Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage

Erscheinungsjahr 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-958619-6
Verlag: OUP Oxford

Buch, Englisch, 496 Seiten, Format (B × H): 161 mm x 240 mm, Gewicht: 898 g

Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage is the first book to analyse what happens to Sophocles' play as it is adapted and (re)produced around the world, and the first to focus specifically on Antigone in performance. The essays, by an international gathering of noted scholars from a wide range of disciplines, highlight the numerous ways in which social, political, historical, and cultural contexts transform the material, how artists and audiences in diverse societies including Argentina, The Congo, Finland, Haiti, India, Japan, and the United States interact with it, and the variety of issues it has been used to address.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of Classics, Theatre Studies, Comparative Literature, Performance Studies, Women's Studies.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mee, Erin B.

Foley, Helene P.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatersoziologie, Theaterpsychologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Erin B. Mee and Helene P. Foley: Introduction: Mobilizing Antigone

- I. Antigone in Antiquity

- 2: Edith Hall: Antigone and the Internationalization of Theatre in Antiquity

- II. An Ancient Greek Play?

- 3: Moira Fradinger: An Argentine Tradition

- 4: Fiona Macintosh: Irish Antigone and Burying the Dead

- III. Cultural Freedom

- 5: Erin B. Mee: The Fight for Regional Autonomy Through Regional Culture: Antigone in Manipur, NE India

- 6: Moira Fradinger: Danbala's Daughter: Félix Morisseau-Leroy's Antigòn

- 7: Dongshin Chang: Antigone Inculturated in Tainan of Southern Taiwan

- 8: Cobina Gillitt: How the Fish Swims in Dirty Water: Antigone in Indonesia

- IV. Antigone and Human Rights

- 9: Serap Erincin: Performing Rebellion: Eurydice's Cry in Turkey

- 10: Dave Hunsaker: `You should have listened instead of mocking the spirits': Yup'ik Antigone in the Arctic

- 11: Marc Robinson: Declaring and Rethinking Solidarity: Antigone in Cracow

- V. Individual vs. Collective

- 12: Mae J. Smethurst: The Ku Na'uka Theatre Company's Antigone in Tokyo

- 13: Gonda Van Steen: 'Suspect always, like the truth': The Antigone of Aris Alexandrou on the Urban Stage of Thessaloniki, 2003

- VI. Antigone as Dissident

- 14: Mark Seamon: Antigone for Young Audiences: A Protest Parable

- 15: Dongshin Chang: Democracy at War: Antigone: Insurgency in Toronto

- VII. Cultural Memory

- 16: Edward Ziter: No Grave in the Earth: Antigone's Emigration and Arab Circulations

- 17: Martina Treu: Never Too Late: Antigone in a German WWII Cemetery in the Italian Appennines Mountains

- 18: Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson: Voice from the Black Box: Sylvain Bemba's Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone

- VIII. Sophocles vs. Anouilh

- 19: Nehad Selaiha: Antigone in Egypt

- 20: Helene P. Foley: Millennial Antigone in the US: Anouilh Revisited

- 21: Lorna Hardwick: Antigone's Journey: From Athens to Edinburgh, via Paris and Tbilisi

- 22: Hana Worthen: `Humanism', Scenography, Ideology: Antigone at the Finnish National Theatre, 1968

Über Autor(innen)

Edited by Erin B. Mee, Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College, and Helene P. Foley, Professor of Classics, Barnard College, Columbia University

Contributors:
Dongshin Chang, City University of New York
Serap Erincin, New York University
Moira Fradinger, Yale University
Helene P. Foley, Columbia University
Cobina Gillitt, New York University
Barbara Goff, Reading University
Edith Hall, Royal Holloway, University of London
Lorna Hardwick, The Open University
Dave Hunsaker
Fiona Macintosh, Oxford University
Erin B. Mee, Swarthmore College
Marc Robinson, Yale University
Mark Seamon, Denison University
Nehad Selaiha, The Academy of the Arts
Michael Simpson, Goldsmiths, University of London
Mae J. Smethurst, University of Pittsburgh
Gonda Van Steen, University of Florida
Martina Treu, IULM University, Milan
Hana Worthen, Columbia University
Edward Ziter, New York University