Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage First Edition by Helene Foley ISBN 978-0520272446 0520272447

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ISBN 10:  0520272447

ISBN 13:  978-0520272446

Author: Helene P. Foley

This book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley shows how plays like Oedipus Rex and Medea have resonated deeply with contemporary concerns and controversies―over war, slavery, race, the status of women, religion, identity, and immigration. Although Greek tragedy was often initially embraced for its melodramatic possibilities, by the twentieth century it became a vehicle not only for major developments in the history of American theater and dance, but also for exploring critical tensions in American cultural and political life. Drawing on a wide range of sources―archival, video, interviews, and reviews―Reimagining Greek Tragedy on the American Stage provides the most comprehensive treatment of the subject available.

Table of contents: 

1. Introduction

2. Greek Tragedy Finds an American Audience

3. Making Total Theater in America: Choreography and Music

4. Democratizing Greek Tragedy

5. Reenvisioning the Hero: American Oedipus

6. Reimagining Medea as American Other

7. Epilogue

8. Professional Productions and New Versions of Sophocles’ and Euripides’ Electras

9. Professional Productions and New Versions of Antigone

10. Professional Productions and New Versions of Aeschylus’ Persians, Sophocles’ Ajax, and Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound

11. Professional Productions and New Versions of Oedipus Tyrannus

12. Professional Productions and New Versions of Euripides’ Medea

13. Professional Productions and New Versions of Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Aulis and Iphigeneia in Tauris

14. Other Professional Productions and New Versions

15. Notes

16. References

17. Index

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