Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance - Hellenism As Theatricality

Examines the centrality of Greek tragedy for modernist performance This book explores how encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in modernist experiments in performance. It analyses the experiments of Isadora Duncan, Edward Gordon Craig, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, H. D., and Bertolt Brecht in creating a modernist aesthetic in performing, dancing, translating, and designing Greek tragedies, sometimes for the stage and sometimes for the page. The book proposes a modernist aesthetic of Greek tragedy based on Hellenism as theatricality that radically revises the philosophical discourses of tragedy. Olga Taxidou is Professor of Drama and Performance Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

About the author

Olga Taxidou is Professor Emerita of Drama and Performance Studies at the University of Edinburgh, and Visiting Professor at New York University. She is the author of The Mask: a Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig (1998, 2001), Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning (2004), Modernism and Performance: Jarry to Brecht (2007) and Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance: Hellenism as Theatricality (2021). She is co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (1998), Post-War Cinema and Modernity: a Film Reader (2000) and The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism (2018).

Product details

• Authors: Olga Taxidou, Taxidou Olga
• Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2023
• EAN: 9781399511094
• ISBN: 978-1-399-51109-4
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance; Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performan
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies