Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance Hellenism As Theatricality.

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This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance.

Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Taxidou, Olga
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Edinburgh : Edinburgh University Press, 2021.
Series:Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance Ser.
Subjects:
1900-1999
Theater > History > 20th century.
Drama > History and criticism.
Greek drama (Tragedy)
Modernism (Literature)
Théâtre > Histoire > 20e siècle.
Théâtre (Genre littéraire) > Histoire et critique.
Tragédie grecque.
Modernisme (Littérature)
Drama
Theater
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
  • ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
  • 1 INTRODUCTION: 'WHAT'S HECUBA TO HIM, OR HE TO HECUBA?'
  • 2 ISADORA DUNCAN, EDWARD GORDON CRAIG AND THE DREAM OF AN IMPOSSIBLE THEATRE
  • 3 POETIC DRAMA: THEATRICALITY, PERFORMABILITY AND TRANSLATION
  • 4 H.D.: FEET, HANDS AND HIEROGLYPHS
  • 5 EPIC, TRAGIC, DRAMATIC THEATRE AND THE BRECHTIAN PROJECT
  • 6 AFTERWORD: (NO) MORE MASTERPIECES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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