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Mapping Medea : revolutions and transfers 1750-1800 / edited by Anna Albrektson and Fiona Macintosh.
- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- European drama--18th century--History and criticism.
- European drama.
- Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character).
- Medea.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (248 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Summary:
- This insightful and varied collection of essays uses rare material from archives across Europe to examine the many stage versions of Medea throughout the late-eighteenth century.
- Contents:
- Intro
- Halftitle page
- Frontispiece
- Title page
- Copyright page
- Acknowledgements
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- List of Contributors
- 1. Mapping Medea: Revolutions and Transfers 1750-1800
- Medea at the Hands of Colonial Europe
- The Medea Moment
- The Mapping of Medea
- Part I. Medea in an Expanding Eighteenth-Century World
- 2. Pushing the Boundaries of Operatic Convention and European Identity: Generic and Historical Perspectives on Georg Benda's 1775 Medea
- Tragedy to Melodrama
- Melodrama Burlesqued
- Melodrama in Russia
- 3. Medea's Russian Images on Stage and in Literature: The Politics and Poetics of Female Characters
- Introducing Medea
- Russian Wise Maidens
- Love-struck Medea
- Medea and the Mythology of Power
- Medea in Melodrama and Ballet
- Longepierre's Tragedy
- The Female Century
- Conclusions
- 4. An Imperial Medea: Spain, Portugal, the Colonies
- Early Modern Spanish Medeas
- Between Portugal and Brazil
- Medea in Opera and Popular Musical Entertainments
- Classicizing Medea
- Conclusion
- 5. Inverting the Barbarian: Estrangement and Excess in the Eighteenth-Century Medea
- European Identity Formation and the Barbarian
- Ethics, Ethnicity, and Sensibility
- Barbaric Exchanges in the 1770s and 1780s
- Ethics and the Barbaric Tyrant of the 1770s and 1780s
- The Barbaric Oath in the 1770s and 1780s
- Ostracizing the Barbarian in the 1790s
- Part II. Local Interpretations and Global Issues: Ontology and Form
- 6. From Hearth to Hades: Breaking Boundaries with Medea and ballet d'action
- Pierre Corneille and the 'Narrowing' of Theatrical Spaces
- Marc-Antoine Charpentier/Thomas Corneille's Médée (1693)
- Noverre, Garrick, and the Shakespearean Sublime
- Noverre's Médée et Jason.
- 7. Shaping Complexity: Medea in the German-Language Theatre of the Eighteenth Century
- The Changing Face of Medea
- German Musical Theatre around 1700: Bressand and Corneille
- Lessing's Marwood and Medea
- Medea and the Aesthetics of Empfindsamkeit: Lessing and Noverre
- A New Genre: Medea Melodrama
- Klinger's Figure of Power
- 8. Visual Narrative: The Role of Costumes in Noverre's ballet d'action, Médée et Jason
- Drama without Words
- Between Convention and Reform
- Collaborating on Médée et Jason
- 9. Medea as Infanticidal Mother in the Late Eighteenth-Century Theatre
- The Playwrights' Inventiveness
- Violence that Eludes Censorship
- Afterthoughts
- 10. Medea-Sorceress or Woman? c. 1750 and Beyond
- Euripides' Demi-Goddess Medea
- From the Demonic to the Aristocratic Medea
- Friedrich Maximilan Klinger's Medea in Korinth
- The Human Medea of the New Century
- Epilogue
- Bibliography
- Index.
- Notes:
- Also issued in print: 2023.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on online resource and publisher information; title from PDF title page (viewed on August 15, 2023).
- Other Format:
- Print version: Albrektson, Anna Mapping Medea
- ISBN:
- 0-19-198010-2
- 0-19-288429-8
- 0-19-288430-1
- OCLC:
- 1393657228
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