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245 10 a| Reimagining Greek tragedy on the American stageh| [electronic resource] /c| Helene P. Foley.;

260 a| Berkeley :b| University of California Press,c| [2012];

300 a| xv, 375 pages :b| illustrations ;c| 24 cm.;

490 1 a| Sather classical lectures ;v| 70;

504 a| Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-361) and index.;

505 0 a| Greek 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.;

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Reimagining Greek tragedy on the American stage / Helene P. Foley.

Author/creator	Foley, Helene P., 1942-
Format	Electronic
Publication Info	Berkeley : University of California Press, [2012]
Description	xv, 375 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm.
Supplemental Content	Full text available from Ebook Central - Academic Complete
Subjects	Greek drama--History and criticism. Theater--United States. --History.

Series	Sather classical lectures ; 70 Sather classical lectures ; v. 70. ^A23228
Contents	Greek 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.
Bibliography note	Includes bibliographical references (pages 343-361) and index.
Access restriction	Available only to authorized users.
Technical details	Mode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/form	Electronic books.
LCCN	2012000823
ISBN	9780520272446 (cloth : alkaline paper)

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