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Record Nr.

UNISA996552371903316

Autore

Taxidou Olga

Titolo

Greek tragedy and modernist performance : Hellenism as theatricality / / Olga Taxidou [[electronic resource]]

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2021

ISBN

1-4744-1558-X

1-3995-0184-4

1-4744-1557-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource

Collana

Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance

Edinburgh scholarship online

Disciplina

792.0904

Soggetti

Drama - 20th century - History and criticism

Drama - 20th century - Classical influences

Drama - 20th century - Greek influences

Modernism (Literature)

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Also issued in print: 2021.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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

Sommario/riassunto

Examining the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance, this book revises both our understanding of Greek tragedy and of modernism itself.