 |
|
|
Item Details
| Title:
|
REBEL WOMEN
STAGING ANCIENT GREEK DRAMA TODAY |
| By: |
Stephen Wilmer (Editor), John Dillon (Editor) |
| Format: |
Hardback |
| List price:
|
£50.00 |
|
We currently do not stock this item, please contact the publisher directly for
further information.
|
|
|
|
|
|
| ISBN 10: |
041377550X |
| ISBN 13: |
9780413775504 |
| Publisher: |
BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC |
| Pub. date: |
15 September, 2005 |
| Series: |
Plays and Playwrights |
| Pages: |
290 |
| Description: |
Presents essays by leading writers and academics examining the staging of Greek drama. This book presents a collection of twelve essays by leading academics, writers and theatre practitioners examining the representation of ancient Greek heroines in their original contexts. |
| Synopsis: |
A collection of essays by many distinguished contributors, focused on the portrayal of rebel women in ancient Greek drama Ancient Greek drama provides the modern stage with a host of powerful female characters who stand in opposition to the patriarchal structures that seek to limit and define them. For contemporary theatre directors their representation serves as a vehicle for examining and illuminating issues of gender, power, family and morality, as germane today as when the plays were first written. Rebel Women brings together essays by leading writers from across different disciplines examining the representation of ancient Greek heroines in their original contexts and on today's stage. Divided into three sections, it considers in turn international productions, Irish versions, and studies of the original texts. The articles explore how such characters as Iphigenia, Medea, Antigone and Clytemnestra have been portrayed in recent times and the challenges and provocation they offer to both contemporary audiences and dramatists alike.'Seamus Heaney and Athol Fugard are brought together as contributors by the inspiration that ancient Greek tragedy has offered to them both.There are offerings here on Iphigenia, Medea, Antigone, Clytemnestra, film, drama, Greece, Russia ...and especially Ireland. Amidst all this variety, the level of interest and of scholarship are consistently high.' Oliver Taplin, Professor of Classical Languages and Literature, Oxford University |
| Illustrations: |
Illustrations, port. |
| Publication: |
UK |
| Imprint: |
Methuen Drama |
| Returns: |
Returnable |
|
|
|
 |
|
|
|
|
|
No Cheese, Please!
A fun picture book for children with food allergies - full of friendship and super-cute characters!Little Mo the mouse is having a birthday party.
|
My Brother Is a Superhero
Luke is massively annoyed about this, but when Zack is kidnapped by his arch-nemesis, Luke and his friends have only five days to find him and save the world...
|
|
|
|
|