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  1. Reaching Athens
    community, democracy and other mythologies in adaptations of greek tragedy
  2. Reaching Athens
    community, democracy and other mythologies in adaptations of Greek tragedy
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Lang, Oxford [u.a.]

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Unter den Linden
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 3034308078; 9783034308076
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    9783034308076
    RVK Categories: AP 67200
    Series: New comparative criticism ; [1]
    Subjects: Greek drama (Tragedy); Greek drama
    Scope: xiv, 319 p, ill, 23 cm
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    Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-301) and index

  3. Reaching Athens
    community, democracy and other mythologies in adaptations of Greek tragedy
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Lang, Oxford [u.a.]

    Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin - Preußischer Kulturbesitz, Haus Potsdamer Straße
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    Source: Staatsbibliothek zu Berlin
    Language: English
    Media type: Book
    Format: Print
    ISBN: 3034308078; 9783034308076
    Other identifier:
    9783034308076
    RVK Categories: AP 67200
    Series: New comparative criticism ; [1]
    Subjects: Greek drama (Tragedy); Greek drama
    Scope: xiv, 319 p, ill, 23 cm
    Notes:

    Includes bibliographical references (p. [281]-301) and index

  4. Reaching Athens
    Community, Democracy and Other Mythologies in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy
    Published: 2013
    Publisher:  Peter Lang AG, Internationaler Verlag der Wissenschaften, Oxford

    Why do revivals and adaptations of Greek tragedy still abound in European national theatres, fringe stages and international festivals in the twenty-first century? Taking as its starting point the concepts of myth developed by Jean-Luc Nancy and... more

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    Why do revivals and adaptations of Greek tragedy still abound in European national theatres, fringe stages and international festivals in the twenty-first century? Taking as its starting point the concepts of myth developed by Jean-Luc Nancy and Roland Barthes and the notion of the 'classical' outlined by Salvatore Settis, this book analyses discourses around community, democracy, origin and Western identity in stage adaptations of Greek tragedy on contemporary European stages. The author addresses the ways in which the theatre produces and perpetuates the myth of 'classical' Greece as the ori

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
    Format: Online
    ISBN: 9783034308076
    Series: New comparative criticism
    Scope: Online-Ressource (337 p)
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    Contents ; Acknowledgements ; Note on Style and Referencing System ; Illustrations ; Introduction ; Chapter 1 An Uninvited Guest: The Problem of the Chorus ; Chapter 2 Off Stage: The 'Obscene' and the Limits of Representation ; Chapter 3 The 'Democratic' Audience: Greek Theatre and Western Self-Definition ; Conclusion Reaching Athens ; Bibliography ; Production Details ; Index