02676nam 2200601 450 991073738360332120220122195731.01-4744-1558-X1-3995-0184-41-4744-1557-110.1515/9781474415576(CKB)4100000011930311(MiAaPQ)EBC6627625(Au-PeEL)EBL6627625(OCoLC)1252424650(StDuBDS)EDZ0002658519(DE-B1597)619475(DE-B1597)9781474415576(EXLCZ)99410000001193031120201202d2021 fy| 0engurcnu||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierGreek tragedy and modernist performance Hellenism as theatricality /Olga Taxidou[electronic resource]Edinburgh :Edinburgh University Press,2021.1 online resourceEdinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performanceEdinburgh scholarship onlineAlso issued in print: 2021.1-4744-1556-3 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- INDEXExamining 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.Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.Edinburgh scholarship online.Drama20th centuryHistory and criticismDrama20th centuryClassical influencesDrama20th centuryGreek influencesModernism (Literature)DramaHistory and criticism.DramaClassical influences.DramaGreek influences.Modernism (Literature)792.0904Taxidou Olga690891StDuBDSStDuBDSBOOK9910737383603321Greek tragedy and modernist performance3552741UNINA