BIBFRAME Work

Title

Theorising performance : Greek drama, cultural history and critical practice

Other Titles (e.g. Variant)

Theorizing performance

Type

• Monograph
• Text

Contribution

• Hall, Edith, 1959- (editor)
• Harrop, Stephe (editor)

Subject

• Rezeption (SWD)
• Aufführung (SWD)
• Greek drama--Modern presentation (LCSH)
• Geschichte (SWD)
• Literature (EFLCH)
• Drama (SWD)
• Greek drama--History and criticism (LCSH)
• Griechisch (SWD)

Genre Form

• Aufsatzsammlung (SWD)
• Conference papers and proceedings (LCGFT)

Language

• English

Illustrative Content

• illustrations

Classification

LCC: PA3238 (Assigner: dlc) (Status: used by assigner)

Content

• text

Supplementary content

• index
• bibliography

Summary

This collection provides an analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective.

Table of Contents

Towards a theory of performance reception / Edith Hall -- Performance as event : reception as transformation / Erika Fischer-Lichte -- Greek and Shakespearean plays in performance : their different academic receptions / David Wiles -- Cultural history and aesthetics : why Kant is no place to start reception studies / Simon Goldhill -- Performance, reception, aesthetics : or why reception studies need Kant / Charles Martindale -- From à la carte to convergence : symptoms of interdisciplinarity in reception theory / Zachary Dunbar -- Archiving events, performing documents : on the seductions and challenges of performance archives / Pantelis Michelakis -- Bringing together nature and culture : on the uses and limits of cognitive science for the study of performance reception / Felix Budelmann -- Does a Deleuzean philosophy of radical physicality lead to the 'death of tragedy'? : some thoughts on the dismissal of the climactic orientation of Greek tragedy / Freddy Decreus -- Generic ambiguity in modern productions and new versions of Greek tragedy / Helene Foley -- Revising 'authenticity' in staging ancient Mediterranean drama / Mary-Kay Gamel -- Towards theorising the place of costume in performance reception / Rosie Wyles -- Performance reception and the 'textual twist' : towards a theory of literary reception / Simon Perris -- Negotiating translation for the stage / Lorna Hardwick -- From translation to performance reception : the death of the author and the performance text / Eleftheria Ionnidou -- Acting perspectives : the phenomenology of performance as a route to reception / Jane Montgomery Griffiths -- Physical performance and the languages of translation / Stephe Harrop -- 'Spatial poetics' and Greek drama : scenography as reception / Paul Monaghan -- Translating Greek drama for performance / Blake Morrison.

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Theorising performance : Greek drama, cultural history and critical practice

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