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Title Theorising performance : Greek drama, cultural history and critical practice / edited by Edith Hall & Stephe Harrop
Published London : Duckworth, 2010

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages) : illustrations
Contents Towards a theory of performance reception / Edith Hall -- Performance as event : reception as transformation / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Greek and Shakespearean plays in performance : their different academic receptions / David Wiles -- Cultural history and aesthetics : why Kant is no place to start reception studies / Simon Goldhill -- Performance, reception, aesthetics : or why reception studies need Kant / Charles Martindale -- From à la carte to convergence : symptoms of interdisciplinarity in reception theory / Zachary Dunbar -- Archiving events, performing documents : on the seductions and challenges of performance archives / Pantelis Michelakis -- Bringing together nature and culture : on the uses and limits of cognitive science for the study of performance reception / Felix Budelmann -- Does a Deleuzean philosophy of radical physicality lead to the 'death of tragedy'? : some thoughts on the dismissal of the climactic orientation of Greek tragedy / Freddy Decreus -- Generic ambiguity in modern productions and new versions of Greek tragedy / Helene Foley -- Revising 'authenticity' in staging ancient Mediterranean drama / Mary-Kay Gamel -- Towards theorising the place of costume in performance reception / Rosie Wyles -- Performance reception and the 'textual twist' : towards a theory of literary reception / Simon Perris -- Negotiating translation for the stage / Lorna Hardwick -- From translation to performance reception : the death of the author and the performance text / Eleftheria Ionnidou -- Acting perspectives : the phenomenology of performance as a route to reception / Jane Montgomery Griffiths -- Physical performance and the languages of translation / Stephe Harrop -- 'Spatial poetics' and Greek drama : scenography as reception / Paul Monaghan -- Translating Greek drama for performance / Blake Morrison
Summary This collection provides an analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective
Notes "Inspired by a conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama (APGRD) in Oxford"--Page 4 of cover
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
Subject Greek drama -- Modern presentation -- Congresses
Greek drama -- History and criticism -- Congresses
LITERARY CRITICISM -- Ancient & Classical.
Literature.
Greek drama
Greek drama -- Modern presentation
Aufführung
Rezeption
Drama
Grekisk dramatik.
Griechisch.
Genre/Form Conference papers and proceedings
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Aufsatzsammlung.
Form Electronic book
Author Hall, Edith, 1959- editor.
Harrop, Stephe, editor
ISBN 9780715638262
0715638262
9781472540430
1472540433
9781472519788
1472519787
9781472519771
1472519779
Other Titles Theorizing performance