Theorising performance : Greek drama, cultural history and critical practice / edited by Edith Hall & Stephe Harrop.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hall, Edith, 1959- editor.

Harrop, Stephe, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama--Modern presentation--Congresses.

Greek drama.

Greek drama--History and criticism--Congresses.

Greek drama--Modern presentation.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xiii, 305 pages) : illustrations

Other Title:

Theorizing performance

Place of Publication:

London : Duckworth, 2010.

System Details:

text file

Summary:

This collection provides an analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective.

Contents:

Towards a theory of performance reception / Edith Hall

Performance as event : reception as transformation / Erika Fischer-Lichte

Greek and Shakespearean plays in performance : their different academic receptions / David Wiles

Cultural history and aesthetics : why Kant is no place to start reception studies / Simon Goldhill

Performance, reception, aesthetics : or why reception studies need Kant / Charles Martindale

From à la carte to convergence : symptoms of interdisciplinarity in reception theory / Zachary Dunbar

Archiving events, performing documents : on the seductions and challenges of performance archives / Pantelis Michelakis

Bringing together nature and culture : on the uses and limits of cognitive science for the study of performance reception / Felix Budelmann

Does a Deleuzean philosophy of radical physicality lead to the 'death of tragedy'? : some thoughts on the dismissal of the climactic orientation of Greek tragedy / Freddy Decreus

Generic ambiguity in modern productions and new versions of Greek tragedy / Helene Foley

Revising 'authenticity' in staging ancient Mediterranean drama / Mary-Kay Gamel

Towards theorising the place of costume in performance reception / Rosie Wyles

Performance reception and the 'textual twist' : towards a theory of literary reception / Simon Perris

Negotiating translation for the stage / Lorna Hardwick

From translation to performance reception : the death of the author and the performance text / Eleftheria Ionnidou

Acting perspectives : the phenomenology of performance as a route to reception / Jane Montgomery Griffiths

Physical performance and the languages of translation / Stephe Harrop

'Spatial poetics' and Greek drama : scenography as reception / Paul Monaghan

Translating Greek drama for performance / Blake Morrison.

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.

Other Format:

Original

ISBN:

9781472540430

Access Restriction:

Restricted for use by site license.