TY  - BOOK
AU  - Hall,Edith
AU  - Harrop,Stephe
TI  - Theorising performance: Greek drama, cultural history and critical practice 
SN  - 9780715638262
AV  - PA3238 .T44 2010
U1  - 880 
PY  - 2010///
CY  - London
PB  - Duckworth
KW  - Greek drama
KW  - Modern presentation
KW  - Congresses
KW  - History and criticism
N1  - "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; Edith Hall --; Performance as event; reception as transformation; Erika Fischer-Lichte --; Greek and Shakespearean plays in performance; their different academic receptions; David Wiles --; Cultural history and aesthetics; why Kant is no place to start reception studies; Simon Goldhill --; Performance, reception, aesthetics; or why reception studies need Kant; Charles Martindale --; From à la carte to convergence; symptoms of interdisciplinarity in reception theory; Zachary Dunbar --; Archiving events, performing documents; on the seductions and challenges of performance archives; Pantelis Michelakis --; Bringing together nature and culture; on the uses and limits of cognitive science for the study of performance reception; Felix Budelmann --; 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; Freddy Decreus --; Generic ambiguity in modern productions and new versions of Greek tragedy; Helene Foley --; Revising 'authenticity' in staging ancient Mediterranean drama; Mary-Kay Gamel --; Towards theorising the place of costume in performance reception; Rosie Wyles --; Performance reception and the 'textual twist'; towards a theory of literary reception; Simon Perris --; Negotiating translation for the stage; Lorna Hardwick --; From translation to performance reception; the death of the author and the performance text; Eleftheria Ionnidou --; Acting perspectives; the phenomenology of performance as a route to reception; Jane Montgomery Griffiths --; Physical performance and the languages of translation; Stephe Harrop --; 'Spatial poetics' and Greek drama; scenography as reception; Paul Monaghan --; Translating Greek drama for performance; Blake Morrison
N2  - This collection provides an analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective
ER  -