Dionysus since 69 : Greek tragedy at the dawn of the third millennium / edited by Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh and Amanda Wrigley.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : why Greek tragedy in the late twentieth century? / Edith Hall -- Dionysus in 69 / Froma I. Zeitlin -- Bad women : gender politics in late twentieth-century performance and revision of Greek tragedy / Helene Foley -- Heracles as Dr Strangelove and GI Joe : male heroism deconstructed / Kathleen Riley -- Sophocles' Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney's, and some other recent half-rhymes / Oliver Taplin -- Aeschylus, race, class, and war in the 1990s / Edith Hall -- Greek tragedy in cinema : theatre, politics, history / vPantelis Michelakis -- Greek drama and anti-colonialism : decolonizing classics / Lorna Hardwick -- Use of masks in modern performances of Greek drama / David Wiles -- Greek notes in Samuel Beckett's theatre art / Katharine Worth -- Greek tragedy in the opera house and concert hall of the late twentieth century / Peter Brown -- Oedipus in the East End : from Freud to Berkoff / Fiona Macintosh -- Thinking about the origins of theatre in the 1970s / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Voices we hear / Timberlake Wertenbaker -- Details of production discussed / Amanda Wrigley.

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Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This book is the first to address the fundamental question, why has there been so much Greek tragedy in the theatres, opera houses and cinemas of the last three decades? A detailed chronological appendix of production information and lavish illustrations supplement the fourteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the worlds of classics, theatre studies, and the professional theatre. They relate the recent appeal of Greek tragedy to social trends, political developments, aesthetic and performative developments, and the intellectual currents of the last three decades, especially multiculturalism, post-colonialism, feminism, post-structuralism, revisions of psychoanalytical models, and secularization.

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