Brill's companion to the reception of Aeschylus / / edited by Rebecca Futo Kennedy.

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus’ tragedies have been discussed, parodied, translated, revisioned, adapted, and integrated into other works over the course of the last 2500 years. Immensely popular while alive, Aeschylus’ reception begins in his own...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Superior document:Brill's Companions to Classical Reception, Volume 11
TeilnehmendeR:
Place / Publishing House:Leiden, Netherlands ;, Boston, [Massachusetts] : : Brill,, 2018.
©2018
Year of Publication:2018
Language:English
Series:Brill's companions to classical reception ; Volume 11.
Physical Description:1 online resource (634 pages) :; illustrations.
Tags: Add Tag
No Tags, Be the first to tag this record!
Description
Other title:Preliminary Material --
Introduction: The Reception of Aeschylus /
The Reception of Aeschylus in Sicily /
The Comedians’ Aeschylus /
Aristotle’s Reception of Aeschylus: Reserved Without Malice /
Aeschylus in the Hellenistic Period /
Aeschylus in the Roman Empire /
Aeschylus in Byzantium /
Aeschylus and Opera /
Aeschylus in Germany /
Inglorious Barbarians: Court Intrigue and Military Disaster Strike Xerxes, “The Sick Man of Europe” /
Transtextual Transformations of Prometheus Bound in Percy Bysshe Shelley’s Prometheus Unbound: Prometheus’ Gifts to Humankind /
Aeschylus and Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley /
An Aeschylean Waterloo: Responding to War from the Oresteia to Vanity Fair /
Form and Money in Wagner’s Ring and Aeschylean Tragedy /
Eumenides and Newmenides: Academic Furies in Edwardian Cambridge /
The Broadhead Hypothesis: Did Aeschylus Perform Word Repetition in Persians? /
Persians On French Television: An Opera-Oratorio Echoing the Algerian War /
Aeschylus’ Oresteia on British Television /
Orestes On Trial in Africa: Pasolini’s Appunti per un’ Orestiade Africana and Sissako’s Bamako /
Reception of the Plays of Aeschylus in South Africa /
In Search of Prometheus: Aeschylean Wanderings in Latin America /
Avatars of Aeschylus: O’Neill to Herzog/Golder /
The Overlooked οἰκονομία of Aeschylus’ Agamemnon and Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining /
“Now Harkonnen Shall Kill Harkonnen”: Aeschylus, Dynastic Violence, and Twofold Tragedies in Frank Herbert’s Dune /
“Save Our City”: The Curious Absence of Aeschylus in Modern Political Thought /
Political Theory in Aeschylean Drama: Ancient Themes and their Contemporary Reception /
Index.
Summary:Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus’ tragedies have been discussed, parodied, translated, revisioned, adapted, and integrated into other works over the course of the last 2500 years. Immensely popular while alive, Aeschylus’ reception begins in his own lifetime. And, while he has not been the most reproduced of the three Attic tragedians on the stage since then, his receptions have transcended genre and crossed to nearly every continent. While still engaging with Aeschylus’ theatrical reception, the volume also explores Aeschylus off the stage--in radio, the classroom, television, political theory, philosophy, science fiction and beyond.
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.
ISBN:9004348824
ISSN:2213-1426 ;
Hierarchical level:Monograph
Statement of Responsibility: edited by Rebecca Futo Kennedy.