Hercules Performed / / edited by Emma Stafford.
Hercules Performed explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – on the western stage from the sixteenth century to the present day, focusing on live theatre, including tragedy, comedy and musical drama. Each chapter considers a particular work or theme in detail,...
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| Superior document: | Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Leiden ;, Boston : : Brill,, 2024. ©2024 |
| Year of Publication: | 2024 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Classical Studies E-Books Online, Collection 2024.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (418 pages) |
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Table of Contents:
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- List of Figures and Table
- Notes on Contributors
- Introduction: Embodying the Hero and His Story
- Emma Stafford
- Part 1: Labours
- 1 Sandow the Modern Hercules: or the Twelve Labours of the Class-Conscious Historian of British Classics
- Henry Stead
- 2 Hercules and the Tragicomic in the Epic Theatre of Dürrenmatt
- Deborah Chatr Aryamontri
- 3 ‘Breaking News: Hercules Is the Son of Zeus’: the Chorus in Helen Eastman’s Hercules
- Sofia Frade
- 4 ‘The Moral Madness of the Modern Herakles’: Collage and Fragments in Tony Harrison’s The Labourers of Herakles and the Harrison Archive
- Owen Hodkinson
- Part 2: Madness
- 5 The Madness of Hercules from Euripides to the Renaissance
- Neil W. Bernstein
- 6 Herakles, Medea and the Reality of Filicide
- Sue Hamstead
- 7 Herakles in Orbit: the Role of Space in Modern Versions of Euripides’ Herakles
- Samuel D. Gartland
- Part 3: Death and Apotheosis
- 8 The Death and Apotheosis of Hercules at the Comédie-Italienne: from Senecan Tragedy to Commedia dell’Arte
- Lucia Degiovanni
- 9 The Sweet Vitality of Dancing Bodies: Classical Embodiment, Modernist Poetics, and Fascist Visions in Sophocles’ Trachiniae at Syracuse in 1933
- Eleftheria Ioannidou
- 10 Herakles, Sex, Death, and Spin: Sophocles’ Women of Trachis and Its Adaptations
- Eleanor OKell
- 11 Directing The Wife of Heracles (2010) for a Contemporary Audience: Footballers, Hairdressers and Dispensing the Poison
- George Rodosthenous
- Part 4: Setting Hercules to Music
- 12 Hercules and Opera at the Court of Louis XIV: Ercole amante
- Jon Solomon
- 13 Shattered Female Virtue: Dejanira as Depicted in Handel’s Hercules
- Robyn M. Rocklein
- 14 ‘I Shall Sing of Herakles’: Writing a Hercules Oratorio for the Twenty-First Century
- Emma Stafford and Tim Benjamin
- 15 Herakles in Twenty-First Century Music
- Adriana F. Nogueira
- Epilogue
- Emma Stafford
- Index.