| Description |
1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations |
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Blackwell Bristol lectures on Greece, Rome and the classical tradition |
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Blackwell Bristol lectures on Greece, Rome and the classical tradition.
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| Contents |
Dionysus Resurrected: Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Re-enter Dionysus; The Topicality of The Bacchae; Theories of Sacrificial Ritual in the 1970s; From "Text" to "Performance": A New Theatre Aesthetics; Notes; References; Further Reading; Part I: Festivals of Liberation: Celebrating Communality; Chapter 1: The Birth Ritual of a New Theatre; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 2: Celebrating a Communion Rite?; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 3: Sparagmos and Omophagia; Notes; References |
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Further ReadingPart II: Renegotiating Cultural Identities; Chapter 4: On the Strangeness and Inaccessibility of the Past; Note; References; Further Reading; Chapter 5: Performing or Contaminating Greekness?; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 6: In Search of New Identities; Notes; References; Part III: Productive Encounter or Destructive Clash of Cultures?; Chapter 7: Dismemberment and the Quest for Wholeness; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 8: Transforming Kathakali; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 9: Beijing Opera Dismembered; Notes; References |
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Further ReadingEpilogue; Name Index; Subject Index |
| Summary |
Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides' The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing these modern day performances, the author reveals striking parallels between transformational events taking place during the era of the play's revival and events within the play itself. Puts forward a lively discussion of the parallels between transformational eventsduring the era of the play's revival and events within the play itselfThe first comparative study to analyse and contextualize performances of The Bacchae that took place between 1968 and 2009 from t |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed December 12, 2013) |
| Subject |
Euripides -- Stage history
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Euripides. Bacchae.
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Euripides |
| SUBJECT |
Bacchae (Euripides) fast |
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Greek drama -- Modern presentation.
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DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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Greek drama -- Modern presentation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781118609781 |
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1118609786 |
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1405175788 |
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9781405175784 |
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9781118609774 |
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1118609778 |
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1118609751 |
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9781118609750 |
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1306140862 |
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9781306140867 |
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