Dionysus Resurrected : Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World.
Title:
Dionysus Resurrected : Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World.
Author:
Fischer-Lichte, Erika.
ISBN:
9781118609781
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Edition:
1st ed.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (258 pages)
Series:
Blackwell-Bristol Lectures on Greece, Rome and the Classical Tradition
Contents:
Dionysus Resurrected: Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Re-enter Dionysus -- The Topicality of The Bacchae -- Theories of Sacrificial Ritual in the 1970s -- From "Text" to "Performance": A New Theatre Aesthetics -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Part I: Festivals of Liberation: Celebrating Communality -- Chapter 1: The Birth Ritual of a New Theatre -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 2: Celebrating a Communion Rite? -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 3: Sparagmos and Omophagia -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Part II: Renegotiating Cultural Identities -- Chapter 4: On the Strangeness and Inaccessibility of the Past -- Note -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 5: Performing or Contaminating Greekness? -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 6: In Search of New Identities -- Notes -- References -- Part III: Productive Encounter or Destructive Clash of Cultures? -- Chapter 7: Dismemberment and the Quest for Wholeness -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 8: Transforming Kathakali -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Chapter 9: Beijing Opera Dismembered -- Notes -- References -- Further Reading -- Epilogue -- Name Index -- Subject Index.
Abstract:
Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides' The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing these modern day performances, the author reveals striking parallels between transformational events taking place during the era of the play's revival and events within the play itself. Puts forward a lively discussion of the parallels between transformational eventsduring the era of the play's revival and events within the play itself The first comparative study to analyse and contextualize performances of The Bacchae that took place between 1968 and 2009 from the United States, Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia Argues that presentations of the play not only represent liminal states but also transfer the spectators into such states Contends that the play's reflection on various stages of globalization render the tragedy a contemporary play Establishes the importance of The Bacchae within Euripides' work as the only extant tragedy in which the god Dionysus himself appears, not just as a character but as the protagonist.
Local Note:
Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2017. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.
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