Adapting Greek tragedy : contemporary contexts for ancient texts /

"Adaptations of Greek tragedy are increasingly claiming our attention as a dynamic way of engaging with a dramatic genre that flourished in Greece some 25 centuries ago but remains as vital as ever. In this volume, fifteen leading scholars and practitioners of the theatre systematically discuss...

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Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Λιαπής, Βάιος (επιμελητής), Σιδηροπούλου, Αύρα, 1972- (επιμελήτρια)
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2021.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • Prelude. Adapting Greek tragedy : a historical perspective / Vayos Liapis
  • Part I. Adapting Greek tragedy : definitions, conceptual foundations, ethics. Definitions : adaptation and related modalities / Katja Krebs
  • Forsaking the fidelity discourse : the application of adaptation / Peter Meineck
  • Translation and/as adaptation / Lorna Hardwick
  • Adaptation as a love affair : the ethics of directing the Greeks / Avra Sidiropoulou
  • Part II. Adaptation on the page and on the stage : re-inscribing the Greek classics. Speaking up : theatre practitioners on adapting the classics
  • The view from the archive : performances of ancient tragedy at the National Theatre, 1963-1973 / Adam Lecznar
  • Compromise, contingency, and gendered adaptation : the case of Malthouse's Antigone / Jane Montgomery Griffiths
  • Technology, media and intermediality in contemporary adaptations of Greek tragedy / Peter Campbell
  • Violence in adaptations of Greek tragedy / Simon Perris
  • Adaptations of Greek tragedies in non-Western performance cultures / Erika Fischer-Lichte
  • Cultural identities : appropriations of Greek tragedy in post-colonial discourse / Elke Steinmeyer
  • Trapped between fidelity and adaptation? On the reception of ancient Greek tragedy in modern Greece / Anastasia Bakogianni
  • Adaptation and the transtextual palimpsest : Anne Carson's Antigonick as a textual/visual hybrid / Vayos Liapis.