Greek tragedy and modernist performance : : Hellenism as theatricality / / Olga Taxidou.
Examining the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance, this book revises both our understanding of Greek tragedy and of modernism itself.
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| Superior document: | Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Edinburgh : : Edinburgh University Press,, 2021. |
| Year of Publication: | 2021 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Edinburgh critical studies in modernism, drama and performance.
Edinburgh scholarship online. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource |
| Notes: | Also issued in print: 2021. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- CONTENTS
- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- 1 INTRODUCTION: ‘WHAT’S HECUBA TO HIM, OR HE TO HECUBA?’
- 2 ISADORA DUNCAN, EDWARD GORDON CRAIG AND THE DREAM OF AN IMPOSSIBLE THEATRE
- 3 POETIC DRAMA: THEATRICALITY, PERFORMABILITY AND TRANSLATION
- 4 H.D.: FEET, HANDS AND HIEROGLYPHS
- 5 EPIC, TRAGIC, DRAMATIC THEATRE AND THE BRECHTIAN PROJECT
- 6 AFTERWORD: (NO) MORE MASTERPIECES
- BIBLIOGRAPHY
- INDEX