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Scholarship. Theorizing the chorus in Greece / Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi ; The Greek chorus : our German eyes / Simon Goldhill ; The middle voice : German classical scholarship and the Greek tragic chorus / Constanze Guthenke ; Chorus, song, and anthropology / Ian Rutherford -- Aesthetics. Greek festival choruses in and out of context / Felix Budelmann ; Seneca's chorus of one / Helen Slaney ; 'Something like the choruses of the ancients' : the Coro stabile and the chorus in European Opera, 1589-1782 / Roger Savage ; 'An alien body'? Choral autonomy around 1800 / Joshua billings ; Brechtian chorality / Martin Revermann -- Shadows. The nostalgia of the male tragic chorus / Sheila Murnaghan ; A 'Senecan' theatre of cruelty : audience, citizens, and chorus in late-sixteenth and early seventeenth-century French dramas / Christian Biet ; Phantom chorus : missing chorality on the French eighteenth-century stage / Cecile Dudouyt ; Sunk in the 'mystic abyss' : the 'choral' orchestra in Wagner's music dramas / Laurence Dreyfus -- 'How do you solve a problem like the chorus?' Hammerstein's Allegro and the reception of the Greek chorus on Broadway / Zachary Dunbar -- Community. The politics of the mystic chorus / Richard Seaford ; Mob, cabal, or utopian commune? The political contestation of the ancient chorus, 1789-1917 / Edith Hall ; Choruses, community, and the Corps de ballet / Fiona Macintosh ; Chorus and the Vaterland : Greek tragedy and the ideology of the choral performance in inter-war Germany / Eleftheria Ioannidou ; Revivals of choric theatre as utopian visions / Erika Fischer-Lichte ; Chorus in contemporary British theatre / Helen Eastman. |
