Dionysus Resurrected - Fischer-Lichte, Erika
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Before the late 1960s, Euripides' The Bacchae had almost no performance record on modern stages. Since then, the tragedy has been staged worldwide. By analyzing and contextualizing modern day performances in the United States, Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia, Fischer-Lichte reveals striking parallels between transformational events taking place during the era of the play's revival and events within the play itself.
Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence sincethe late 1960s of Euripides' The Bacchae . By analyzingand contextualizing these modern day performances, the…mehr

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Produktbeschreibung
Before the late 1960s, Euripides' The Bacchae had almost no performance record on modern stages. Since then, the tragedy has been staged worldwide. By analyzing and contextualizing modern day performances in the United States, Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia, Fischer-Lichte reveals striking parallels between transformational events taking place during the era of the play's revival and events within the play itself.
Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence sincethe late 1960s of Euripides' The Bacchae . By analyzingand contextualizing these modern day performances, the authorreveals striking parallels between transformational events takingplace during the era of the play's revival and events withinthe play itself.

Puts forward a lively discussion of the parallels betweentransformational eventsduring the era of the play's revivaland events within the play itself
The first comparative study to analyse and contextualizeperformances of The Bacchae that took place between 1968 and2009 from the United States, Africa, Latin America, Europe andAsia
Argues that presentations of the play not only representliminal states but also transfer the spectators into suchstates
Contends that the play's reflection on various stages ofglobalization render the tragedy a contemporary play
Establishes the importance of The Bacchae withinEuripides' work as the only extant tragedy in which the godDionysus himself appears, not just as a character but as theprotagonist
Autorenporträt
ERIKA FISCHER-LICHTE is Professor of Theatre Studies at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft at the Freie Universität of Berlin and Director of the International research centre "Interweaving Performance cultures." She has published extensively on the history of the theatre and on the reception of Greek tragedy. Her most recent publications include Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual: Exploring Forms of Political Theatre (2005), The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics (2008), and Performance and the Politics of Space: Theatre and Topology (edited with Benjamin Wihstutz, 2012).