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100 1 _aFoley, Helene P.,
_d1942-
245 1 0 _aReimagining Greek tragedy on the American stage /
_cHelene P. Foley.
264 1 _aBerkeley :
_bUniversity of California Press,
_c[2012]
300 _axv, 375 pages :
_billustrations ;
_c24 cm.
336 _atext
_2rdacontent
337 _aunmediated
_2rdamedia
338 _avolume
_2rdacarrier
490 1 _aSather classical lectures ;
_v70
504 _aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 343-361) and index.
505 0 _aGreek tragedy finds an American audience -- Setting the stage -- American theater makes Greek tragedy its own -- Making total theater in America : choreography and music -- Hellenic influences on the development of American modern dance -- American Gesamtkunste Werke -- Musical theater -- Visual choreography in Robert Wilson's Alcestis -- Democratizing Greek tragedy -- Antigone and politics in the nineteenth century : the Boston 1890 Antigone -- Performance groups in the 1960s-1970s : Brecht's Antigone by the living theatre -- The 1980s and beyond : Peter Sellars' Persians, Ajax and the Children of Heracles compared with other versions of Persians and Ajax -- Aeschylus' Prometheus bound in the U.S. : from the threat of apocalypse to communal reconciliation -- Re-envisioning the hero : American Oedipus -- Oedipus as scapegoat -- Plagues -- Theban cycles -- Deconstructing fatality -- Abandonment -- Re-imagining Medea as American other -- Setting the stage : nineteenth century Medea -- Medea as social critic from the mid-1930s-the late 1940s -- Medea as ethnic other from the 1970s-the present -- Medea's divided self : drag and cross dressed performances.
650 0 _aGreek drama
_xHistory and criticism.
650 0 _aTheater
_zUnited States
_xHistory.
830 0 _aSather classical lectures ;
_vv. 70.
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