Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century

Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century

Kenward, Claire; Harrison, Stephen; McConnell, Justine; Macintosh, Fiona

Oxford University Press

11/2018

666

Dura

Inglês

9780198804215

15 a 20 dias

1154

Descrição não disponível.

Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Note on Nomenclature, Spelling, and Texts
I. DEFINING TERMS
1: Fiona Macintosh: 'Epic' Performances: From Brecht to Homer and Back
2: Barbara Graziosi: Performing Epic and Reading Homer: An Aristotelean Perspective
3: Colin Burrow: Shakespeare and Epic
4: Tim Supple: Theatre on an Epic Scale
II. CROSSING GENRES
5: Tanya Pollard: Encountering Homer through Greek Plays in Sixteenth-Century Europe
6: David Wiles: Epic Acting in Shakespeare's Hamlet
7: Marchella Ward: 'I am that same wall; the truth is so': Performing a Tale from Ovid
8: Wes Williams: Monsters and the Question of Inheritance in Early Modern French Theatre
9: Pantelis Michelakis: The Future of Epic in Cinema: Tropes of Reproduction in Ridley Scott's Prometheus
10: Georgina Paul: From Epic to Lyric: Alice Oswald's and Barbara Koehler's Refigurings of Homeric Epic
11: Arabella Stanger: Choreographing Epic: The Ocean as Epic 'Timespace' in Homer, Joyce, and Cunningham
12: Marie-Louise Crawley: Epic Bodies: Filtering the Past and Embodying the Present A Performer's Perspective
III. FORMAL REFRACTIONS
13: Margaret Kean: A Harmless Distemper: Accessing the Classical Underworld in Heywood's The Silver Age
14: Tom Sapsford: Epic Poetry into Contemporary Choreography: Two Twenty-First Century Dance Adaptations of the Odyssey
15: Robin Kirkpatrick: Voicing Virgil: Dante Performs the Latin Epic
16: Graeme Bird: Homer as Improviser?
17: Henry Power: 'Now hear this': Text and Performance in Christopher Logue's War Music (1959-2011)
18: Stephe Harrop: Unfixing Epic: Homeric Orality and Contemporary Performance
19: Emily Greenwood: Multimodal Twenty-First Century Bards: From Live Performance to Audiobook in the Homeric Adaptations of Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald
20: Emily Pillinger: Homer 'viewed from the corridor': Epic Refracted in Michael Tippett's King Priam
IV. EMPIRE AND POLITICS
21: Tatiana Faia: Institutional Receptions: Camoes, Saramago, and the Contemporary Politics of The Lusiads on Stage
22: Tiphaine Karsenti: Achilles in French Tragedy (1563-1680)
23: Imogen Choi: The Spectacle of Conquest: Epic Conflicts on the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Stage
24: Frederick Naerebout: Epic on Stage in the Dutch Republic
25: Deana Rankin: 'Marpesia cautes': Voicing Amazons, England and Ireland, 1640
26: Stephen Harrison: After the Aeneid: Ascanius in Eighteenth-Century Opera
27: Patrice Rankine: Epic Performance through Invencao de Orfeu and An Iliad: Two Instantiations of Epic as Embodiment in the Americas
28: Justine McConnell: Performing Walcott, Performing Homer: Omeros on Stage and Screen
V. HIGH AND LOW
29: Claire Kenward: 'Of arms and the man': Thersites in Early Modern English Drama
30: Edith Hall: Classical Epic and the London Fairs, 1697-1734
31: Henry Stead: Classical Epic in Early Musical Theatre: The Case of Kane O'Hara's Midas
32: Fiona Macintosh: Epic Transposed: The Real and the Hyper-Real during the Revolutionary Period in France
33: Cecile Dudouyt: Sacrilegious Translation: The Epic Flop of Francois Ponsard's Ulysse (1852)
34: Laura Monros-Gaspar: Epic Cassandras in Performance, 1795-1868
35: Margaret Reynolds: 'Of the rage, sing Goddess': Epic Opera
36: Rachel Bryant Davies: Fish, Firemen, and Prize Fighters: The Transformation of the Iliad and Aeneid on the London Burlesque Stage
Lorna Hardwick: Epilogue. Voices, Bodies, Silences, and Media: Heightened Receptivity in Epic in Performance
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index