The Oxford handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas

Parallelsachtitel: Greek Drama in the Americas
Weitere Verfasser: Bosher, Kathryn, 1974-2013 , [HerausgeberIn]
Macintosh, Fiona, 1959- , [HerausgeberIn]
McConnell, Justine, , [HerausgeberIn]
Rankine, Patrice D., , [HerausgeberIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Oxford, United Kingdom : Oxford University Press, 2015.
Ausgabe: First edition.
Umfang/Format: xli, 880 pages : illustrations.
Schriftenreihe: Oxford handbooks
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Online Zugang: Available online Oxford Handbooks Online
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Inhaltsangabe:
  • Theories and methods.
  • Introduction /
  • Fiona Macintosh, Justice McConnell, and Patrice Rankine
  • An archival interrogation /
  • Susan Curtis
  • New worlds, old dreams?: postcolonial theory and reception of Greek drama /
  • Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson
  • Shaping American theater (1800-1900).
  • Grecian theater in Philadelphia, 1800-1870 /
  • Lee T. Pearcy
  • Thebes in the New World: revisiting the New York Antigone of 1845 /
  • Fiona Macintosh
  • Julia Ward Howe's Hippolytus /
  • Helene P. Foley
  • Professional tragedy: the case of Medea in Chicago, 1867 /
  • Kathryn Bosher and Jordana Cox
  • Barbarian queens: race, violence, and antiquity on the nineteenth-century United States stage /
  • Robert Davis
  • When Greeks stand you up, invite Romans: the ancient world on the nineteenth-century American stage /
  • David Mayer
  • Modernisms in the Americas (1900-1930).
  • The migrant muse: Greek drama as feminist window on American identity, 1900-1925 /
  • Edith Hall
  • Iphigenia amongst the Ivies, 1915 /
  • Niall W. Slater
  • Treading the arduous road to Eleusis, nationalism, and feminism in early post-World War I Canada: Roy Mitchell's 1920 The Trojan women /
  • Moira Day
  • Greek tragedy and modern dance: an alternative archaeology? /
  • Artemis Leontis
  • Eugene O'Neill's quest for Greek tragedy /
  • Vassilis Lambropoulos
  • The living pasts (1925-1970).
  • Choreographing the classics, performing sexual dissidence /
  • Susan Manning
  • Greek tragedy in Mexico /
  • Francisco Barrenechea
  • Moving and dramatic Athenian citizenship: Edith Hamilton's Americanization of Greek tragedy /
  • Judith P. Hallett
  • A new stage of laughter for Zora Neale Hurston and Theodore Browne: Lysistrata and the Negro Units of the Federal Theatre Project /
  • Lena M. Hill
  • Aristophanic comedy in American musical theater, 1925-1969 /
  • John Given
  • Cubanizing Greek drama: José Triana's Medea in the mirror (1960) /
  • Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos
  • Creative collisions (1948-1968).
  • Revolutionizing Greek tragedy in Cuba: Virgilio Piñera's Electra Garrigó /
  • Rosa Andújar
  • A Brazilian echo of Antigone's "Collision": tragedy, clean and filthy /
  • Paul B. Dixon
  • The darkening of Medea: geographies of race, (dis)placement, and identity in Agostinho Olavo's Além do Rio (Medea) /
  • José de Paiva Dos Santos
  • The frontiers of David Cureses' La frontera /
  • Aníbal A. Biglieri
  • Brothers at war: Aeschylus in Cuba, 1968 and 2007 /
  • Isabelle Torrance
  • The search for the omni-Americans (1970s-2013).
  • Metaphor and modernity: American themes in Herakles and Dionysus in 69 /
  • Thomas E. Jenkins
  • Lee Breuer's new American classicism: The gospel at Colonus' "integration statement" /
  • Justine McConnell
  • Greek tragedy, enslaving or liberating?: the example of Rita Dove's The darker face of the Earth /
  • Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz
  • The power of Medea's sisterhood: democracy on the margins in Cherríe Moraga's The hungry woman: a Mexican Medea /
  • Katie Billotte
  • August Wilson and Greek drama: blackface minstrelsy, "spectacle" from Aristotle's Poetics, and Radio golf /
  • Patrice Rankine
  • "Aeschylus got flow!": Afrosporic Greek tragedy and Will Power's The seven /
  • Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
  • Making women visible: multiple Antigones on the Colombian twenty-first-century stage /
  • Moira Fradinger
  • Democratic appropriations: Lysistrata and political activism /
  • Dorota Dutsch
  • Reclaiming Euripides in Harlem /
  • Melinda Powers
  • Oedipus Tyrannus in South America /
  • María Florencia Nelli
  • Greek drama on the U.S. west coast, 1970-2013 /
  • Mary-Kay Gamel
  • Performing for soldiers: twenty-first-century experiments in Greek theater in the U.S.A. /
  • Laura Lodewyck and S. Sara Monoson
  • Greek drama in Canada: women's voices and minority views /
  • Hallie Rebecca Marshall
  • Practitioner perspectives.
  • On remixing the classics and directing Countee Cullen's Medea and Law Chavez's Señora de la pinta: an interview with theater director Daniel Banks /
  • Patrice Rankine and Daniel Banks
  • This bird that never settles: a virtual conversation with Anne Carson about Greek tragedy /
  • Yopie Prins
  • Medea in Brazil: interview with director Heron Coelho /
  • Cesar Gemelli
  • An interview with Héctor Levy-Daniel / María Florencia Nelli
  • Charles Mee's "(re)making" of Greek drama /
  • Erin B. Mee
  • An interview with Carey Perloff /
  • Margaret Williamson
  • Eclectic encounters: staging Greek tragedy in America, 1973-2009 /
  • Rush Rehm
  • The shock of recognition: Nicholas Rudall's translation of Greek drama for the Chicago stage at Court Theatre /
  • Justine McConnell and Patrice Rankine
  • In conversation with Peter Sellars: what does Greek tragedy mean to you? /
  • Avery Willis Hoffman
  • The Women and War Project /
  • Peggy Shannon
  • Dionysus in 69 in 2009 /
  • Shawn Sides
  • Talking Greeks with Derek Walcott /
  • Helen Eastman
  • Afterword.
  • Audiences across the pond: oceans apart or shared experiences? /
  • Lorna Hardwick.