Olga Taxidou

Gebundenes Buch

Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance

Hellenism as Theatricality

Beschreibung

Examines the centrality of Greek tragedy for modernist performance This book explores how encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in modernist experiments in performance. It analyses the experiments of Isadora Duncan, Edward Gordon Craig, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, H. D., and Bertolt Brecht in creating a modernist aesthetic in performing, dancing, translating, and designing Greek tragedies, sometimes for the stage and sometimes for the page. The book proposes a modernist aesthetic of Greek tragedy based on Hellenism as theatricality that radically revises the philosophical discourses of tragedy. Olga Taxidou is Professor of Drama and Performance Studies at the University of Edinburgh.

Autor

Olga Taxidou is Professor of Drama and Performance Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She is author of The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig (Routledge, 1998) and of Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning (Edinburgh University Press, 2004) and co-editor of Modernism: An Anthology of Sources and Documents (Edinburgh University Press, 1998) and of Post-War Cinema and Modernism: A Film Reader (Edinburgh University Press, 2000). She is co-editor with Vassiliki Kolocotroni of The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism (Edinburgh University Press, 2017, pk, 2020) and with Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Jane Goldman, Modernism: an Anthology of Sources and Documents (Edinburgh University Press, 1998, 2000).

Produktdetails

• Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performance
• Verlag: Edinburgh University Press
• Seitenzahl: 208
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 13mm
• Gewicht: 464g
• ISBN-13: 9781474415569
• ISBN-10: 1474415563
• Artikelnr.: 59991128