Notre Dame London: Fischer Hall Library

Theorising performance : Greek drama, cultural history and critical practice /

Theorising performance : Greek drama, cultural history and critical practice / Theorizing performance edited by Edith Hall & Stephe Harrop. - London : Duckworth, 2010. - xiii, 305 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

"Inspired by a conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama (APGRD) in Oxford"--Page 4 of cover.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Towards a theory of performance reception / Performance as event : reception as transformation / Greek and Shakespearean plays in performance : their different academic receptions / Cultural history and aesthetics : why Kant is no place to start reception studies / Performance, reception, aesthetics : or why reception studies need Kant / From à la carte to convergence : symptoms of interdisciplinarity in reception theory / Archiving events, performing documents : on the seductions and challenges of performance archives / Bringing together nature and culture : on the uses and limits of cognitive science for the study of performance reception / Does a Deleuzean philosophy of radical physicality lead to the 'death of tragedy'? : some thoughts on the dismissal of the climactic orientation of Greek tragedy / Generic ambiguity in modern productions and new versions of Greek tragedy / Revising 'authenticity' in staging ancient Mediterranean drama / Towards theorising the place of costume in performance reception / Performance reception and the 'textual twist' : towards a theory of literary reception / Negotiating translation for the stage / From translation to performance reception : the death of the author and the performance text / Acting perspectives : the phenomenology of performance as a route to reception / Physical performance and the languages of translation / 'Spatial poetics' and Greek drama : scenography as reception / Translating Greek drama for performance / Edith Hall -- Erika Fischer-Lichte -- David Wiles -- Simon Goldhill -- Charles Martindale -- Zachary Dunbar -- Pantelis Michelakis -- Felix Budelmann -- Freddy Decreus -- Helene Foley -- Mary-Kay Gamel -- Rosie Wyles -- Simon Perris -- Lorna Hardwick -- Eleftheria Ionnidou -- Jane Montgomery Griffiths -- Stephe Harrop -- Paul Monaghan -- Blake Morrison.

This collection provides an analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective.

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Greek drama--Modern presentation--Congresses.
Greek drama--History and criticism--Congresses.

PA3238 / .T44 2010

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