Theorising performance
Subtitle: Greek drama, cultural history and critical practice
By: edited by Edith Hall & Stephe Harrop
Publisher: Duckworth
Published: 2010
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 305
ISBN-13: 9780715638262
Subjects: Modern presentation; Grekisk dramatik; Greek drama; Literature; Aufführung; History and criticism; Drama; Rezeption; Congresses; Griechisch
Other titles: Theorizing performance
Description: This collection provides an analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective.
Notes: "Inspired by a conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama (APGRD) in Oxford"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Towards a theory of performance reception  -- Edith Hall; title: Performance as event :; title: reception as transformation  -- Erika Fischer-Lichte; title: Greek and Shakespearean plays in performance :; title: their different academic receptions  -- David Wiles; title: Cultural history and aesthetics :; title: why Kant is no place to start reception studies  -- Simon Goldhill; title: Performance, reception, aesthetics :; title: or why reception studies need Kant  -- Charles Martindale; title: From à la carte to convergence :; title: symptoms of interdisciplinarity in reception theory  -- Zachary Dunbar; title: Archiving events, performing documents :; title: on the seductions and challenges of performance archives  -- Pantelis Michelakis; title: Bringing together nature and culture :; title: on the uses and limits of cognitive science for the study of performance reception  -- Felix Budelmann; title: Does a Deleuzean philosophy of radical physicality lead to the 'death of tragedy'? :; title: some thoughts on the dismissal of the climactic orientation of Greek tragedy  -- Freddy Decreus; title: Generic ambiguity in modern productions and new versions of Greek tragedy  -- Helene Foley; title: Revising 'authenticity' in staging ancient Mediterranean drama  -- Mary-Kay Gamel; title: Towards theorising the place of costume in performance reception  -- Rosie Wyles; title: Performance reception and the 'textual twist' :; title: towards a theory of literary reception  -- Simon Perris; title: Negotiating translation for the stage  -- Lorna Hardwick; title: From translation to performance reception :; title: the death of the author and the performance text  -- Eleftheria Ionnidou; title: Acting perspectives :; title: the phenomenology of performance as a route to reception  -- Jane Montgomery Griffiths; title: Physical performance and the languages of translation  -- Stephe Harrop; title: 'Spatial poetics' and Greek drama :; title: scenography as reception  -- Paul Monaghan; title: Translating Greek drama for performance -- Blake Morrison.