Re-imagining Greek tragedy on the American stage

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Re-imagining Greek tragedy on the American stage
2012, University of California Press
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Table of Contents

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.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Berkeley
Series
Sather classical lectures -- 70, Sather classical lectures -- v. 70.

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Dewey Decimal Class
792.1/20973
Library of Congress
PA3131 .G554 2012, PA3131 .F54 2012, PA3131.G554 2012, PA3131 .F554 2012

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Pagination
pages. cm.

ID Numbers

Open Library
OL25173700M
ISBN 13
9780520272446
LCCN
2012000823
OCLC/WorldCat
772528320

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