E-book
Reimagining Greek tragedy on the American stage
Record details
- ISBN: 9780520272446 (cloth : alkaline paper)
- ISBN: 9780520953659
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Physical Description:
1 online resource (xv, 375 pages :) illustrations ;
remote
Computer data.
electronic resource - Publisher: Berkeley University of California Press 2012
Content descriptions
| General Note: | CatMonthString:february.14 Multi-User. |
| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-361) and index. |
| Formatted Contents Note: | Greek tragedy finds an American audience -- Setting the stage -- American theater makes Greek tragedy its own -- Making total theater in America : choreography and music -- Hellenic influences on the development of American modern dance -- American Gesamtkunste Werke -- Musical theater -- Visual choreography in Robert Wilson's Alcestis -- Democratizing Greek tragedy -- Antigone and politics in the nineteenth century : the Boston 1890 Antigone -- Performance groups in the 1960s-1970s : Brecht's Antigone by the living theatre -- The 1980s and beyond : Peter Sellars' Persians, Ajax and the Children of Heracles compared with other versions of Persians and Ajax -- Aeschylus' Prometheus bound in the U.S. : from the threat of apocalypse to communal reconciliation -- Re-envisioning the hero : American Oedipus -- Oedipus as scapegoat -- Plagues -- Theban cycles -- Deconstructing fatality -- Abandonment -- Re-imagining Medea as American other -- Setting the stage : nineteenth century Medea -- Medea as social critic from the mid-1930s-the late 1940s -- Medea as ethnic other from the 1970s-the present -- Medea's divided self : drag and cross dressed performances. |
| Type of Computer File or Data Note: | Text (HTML), electronic book. |
| System Details Note: | Mode of access: Internet. System requirements: ActiveX control installed on computer; optional Ebrary Reader (downloadable from Ebrary website). |
| Terms Governing Use and Reproduction Note: | Access restricted by subscription. Access requires VIU IP addresses and is restricted to VIU students, faculty and staff. |
| Issuing Body Note: | Made available online by Project Muse. |
| Source of Description Note: | Description based on print version record. |
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| Subject: | Multi-User. Greek drama -- History and criticism Theater -- United States -- History |
| Genre: | Electronic books. |
