Re-imagining Greek tragedy on the American stage
By: Helene P. Foley
Series: Sather classical lectures -- 70; Sather classical lectures -- v. 70.
Publisher: University of California Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Berkeley
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780520272446
Subjects: Greek drama; History and criticism; Theater; History
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Greek tragedy finds an American audience; title: Setting the stage; title: American theater makes Greek tragedy its own; title: Making total theater in America: choreography and music; title: Hellenic influences on the development of American modern dance; title: American Gesamtkunste Werke; title: Musical theater; title: Visual choreography in Robert Wilson's Alcestis; title: Democratizing Greek tragedy; title: Antigone and politics in the nineteenth century: the Boston 1890 Antigone; title: Performance groups in the 1960s-1970s: Brecht's Antigone by the living theatre; title: The 1980s and beyond: Peter Sellars' Persians, Ajax and the Children of Heracles compared with other versions of Persians and Ajax; title: Aeschylus' Prometheus bound in the U.S.: from the threat of apocalypse to communal reconciliation; title: Re-envisioning the hero: American Oedipus; title: Oedipus as scapegoat; title: Plagues; title: Theban cycles; title: Deconstructing fatality; title: Abandonment; title: Re-imagining Medea as American other; title: Setting the stage: nineteenth century Medea; title: Medea as social critic from the mid-1930s-the late 1940s; title: Medea as ethnic other from the 1970s-the present; title: Medea's divided self: drag and cross dressed performances.