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Postdramatic Tragedies: Classical Presences

Autor Emma Cole
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 noi 2019
Ancient tragedy has played a well-documented role in contemporary theatre since the mid-twentieth century. In addition to the often-commented-upon watershed productions, however, is a significant but overlooked history involving classical tragedy in experimental and avant-garde theatre. Postdramatic Tragedies focuses upon such experimental reinventions and analyses receptions of Greek and Roman tragedy that come under the banner of 'postdramatic theatre', a style of performance in which the traditional components of drama, such as character and narrative, are subordinate to the immediate, affective power of more abstract elements, such as image and sound. The chapters are arranged into three parts, each of which explores classical reception within a specific strand of postdramatic theatre: text-based theatre, devised theatre, and theatre that transcends the usual boundaries of time and space, such as durational and immersive theatre. Each offers a semiotic and phenomenological analysis of a particular case study, covering both widely known and less studied productions from 1995 to 2015. Together they reveal that postdramatic theatre is related to the classics at its conceptual core, and that the study of postdramatic tragedies reveals a great deal about both the evolution of theatre in recent decades, and the status of ancient drama in modernity.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780198817680
ISBN-10: 0198817681
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: 8 black-and-white illustrations
Dimensiuni: 146 x 221 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.57 kg
Editura: OUP OXFORD
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria Classical Presences

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

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The book is engaging in its descriptions of these performances and is well-versed in the scholarship of both the postdramatic and the classical materials and their adaptations.
...the book deserves to be essential reading for those interested in the postdramatic, the tragic, and classical reception more broadly
The volume has much to recommend it both for theatre historians and for those whose focus is on the contemporary reception of ancient drama.

Notă biografică

Emma Cole is a Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Classics at the University of Bristol. She received her doctorate from UCL in 2015 and since then has published widely on the reception of Greek and Roman literature (primarily tragedy and epic) in contemporary theatre, including the co-edited collection Adapting Translation for the Stage (with Geraldine Brodie; Routledge, 2017), and chapters and articles on the work of Katie Mitchell (2015), Martin Crimp (2016), and Sarah Kane (2017). From 2019-2021 she is completing an AHRC leadership fellowship, during which she will undertake a project investigating immersivity and the classics with a focus on British theatre company Punchdrunk.