Cargando…

Rebel Women : Staging Ancient Greek Drama Today.

A collection of essays by many distinguished contributors, focused on the portrayal of rebel women in ancient Greek drama. Ancient Greek drama provides the modern stage with a host of powerful female characters who stand in opposition to the patriarchal structures that seek to limit and define them....

Descripción completa

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Wilmer, Stephen
Otros Autores: Dillon, John
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: London : Bloomsbury Publishing, 2014.
Colección:Plays and Playwrights.
Temas:
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; List of Illustrations; Foreword; 'Laudes Mariannae MMV', George Huxley; Introduction; International Adaptations; 1. Iphigenia and Her Mother at Aulis: A Study in the Revival of a Euripidean Classic; 2. Resonances of Religion in Cacoyannis' Euripides; 3. Medea between the Wars: The Politics of Race and Empire; 4. Lysistrata Joins the Soviet Revolution: Aristophanes as Engaged Theatre; Irish Versions; 5. Greek Myth, Irish Reality: Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats. . .; 6. Irish Medeas: Revenge or Redemption (an Irish Solution to an International Problem).
  • 7. Kennelly's Rebel Women8. 'Me' as in 'Metre': On Translating Antigone; Rebel Women in Ancient Drama; 9. Female Solidarity: Timely Resistance in Greek Tragedy; 10. Outside Looking in: Subversive Choruses in Greek Tragedy; 11. The Violence of Clytemnestra; 12. An Archetypal Bluestocking: Melanippe the Wise; Appendix: Scene from a new play about Hildegard of Bingen; Marianne McDonald: A Bio-bibliography; List of Contributors; Select Bibliography; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Y; Z.