| Description |
1 online resource (xvii, 461 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Classical presences |
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Classical presences.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- Habima -- The Cameri -- Experimentations -- Aristophanes and the occupied territoreis -- The Trojan war and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- Lysistrata -- Nissim Aloni -- Hanoch Levin -- Classical presnces and 'post dramatic' performances -- The classical tradition in the university theatre -- Israeli theatre |
| Summary |
How does a theatrical tradition emerge in the fields of dramatic writing and artistic performance? Can a culture, in which theatre played no part in the past, create a theatrical tradition in real time—and how? What was the contribution of classical Greek drama to the evolution of Israeli theatre? How do political and social conditions affect the encounter between cultures—and what role do they play in creating a theatre with a distinctive identity? This book, the first of its kind, attempts to answer these and other questions, by examining the reception of classical Greek drama in the Israeli theatre over the last seventy years. It deals with dramatic and aesthetic issues while analysing translations, adaptations, new writing, mise-en-scène, and ‘post dramatic’ performances of classical Greek drama that were created and staged at key points of the development of Israeli culture amidst fateful political, social, and cultural events in the country’s history |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on December 10, 2018) |
| Subject |
Theater -- Israel -- History
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Theater and society -- Israel
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Greek drama -- Appreciation -- Israel -- History
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PERFORMING ARTS -- Theater -- General.
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Theater and society
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Greek drama -- Appreciation
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Theater
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Israel
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780191063602 |
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0191063606 |
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9780191808531 |
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0191808539 |
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