Theatre of the Condemned

Classical Tragedy on Greek Prison Islands
Erscheinungsjahr 2010
ISBN: 978-0-19-957288-5
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 370 Seiten, Print PDF, Format (B × H): 149 mm x 223 mm, Gewicht: 575 g

Gonda Van Steen examines the productions of classical tragedies staged by political prisoners of the Greek Civil War (late 1940s to 1950s). She first explains the historical and political context in which these productions originated, the selections made by the prisoners, and the practical conditions under which the performances were mounted, devoting attention, too, to the prison authorities' acts of censorship. Her main focus, however, is on the interpretation that the political detainees gave to their productions and the rationale behind specific readings. The book includes the text of an adaptation of Antigone, in the original Greek and in English translation, written by Aris Alexandrou, one of the prisoners.

Zielgruppe

Scholars and students of Classics, especially of classical reception; of theatre studies; of politics, political history, and political science; of the history of war, especially Nazism, the Cold War, and the Greek Civil War, and the treatment of prisoners of war; of the 20th-century history of Greece and the Balkans.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Van Steen, Gonda

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Europäische Länder
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Kultur- und Ideengeschichte

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- Introduction: Collectivity within the Confines of an Island

- 1: Selections, Occasions, Origins, and Objectives

- 2: Makronisos: Island of the `Greek Inventors of Barbarian Evils'

- 3: Female Prisoners Learning (in) Defiance: What's Playing on Trikeri?

- 4: The Prison and the Past as Theatre: Aeschylus `Persians' on Ai Stratis, September 1951

- 5: `Suspect Always Like the Truth': The `Antigone' of Aris Alexandrou

- 6: Alexandrou's `Antigone' (Greek text and English translation)

- Conclusion

Über Autor(innen)

Gonda Van Steen, Associate Professor of Classics, University of Florida