Greek tragedy and modernist performance : Hellenism as theatricality / / Olga Taxidou [[electronic resource]]
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| Autore: |
Taxidou Olga
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| Titolo: |
Greek tragedy and modernist performance : Hellenism as theatricality / / Olga Taxidou [[electronic resource]]
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| Pubblicazione: | Edinburgh : , : Edinburgh University Press, , 2021 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource |
| Disciplina: | 792.0904 |
| Soggetto topico: | Drama - 20th century - History and criticism |
| Drama - 20th century - Classical influences | |
| Drama - 20th century - Greek influences | |
| Modernism (Literature) | |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Greek tragedy and modernist performance |
| ISBN: | 1-4744-1558-X |
| 1-3995-0184-4 | |
| 1-4744-1557-1 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910737383603321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.
Edinburgh scholarship online.