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Title The reception of Aeschylus' plays through shifting models and frontiers / edited by Stratos E. Constantinidis
Published Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2017]
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Description 1 online resource (xv, 409 pages)
Series Metaforms, studies in the reception of classical antiquity ; volume 7
Metaforms ; v. 7.
Contents Editing Aeschylus for a modern readership: textual criticism and other concerns / A.F. Garvie -- Aeschylus and his afterlife in the classical period: "my poetry did not die with me" / Johann Hanink and Anna S. Uhlig -- Promotheus Bound in translation: "the true Promethean fire" -- Aeschylus' Seven against Thebes: war, women, and the Hecht/Bacon translation / Deborah H. Roberts -- Aeschylus in the balance: weighing corpses and the problem of translation / Rush Rehm -- Cognitive theory and Aeschylus: translating beyond the lexicon / Peter Meineck -- Aeschylus and Western opera / Sarah Brown Ferrario -- Aeschylus' Cassandra in the operas of Taneyev and Gnecchi / Dana L. Munteanu -- Pop music adaptations of Aeschylus' plays: what kind of rock was Prometheus fastened to? / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- Aeschylus as postdramatic analogue: "a thing both cool and fiery" / Paul Monaghan -- Voices of trauma: remaking Aeschylus' Agamemnon in the twentieth century / Lorna Hardwick -- The Oresteia in Kannada: the Indian context / Vijaya Guttal -- Two centuries, two Oresteias, two remakes / Helen E. Moritz
Summary The Reception of Aeschylus' Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers' addresses the need for an integrated approach to the study and staging of Aeschylus' plays. It offers an invigorating discussion about the transmission and reception of his plays and explores the interrelated tasks of editing, translating, adapting and remaking them for the page and the stage. The volume seeks to reshape current debates about the place of his tragedies in the curriculum and the repertory in a scholarly manner that is accessible and innovative. Each chapter makes a significant and original contribution to its selected topic, but the collective strength of the volume rests on its simultaneous appeal to readers in theatre studies, classical studies, performance studies, comparative studies, translation studies, adaptation studies, and, naturally, reception studies
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Aeschylus -- Appreciation
Aeschylus -- Criticism and interpretation
Aeschylus
DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
Art appreciation
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Constantinidis, Stratos E., editor
LC no. 2016043088
ISBN 9789004332164
9004332162