Adaptations of Greek tragedy are increasingly claiming our attention as a dynamic way of engaging with a dramatic genre that flourished in Greece some twenty-five centuries ago but remains as vital as ever. In this volume, fifteen leading scholars and practitioners of the theatre systematically disc...

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1. Verfasser:	Liapēs, Vaios 1972- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Buch
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	[New York] Cambridge University Press 2021
Ausgabe:	1. Auflage
Zusammenfassung:	Adaptations of Greek tragedy are increasingly claiming our attention as a dynamic way of engaging with a dramatic genre that flourished in Greece some twenty-five centuries ago but remains as vital as ever. In this volume, fifteen leading scholars and practitioners of the theatre systematically discuss contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy and explore the challenges and rewards involved therein. Adopting a variety of methodologies, viewpoints and approaches, the volume offers surveys of recent developments in the field, engages with challenging theoretical issues, and shows how adapting Greek tragedy can throw new light on a range of contemporary issues — from our relation to the classical past and our shifting perceptions of ethnic and cultural identities to the place, function and market-value of Greek drama in today's cultural industries. The volume will be welcomed by students and scholars in Classics, Theatre, Drama and Performance Studies, as well as by theatre practitioners
Beschreibung:	includes bibliographical references and index Introduction; Prelude: Adapting Greek Tragedy: A Historical Perspective Vayos Liapis; Part I: Adapting Greek Tragedy: Definitions, Conceptual Foundations, Ethics: 1. Definitions: Adaptation and Related Modalities Katja Krebs; 2. Forsaking the Fidelity Discourse: The Application of Adaptation Peter Meineck; 3. Translation and/as Adaptation Lorna Hardwick; 4. Adaptation as a Love Affair: The Ethics of Directing the Greeks Avra Sidiropoulou; Part II: Adaptation on the Page and on the Stage: Re-inscribing the Greek Classics: 5. Interlude: Speaking Up: Theatre Practitioners on Adapting the Classics; 6. The View from the Archive: Performances of Ancient Tragedy at the National Theatre, 1963–1973 Adam Lecznar; 7. Compromise, Contingency, and Gendered Adaptation: The Case of the Malthouse's Antigone Jane Montgomery Griffiths; 8. Technology, Media and Intermediality in Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy Peter Campbell; 9. Violence in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy Simon Perris; 10. Adaptations of Greek Tragedies in non-Western Performance Cultures Erika Fischer-Lichte; 11. Cultural Identities: Appropriations of Greek Tragedy in Post-colonial Discourse Elke Steinmeyer; 12. Trapped between Fidelity and Adaptation? On the Reception of Ancient Greek Tragedy in Modern Greece Anastasia Bakogianni; 13. Adaptation and the Transtextual Palimpsest: Anne Carson's Antigonick as a Textual/Visual Hybrid Vayos Liapis
Beschreibung:	x, 436 Seiten Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781107155701 9781316609408