Dionysus since 69 Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium

by Hall, Edith; Macintosh, Fiona; Wrigley, Amanda

• ISBN13: 9780199259144
• ISBN10: 0199259143
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2004-03-11
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This lavishly illustrated book is the first attempt fully to document and explain its revival. It assembles fourteen essays by specialists from classics, theater studies, and the professional theater, who relate the recent production history of Greek tragedy to social and academic trends.

Author Biography

Edith Hall is Leverhulme Professor of Greek Cultural History at the University of Durham and Co-Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford Fiona Macintosh is Senior Research Fellow at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford Amanda Wrigley is Researcher at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford

Table of Contents

List of Illustrations	ix
List of Contributors	xiii
Lectures at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama 1997--2002	xvii
Note on Nomenclature, Spelling, and Texts	xix
Introduction: Why Greek Tragedy in the Late Twentieth Century?	1	(46)
Edith Hall
SECTION I: Dionysus and the Sex War	47	(96)
Dionysus in 69	49	(28)
Froma I. Zeitlin
Bad Women: Gender Politics in Late Twentieth-Century Performance and Revision of Greek Tragedy	77	(36)
Helene Foley
Heracles as Dr Strangelove and GI Joe: Male Heroism Deconstructed	113	(30)
Kathleen Riley
SECTION II: Dionysus in Politics	143	(100)
Sophocles' Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney's, and Some Other Recent Half-Rhymes	145	(24)
Oliver Taplin
Aeschylus, Race, Class, and War in the 1990s	169	(30)
Edith Hall
Greek Tragedy in Cinema: Theatre, Politics, History	199	(20)
Pantelis Michelakis
Greek Drama and Anti-Colonialism: Decolonizing Classics	219	(24)
Lorna Hardwick
SECTION III: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Performance	243	(68)
The Use of Masks in Modern Performances of Greek Drama	245	(20)
David Wiles
Greek Notes in Samuel Beckett's Theatre Art	265	(20)
Katharine Worth
Greek Tragedy in the Opera House and Concert Hall of the Late Twentieth Century	285	(26)
Peter Brown
SECTION IV: Dionysus and the Life of the Mind	311	(108)
Oedipus in the East End: from Freud to Berkoff	313	(16)
Fiona Macintosh
Thinking about the Origins of Theatre in the 1970s	329	(32)
Erika Fischer-Lichte
The Voices We Hear	361	(8)
Timberlake Wertenbaker
Details of Productions Discussed	369	(50)
Amanda Wrigley
References	419	(26)
Index	445