| Description |
xviii, 480 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Introduction why Greek tragedy in the late twentieth century? / Edith Hall -- Dionysus in 69 / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Bad women : gender politics in late twentieth-century performance and revision of Greek tragedy / Helene Foley -- Heracles as Dr Strangelove and GI Joe : male heroism deconstructed / Kathleen Riley -- Sophocles' Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney's, and some other recent half-rhymes / Oliver Taplin -- Aeschylus, race, class, and war in the 1990s / Edith Hall -- Greek tragedy in cinema : theatre, politics, history / vPantelis Michelakis -- Greek drama and anti-colonialism : decolonizing classics / Lorna Hardwick -- Use of masks in modern performances of Greek drama / David Wiles -- Greek notes in Samuel Beckett's theatre art / Katharine Worth -- Greek tragedy in the opera house and concert hall of the late twentieth century / Peter Brown -- Oedipus in the East End : from Freud to Berkoff / Fiona Macintosh -- Thinking about the origins of theatre in the 1970s / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Voices we hear / Timberlake Wertenbaker -- Details of production discussed / Amanda Wrigley |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [419]-444) and index |
| Subject |
Dionysus (Greek deity) -- Drama.
|
|
Dionysus (Greek deity) -- In literature
|
|
Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Adaptations -- History and criticism.
|
|
Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Appreciation -- Foreign countries.
|
|
Greek drama (Tragedy) -- History and criticism.
|
|
Greek drama -- Modern presentation.
|
|
Theater -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Theater -- Production and direction -- History -- 20th century.
|
|
Theater -- Production and direction.
|
| Genre/Form |
Drama.
|
| Author |
Hall, Edith, 1959-
|
|
Macintosh, Fiona, 1951-
|
|
Wrigley, Amanda.
|
| LC no. |
2004298372 |
| ISBN |
0199259143 |
|
0199281319 (paperback) |
|
