A handbook to the reception of Greek drama

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Smit, Betine van Zyl, Contributor.

Smit, Betine van Zyl, Editor.

Series:

Wiley Blackwell handbooks to classical reception.

Wiley-Blackwell handbooks to classical reception series A handbook to the reception of Greek drama.

THEi Wiley ebooks.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Greek drama--Appreciation.

Greek drama.

Greek drama--History and criticism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (622 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] John Wiley & Sons Inc 2016

Language Note:

English

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Summary:

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day. Represents the first volume to offer a complete overview of the reception of ancient drama from antiquity to the present Covers the translation, transmission, performance, production, and adaptation of Greek tragedy from the time the plays were first created in ancient Athens through the 21st century Features overviews of the history of the reception of Greek drama in most countries of the world Includes chapters covering the reception of Greek drama in modern opera and film

Contents:

Intro

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Foreword

List of Illustrations

Notes on Contributors

Note on Nomenclature and Spelling

Introduction

The Structure of the Book

References

Part I The Ancient World

Chapter 1 The Reception of Greek Tragedy from 500 to 323 BC

Aristophanes' Frogs

Lycurgus' Against Leocrates

Vase Paintings

Aristotle's Poetics

Notes

Guide to Further Reading

Chapter 2 Greek Comedy and its Reception, c. 500-323 BC

Note

Chapter 3 Greek Drama in the Hellenistic World

Modern Scholarship and Ancient Sources

From Athens to Alexandria: Compiling, Analyzing, and Responding to Greek Drama

Reception of Greek Drama in Early Hellenistic Literature

Conclusion

Chapter 4 Greek Comedy at Rome

Fabula Palliata

Plautus and Terence

Audiences

Fabula Togata, and the Decline of the Palliata

Later Developments

Chapter 5 Roman Tragedy

Introduction: "Translation" or "Reception"?

Republican Tragedy: The First Generations

Late Republican and Augustan Tragedy

Early Imperial Tragedy

Fabulae Praetextae

Conclusion: Roman Tragedy A Remake of the Greek?

Part II Transition

Chapter 6 Ancient Drama in the Medieval World

The Dwindling of Classical Drama before the Middle Ages

The Anxiety of Influence: Pagan Theater and the Fledgling Christian Church

Usable Pasts: Ancient Drama in Byzantium and the Medieval West, 500-1000

The Rebirth of Tragedy and Comedy, 1000-1350

The Invention of "the Dark Ages" and the Medieval Legacy of Greek Drama

References.

Part III The Renewal of Ancient Drama

Chapter 7 The Reception of Ancient Drama in Renaissance Italy

The "Rediscovery" of the Classics in Italy

The Theoretical Debate

The Content of Renaissance Neoclassical Tragedy

Ancient Tragic Themes in the Renaissance World

The Content of Neoclassical Comedy

Commedia Erudita: from Translations and Adaptations to Original Plays

Chapter 8 Ancient Drama in the French Renaissance and up to Louis XIV

Chapter 9 The Reception of Greek Drama in Early Modern England

"Invisible" Hecubas: A Case Study in Early Modern Reception

Epilog

Part IV The Modern and Contemporary World

Chapter 10 Greece: A History of Turns, Traditions, and Transformations

In the Name of Revolution and the Nation

The Romanticist Turn and the (Re)Turn to Classicizing

The Modernist Turn and Its Backlash

The Democratic Turn: Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands

The Performative Turn: New Greek Theater under the Military Dictatorship

The Post-1974 Reperformative Turn and Stage Dialectics

The Postmodernist Turn

Drama in a Downturn

Chapter 11 The History of Ancient Drama in Modern Italy

The Classical Heritage

The Teatro Olimpico

Vittorio Alfieri

The Early Twentieth Century

Comedy and Satire

Gassman and Pasolini

Recent Years

Chapter 12 The Reception of Greek Theater in France since 1700

1715-1789: Splendor and Misery of Neoclassical Theater

The End of the Ancien Régime

1789-1914: From Theatrical Revolutions to a Republic of Festivals

1870-1914: Greek Revival.

1914-2014: An Age of Reception

Chapter 13 Germany, Austria, and Switzerland

Pre-History and First Endeavors

The Revival of Tragedy in Prussia and Bavaria: Antigone in Potsdam (1841)

Trends in Staging Greek Tragedy after 1900

The Twenties and the NS Dictatorship

Ancient Drama in Post-War Germany until the 1960s

The Neo-Avant-garde: The Dionysian Turn

The Berlin Antikenprojekt I (1974): Research on Origins

The Berlin Antikenprojekt II (1980): A Turn against the Director's Theater?

Grüber's Prometheus as the Third Act

Post-Dramatic Theater

Mythical Popularization in Zürich

The Latest Antikenprojekt in Berlin (2006)

Chapter 14 The Reception of Greek Drama in Belgium and the Netherlands

The Eighteenth Century and Earlier

The Nineteenth Century

From the Turn of the Century to World War II

The Postwar Period

Postdramatic Theater

Chapter 15 The Reception of Greek Drama in England from the Seventeenth to the Twenty-First Century

Early Years

Prussian Influence Comes to the London Stage

Modern English Poets and Greek Drama

Two Approaches to Oedipus

Features of Classical Drama in Contemporary England

Actors of Dionysus

Chapter 16 Conquering England: Ireland and Greek Tragedy

Greeks and Irish Cultural Nationalism

Shaping Form

Shaping Content

Chapter 17 The Reception of Greek Drama in the Czech Republic

Early History or Pre-History?.

The First Stage of the Production of Ancient Plays: The Time of Discoveries

The Second Stage of the Production of Ancient Plays: The Substitution Role of Ancient Drama

The Third Stage of the Productions of Ancient Plays: We Return to the Free World

A Synthesis of Current Scholarship and Scholarly Debates

Chapter 18 Antigone, Medea, and Civilization and Barbarism in Spanish American History

The Head in the Cage (an Adaptation of Antigone)

The Limit (an Adaptation of Antigone)

Antígona Vélez

The Frontier (an Adaptation of Medea)

Chapter 19 Greek Drama in the Arab World

The Rise of Arab Theater

Greek Drama in the Arab World before the 1920s

Greek Drama in the Arab World from the 1920s to the 1950s

Greek Drama in the Arab World from the 1950s to the Present

The Reception of the Ichneutai in the Modern Arab World

Chapter 20 The Reception of Greek Tragedy in Japan

Chapter 21 Greek Drama in North America

Medea and Jason, Haymarket Theatre, Boston, 1798

The Bowery, Oedipus, New York, 1834

George Vandenhoff's Antigone, New York and Boston, 1845

The Penn, Acharnians, Philadelphia, 1886

Margaret Anglin's Antigone, Berkeley, 1910

Guthrie's Oedipus Rex, Stratford, Ontario, 1954

Schechner's Dionysus in '69, New York, 1968

Will Power's The Seven, New York, 2006

Chapter 22 Greek Drama in Australia

Medea: the Greatest Actress of the Century

Tentative Beginnings, 1886-1915

The Anthroposophical 1930s

The 1940s-1955

1955

1956-1966

Enter The New Wave: Reception 1967-1989

1990-2014

1990s Physical Theater

Conclusion.

Notes

Chapter 23 The Reception of Greek Drama in Africa:: "A Tradition That Intends to Be Established"

Histories and Traditions

Poetics and Politics

Critical Reactions

Chapter 24 Greek Drama in Opera

From the Invention of Opera to the 1760s

Christoph Ritter von Gluck and Iphigénie en Tauride

Cherubini's Médée

Wagner and Aeschylus

Sergey Taneyev: Oresteia

Elektra by Hugo von Hofmannsthal and Richard Strauss

The First Half of the Twentieth Century

The Bassarids

1966-2013

Comedy

Guide to Recommended Viewing/Listeningand Further Reading

Chapter 25 Filmed Tragedy

Essences: Tragic/Cinematic

Realism/Anti-Realism: Cacoyannis/Pasolini

Pier Paolo Pasolini (Oedipus Rex, 1967

Medea, 1970)

Different Sorts of Realist/Anti-Realist Treatments

Films of Theatrical Performances

Films with an Oblique Relation to Ancient Tragedy

The Cannibals (Liliana Cavani, 1970)

Index

EULA.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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ISBN:

1-78785-107-9

1-118-34780-3

OCLC:

932110064