Dionysus Since 69
Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium
Edith Hall editor Amanda Wrigley editor Fiona Macintosh editor
Format:Hardback
Publisher:Oxford University Press
Published:8th Jan '04
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Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This book is the first to address the fundamental question, why has there been so much Greek tragedy in the theatres, opera houses and cinemas of the last three decades? A detailed chronological appendix of production information and lavish illustrations supplement the fourteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the worlds of classics, theatre studies, and the professional theatre. They relate the recent appeal of Greek tragedy to social trends, political developments, aesthetic and performative developments, and the intellectual currents of the last three decades, especially multiculturalism, post-colonialism, feminism, post-structuralism, revisions of psychoanalytical models, and secularization.
Hall's 46-page introduction to the volume is one of the best pieces that have been written so far in the area of Reception Studies of classical texts, and ought to be mandatory reading for anyone interested in this area. * Martin Revermann, Journal of Hellenic Studies *
...a major contribution to the year's work * Year's Work in Critical and Cultural Theory *
...reveals a wealth of understanding concerning the ways Greek tragedy has been read, received, interpreted and shared in recent decades, and points the way forward to other studies in this ever-increasing field. * C.W. Marshall, The Classical Review *
The quality of the contributions is uniformly high ... The range of methods is appealingly wide, providing readers with fascinating material ... Collectively, the volume gives an extremely stimulating up-to-date account of Greek tragedy in the last thirty or forty years ... deserves a wide readership ... The writing is accessible; illustrations are well selected ... index and bibliography are very detailed. * The Journal of Classics Teaching *
ISBN: 9780199259144
Dimensions: 223mm x 145mm x 32mm
Weight: 835g
500 pages