Rebel Women : Staging Ancient Greek Drama Today.
- 1st ed.
- 1 online resource (307 pages)
- Plays and Playwrights Series .
- Plays and Playwrights Series .
Cover -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- List of Illustrations -- Foreword -- 'Laudes Mariannae MMV', George Huxley -- Introduction -- International Adaptations -- 1. Iphigenia and Her Mother at Aulis: A Study in the Revival of a Euripidean Classic -- 2. Resonances of Religion in Cacoyannis' Euripides -- 3. Medea between the Wars: The Politics of Race and Empire -- 4. Lysistrata Joins the Soviet Revolution: Aristophanes as Engaged Theatre -- Irish Versions -- 5. Greek Myth, Irish Reality: Marina Carr's By the Bog of Cats. . . -- 6. Irish Medeas: Revenge or Redemption (an Irish Solution to an International Problem) -- 7. Kennelly's Rebel Women -- 8. 'Me' as in 'Metre': On Translating Antigone -- Rebel Women in Ancient Drama -- 9. Female Solidarity: Timely Resistance in Greek Tragedy -- 10. Outside Looking in: Subversive Choruses in Greek Tragedy -- 11. The Violence of Clytemnestra -- 12. An Archetypal Bluestocking: Melanippe the Wise -- Appendix: Scene from a new play about Hildegard of Bingen -- Marianne McDonald: A Bio-bibliography -- List of Contributors -- Select Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
Presents essays by leading writers and academics examining the stagingof Greek drama. This book presents a collection of twelve essays byleading academics, writers and theatre practitioners examining therepresentation of ancient Greek heroines in their original contexts.
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Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Presentation, Modern. Greek drama (Tragedy) -- Women. Characters in literature -- Women.