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

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

• ISBN13: 9780199281312
• ISBN10: 0199281319
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2005-03-10
• 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
1. Introduction: Why Greek Tragedy in the Late Twentieth Century?
Edith Hall	1	(46)
SECTION I: Dionysus and the Sex War	47	(96)
2. Dionysus in	69	(8)
Froma I. Zeitlin	49	(28)
3. Bad Women: Gender Politics in Late Twentieth-Century Performance and Revision of Greek Tragedy
Helene Foley	77	(36)
4. Heracles as Dr Strangelove and GI Joe: Male Heroism Deconstructed
Kathleen Riley	113	(30)
SECTION II: Dionysus in Politics	143	(100)
5. Sophocles' Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney's, and Some Other Recent Half-Rhymes
Oliver Taplin	145	(24)
6. Aeschylus, Race, Class, and War in the 1990's
Edith Hall	169	(30)
7. Greek Tragedy in Cinema: Theatre, Politics, History
Pantelis Michelakis	199	(20)
8. Greek Drama and Anti-Colonialism: Decolonizing Classics
Lorna Hardwick	219	(24)
SECTION III: Dionysus and the Aesthetics of Performance	243	(68)
9. The Use of Masks in Modern Performances of Greek Drama
David Wiles	245	(20)
10. Greek Notes in Samuel Beckett's Theatre Art
Katharine Worth	265	(20)
11. Greek Tragedy in the Opera House and Concert Hall of the Late Twentieth Century
Peter Brown	285	(26)
SECTION IV: Dionysus and the Life of the Mind	311	(108)
12. Oedipus in the East End: from Freud to Berkoff
Fiona Macintosh	313	(16)
13. Thinking about the Origins of Theatre in the 1970's
Erika Fischer-Lichte	329	(32)
14. The Voices We Hear
Timberlake Wertenbaker	361	(8)
15. Details of Productions Discussed
Amanda Wrigley	369	(50)
References	419	(26)
Index	445