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From spoken word to ballet, ancient Greek and Roman epics regularly provide both the subjects and the form for emergent and seasoned theatre makers. This volume examines the 'why' of this epic turn, exploring not only the translation and scholarly histories of the epics, but also earlier performance traditions and recent theoretical debates.
List of contents
- Frontmatter
- List of Illustrations
- 1: Performing Epic Now
- 2: Telling Tales on Stage
- 3: Telling Tales with Words
- 4: Telling Tales with the Body
- 5: Telling Tales with Machines
- 6: Telling Other Tales
- 7: Afterword
- Endmatter
- Bibliography
- Index
About the author
Fiona Macintosh is Professor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), and Fellow of St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford. She is the author of Dying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama (Cork University Press, 1994), Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre, 1660-1914 (with Edith Hall; OUP, 2005), and Sophocles: Oedipus Tyrannus (CUP, 2009), and has also edited numerous APGRD volumes, including most recently The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas (with Kathryn Bosher, Justine McConnell, and Patrice Rankine; OUP, 2015), Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (with Justine McConnell, Stephen Harrison, and Claire Kenward; OUP, 2018), and Seamus Heaney and the Classics: Bann Valley Muses (with Stephen Harrison and Helen Eastman; OUP, 2019).
Justine McConnell is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London. She is the author of Black Odysseys: The Homeric Odyssey in the African Diaspora since 1939 (OUP, 2013), and co-editor of four volumes: Ancient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood (with Edith Hall and Richard Alston; OUP, 2011), The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas (with Kathryn Bosher, Fiona Macintosh, and Patrice Rankine; OUP, 2015), Ancient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989 (with Edith Hall; Bloomsbury, 2016), and Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (with Fiona Macintosh, Stephen Harrison, and Claire Kenward; OUP, 2018).
Summary
From spoken word to ballet, ancient Greek and Roman epics regularly provide both the subjects and the form for emergent and seasoned theatre makers. This volume examines the 'why' of this epic turn, exploring not only the translation and scholarly histories of the epics, but also earlier performance traditions and recent theoretical debates.
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Recommended. Graduate students, researchers, faculty.
