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Record Nr.

UNISA996441545803316

Autore

Fischer-Lichte Erika

Titolo

Dionysus resurrected : performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a globalizing world / / Erika Fischer-Lichte

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Chichester, West Sussex : , : Wiley Blackwell, , 2014

ISBN

1-118-60977-8

1-118-60975-1

1-118-60978-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (258 p.)

Collana

Blackwell Bristol lectures on Greece, Rome and the classical tradition

Disciplina

882.01

Soggetti

Greek drama - Modern presentation

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Dionysus Resurrected: Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Re-enter Dionysus; The Topicality of The Bacchae; Theories of Sacrificial Ritual in the 1970's; From "Text" to "Performance": A New Theatre Aesthetics; Notes; References; Further Reading; Part I: Festivals of Liberation: Celebrating Communality; Chapter 1: The Birth Ritual of a New Theatre; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 2: Celebrating a Communion Rite?; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 3: Sparagmos and Omophagia; Notes; References

Further Reading Part II: Renegotiating Cultural Identities; Chapter 4: On the Strangeness and Inaccessibility of the Past; Note; References; Further Reading; Chapter 5: Performing or Contaminating Greekness?; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 6: In Search of New Identities; Notes; References; Part III: Productive Encounter or Destructive Clash of Cultures?; Chapter 7: Dismemberment and the Quest for Wholeness; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 8: Transforming Kathakali; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 9: Beijing Opera Dismembered; Notes; References

Further Reading Epilogue; Name Index; Subject Index

Sommario/riassunto

Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960's of Euripides' The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing



these modern day performances, the author reveals striking parallels between transformational events taking place during the era of the play's revival and events within the play itself. Puts forward a lively discussion of the parallels between transformational events during the era of the play's revival and events within the play itself The first comparative study to analyse and contextualize performances of The Bacchae...

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Record Nr.

UNIORUON00008601

Titolo

Inscriptiones palaeo-persicae Achaemenidarum : quot hucusque repertae sunt ad apographa viatorum criticasque Chr. Lassenii, Th. Benfeyi, J. Oppertii nec non Fr. Spiegelii editiones / archetyporum typis primus edidit et explicavit commentarios criticos adjecit glossariumque comparativum Palaeo-Persicum subjunxit Cajetanus Kossowicz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Petropoli, : Caesareae Universitatis impensa, 1872

Descrizione fisica

1 v. (paginazione varia) ; 27 cm.

Classificazione

IR XX A

Soggetti

EPIGRAFIA IRANICA - PERIODO ACHEMENIDE

Lingua anticopersiana - Iscrizioni

Lingua di pubblicazione

Molteplice

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia