
Radical Theatre
Greek Tragedy in the Modern World
Rush Rehm(Author)
Bristol Classical Press
Published on 27. June 2003
Book
Paperback/Softback
160 pages
978-0-7156-2916-1 (ISBN)
Description
Why should Greek tragedy matter now? This book opens a dialogue between the tragic theatre in ancient Athens and the multiple performances of the modern world. In five interconnected chapters, Rush Rehm engages tragedy on its own terms, using our oldest theatre as inspiration for how we might shape the theatre of the future. Part analysis, part polemic, this book engages the aesthetic, political and ethical challenges of Greek tragedy as a means of confronting what tomorrow's theatre can do.
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Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Publishing group
Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Dimensions
Height: 234 mm
Width: 156 mm
Thickness: 10 mm
Weight
278 gr
ISBN-13
978-0-7156-2916-1 (9780715629161)
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Person
Rush Rehm is Associate Professor of Drama and Classics at Stanford University and works professionally as an actor and director when he can. He is the author of The Oresteia: A Theatre Version (1978), Greek Tragic Theatre (1992), Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Weddings and Funerals in Greek Tragedy (1994), and The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy (2002).
Content
A Note to the Reader
Introduction: Timely Thoughts
1. Theatre, Artifice, Environment
2. Tragedy and Fear
3. The Fate of Agency, the Agency of Fate
4. Tragedy and Ideology
5. Tragedy and Time
Epilogue: Progress and Survival
Notes
Bibliography
Index