The reception of Aeschylus' plays through shifting models and frontiers / / edited by Stratos E. Constantinidis.

• TeilnehmendeR: Constantinidis, Stratos E.
• Place / Publishing House: Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2016.
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Edition: 1st ed.
• Language: English
• Series: Metaforms 7.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (425 pages) :; illustrations.

The Reception of Aeschylus' Plays through Shifting Models and Frontiers addresses the need for an integrated approach to the study and staging of Aeschylus’ plays. It offers an invigorating discussion about the transmission and reception of his plays and explores the interrelated tasks of editi...

Table of Contents

• Preliminary Material / Stratos E. Constantinidis
• Introduction / Stratos E. Constantinidis
• Editing Aeschylus for a Modern Readership: Textual Criticism and Other Concerns / A.F. Garvie
• Aeschylus and His Afterlife in the Classical Period: “My Poetry Did Not Die with Me” / Johanna Hanink and Anna S. Uhlig
• Prometheus Bound in Translation: “The True Promethean Fire” / J. Michael Walton
• Aeschylus’ Seven against Thebes: War, Women, and the Hecht/Bacon Translation / Deborah H. Roberts
• Aeschylus in the Balance: Weighing Corpses and the Problem of Translation / Rush Rehm
• Cognitive Theory and Aeschylus: Translating beyond the Lexicon / Peter Meineck
• Aeschylus and Western Opera / Sarah Brown Ferrario
• Aeschylus’ Cassandra in the Operas of Taneyev and Gnecchi / Dana L. Munteanu
• Pop Music Adaptations of Aeschylus’ Plays: What Kind of Rock was Prometheus Fastened to? / Kevin J. Wetmore
• Aeschylus as Postdramatic Analogue: “A Thing Both Cool and Fiery” / Paul Monaghan
• Voices of Trauma: Remaking Aeschylus’ Agamemnon in the Twentieth Century / Lorna Hardwick
• The Oresteia in Kannada: The Indian Context / Vijaya Guttal
• Two Centuries, Two Oresteias, Two Remakes / Helen E. Moritz
• Bibliography / Stratos E. Constantinidis
• Index / Stratos E. Constantinidis.