| Description |
1 online resource (xxi, 469 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Classical presences |
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Classical presences.
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| Contents |
Mobilizing Antigone / Erin B. Mee, Helene P. Foley -- Antigone and the internationalization of theatre in antiquity / Edith Hall -- An Argentine tradition / Moira Fradinger -- Irish Antigone and burying the dead / Fiona Macintosh -- The fight for regional autonomy through regional culture : Antigone in Manipur, NE India / Erin B. Mee -- Danbala's daughter : Felix Morisseau-Leroy's Antigon / Moira Fradinger -- Antigone inculturated in Tainan of southern Taiwan / Dongshin Chang -- How the fish Swims in dirty water : Antigone in Indonesia / Cobina Gillitt -- Performing rebellion : Eurydice's cry in Turkey / Serap Erincin -- 'You should have listened instead of mocking the spirits' : Yup'ik Antigone in the Arctic / Dave Hunsaker -- Declaring and rethinking solidarity : Antigone in Cracow / Marc Robinson -- The Ku Na'uka Theatre Company's Antigone in Tokyo / Mae J. Smethurst -- 'Suspect always, like the truth' : the Antigone of Aris Alexandrou on the ruban stage of Thessaloniki, 2003 / Gonda Van Steen -- Antigone for young audiences : a protest parable / Mark Seamon -- Democracy at war : Antigone : insurgency in Toronto / Dongshin Chang -- No grave in the earth : Antigone's emigration and Arab circulations / Edward Ziter -- Never too late : Antigone in a German WWII cemetery in the Italian Appennines Mountains / Martina Treu -- Voice from the black box : Sylvain Bemba's Black wedding candles for blessed Antigone / Barbara Goff & Michael Simpson -- Antigone in Egypt / Nehad Selaiha -- Millennial Antigone in the US : Anouilh revisited / Helene P. Foley -- Antigone's journey : from Athens to Edinburgh, via Paris and Tbilisi / Lorna Hardwick -- 'Humanism', scenography, ideology : Antigone at the Finnish National Theatre, 1968 / Hana Worthen |
| Summary |
This book analyses what happens to Sophocles' play as it is adapted and (re)produced around the world, and it focuses specifically on Antigone in performance. The chapters highlight the numerous ways in which social, political, historical, and cultural contexts transform the material; how artists and audiences in diverse societies including Argentina, The Congo, Finland, Haiti, India, Japan, and the United States interact with it; and the variety of issues it has been used to address |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sophocles. Antigone.
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Sophocles -- Stage history
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Sophocles -- Appreciation
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| SUBJECT |
Sophocles fast |
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Antigone (Sophocles) fast |
| Subject |
DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
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Art appreciation
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Mee, Erin B., editor.
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Foley, Helene P., 1942- editor.
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| ISBN |
9780191618116 |
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019161811X |
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9780191728754 |
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0191728756 |
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