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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Helene P. FoleyPublisher: University of California Press Imprint: University of California Press Volume: 70 Dimensions: Width: 15.20cm , Height: 3.00cm , Length: 22.90cm Weight: 0.771kg ISBN: 9780520283879ISBN 10: 0520283872 Pages: 396 Publication Date: 26 June 2014 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Out of stock  The supplier is temporarily out of stock of this item. It will be ordered for you on backorder and shipped when it becomes available. Table of ContentsList of Illustrations Preface Introduction CHAPTER ONE. Greek Tragedy Finds an American Audience 1. Setting the Stage 2. American Theater Makes Greek Tragedy Its Own CHAPTER TWO. Making Total Theater in America: Choreography and Music 1. Hellenic Influences on the Development of American Modern Dance 2. American Gesamtkunstwerke 3. Musical Theater 4. Visual Choreography in Robert Wilson's Alcestis CHAPTER THREE. Democratizing Greek Tragedy 1. Antigone and Politics in the Nineteenth Century: The Boston 1890 Antigone 2. Performance Groups in the 1960s--1970s: Brecht's Antigone by The Living Theatre 3. The 1980s and Beyond: Peter Sellars's Persians, Ajax, and Children of Heracles 4. Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound in the United States: From the Threat of Apocalypse to Communal Reconciliation CHAPTER FOUR. Reenvisioning the Hero: American Oedipus 1. Oedipus as Scapegoat 2. Plagues 3. Theban Cycles 4. Deconstructing Fatality 5. Abandonment CHAPTER FIVE. Reimagining Medea as American Other 1. Setting the Stage: Nineteenth-Century Medea 2. Medea as Social Critic from the Mid-1930s to the Late 1940s 3. Medea as Ethnic Other from the 1970s to the Present 4. Medea's Divided Self: Drag and Cross-Dressed Performances Epilogue Appendix A. Professional Productions and New Versions of Sophocles' and Euripides' Electras Appendix B. Professional Productions and New Versions of Antigone Appendix C. Professional Productions and New Versions of Aeschylus's Persians, Sophocles' Ajax, and Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound Appendix D. Professional Productions and New Versions of Oedipus Tyrannus Appendix E. Professional Productions and New Versions of Euripides' Medea Appendix F. Professional Productions and New Versions of Euripides' Iphigeneia in Aulis and Iphigeneia in Tauris Appendix G. Other Professional Productions and New Versions Notes References IndexReviewsObligatory reading for anyone interested in Greek tragedy, reception studies, the history of the theater, or US cultural history... Essential. -- P. Nieto, Brown University Choice 20130123 [A] monumental mosaic of a book. -- Oliver P. Foley The Times Literary Supplement 20130510 Obligatory reading for anyone interested in Greek tragedy, reception studies, the history of the theater, or US cultural history... Essential. -- P. Nieto, Brown University Choice [A] monumental mosaic of a book. -- Oliver P. Foley The Times Literary Supplement Author InformationHelene P. Foley is Professor of Classics at Barnard College, Columbia University. Her many books include Ritual Irony and Female Acts in Greek Tragedy. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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