Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This book is the first to address the fundamental question, why has there been so much Greek tragedy in the theatres, opera houses, and cinemas of the last three decades? A detailed chrological appendix of production information and lavish illustrations supplement the fourteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the worlds of classics, theatre studies, and the professional theatre. They relate the recent appeal of Greek tragedy to social trends, political developments, aesthetic and performative developments, and the intellectual currents of the last three decades, especially multiculturalism, post-colonialism, feminism, post-structuralism, revisions of psychoanalytical models, and secularization.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Oxford University Press
ISBN-10
0199281319
ISBN-13
9780199281312
eBay Product ID (ePID)
96750373
Product Key Features
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Literary Criticism
Dimensions
Weight
719g
Height
217mm
Width
138mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
Oxford
Spine
26mm
Edited by
Fiona M. Macintosh, Edith Hall, Amanda Wrigley
Content Note
Numerous Halftones
Author Biography
Amanda Wrigley is Researcher at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, University of Oxford.l