Adapting Greek tragedy : contemporary contexts for ancient texts / edited by Vayos Liapis, Avra Sidiropoulou.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Liapēs, Vaios, editor.

Sidiropoulou, Avra, 1972- editor.

Cambridge University Press.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Adaptations.

Greek drama--Modern presentation.

Greek drama.

Greek drama (Tragedy)--Adaptations.

Greek drama (Tragedy).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (x, 436 pages) : illustrations

polychrome

Place of Publication:

Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2021.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 16, 2021).

Other Format:

Print version: Adapting Greek tragedy

ISBN:

9781316659168

131665916X

Publisher Number:

40030514047

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