighters: The Transformation of the Iliad and Aeneid on the London Burlesque Stage Lorna Hardwick: Epilogue. Voices, Bodies, Silences, and Media: Heightened Receptivity in Epic in Performance Endmatter Bibliography IndexReviewsAuthor InformationFiona Macintosh is Professor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), and Fellow of St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama (Cork University Press, 1994), Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre, 1660-1914 (with Edith Hall; OUP, 2005), and Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus (CUP, 2009), and has also edited numerous APGRD volumes, including most recently The Ancient Dancer in the Modern World: Responses to Greek and Roman Dance (OUP, 2010) and The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas (with Kathryn Bosher, Justine McConnell, and Patrice Rankine; OUP, 2015). Justine McConnell is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London. She is the author of Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since 1939 (OUP, 2013), and co-editor of three volumes: Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood (with Edith Hall and Richard Alson; OUP, 2011), The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas (with Kathryn Bosher, Fiona Macintosh, and Patrice Rankine; OUP, 2015), and Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 (with Edith Hall; Bloomsbury, 2016). Stephen Harrison is Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford, Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Adjunct Professor at the universities of Copenhagen and Trondheim. He has published extensively on Latin literature and its reception, including the following volumes: A Commentary on Vergil, Aeneid 10 (OUP, 1991), Generic Enrichment in Vergil and Horace (OUP, 2007), Living Classics: Greece and Rome in Contemporary Poetry in English (edited volume; OUP, 2009), Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays (co-edited with Amanda Wrigley; OUP, 2013), and Classics in the Modern World: A Democratic Turn? (co-edited with Lorna Hardwick; OUP, 2013). Dr Claire Kenward is Archivist and Researcher at the University of Oxford's Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD). She has published on the reception of Greek drama and epic in early modern England, though her current research and forthcoming publications focus on the reception of Homer's Iliad in science fiction and speculative fantasy; she is also the co-author and curator of the APGRD's two multimedia, interactive eBooks: Medea - A Performance History (2016) and Agamemnon - A Performance History (2018). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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