Hercules Performed
The Hero on Stage from the Enlightenment to the Early Twenty-First Century
Published on 22. August 2024
Book
Hardback
416 pages
978-90-04-69575-7 (ISBN)
Description
Hercules Performed explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles - the Roman Hercules - on the western stage from the sixteenth century to the present day, focusing on live theatre, including tragedy, comedy and musical drama. Each chapter considers a particular work or theme in detail, exploring the interplay between classical models and a wide variety of modern performance contexts. The volume is one of four to be published in the Metaforms series examining the extraordinarily persistent figuring of Herakles-Hercules in western culture, drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines to offer a unique insight into the hero's perennial appeal.
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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Target group
Professional and scholarly
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 236 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 28 mm
Weight
771 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-04-69575-7 (9789004695757)
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Emma Stafford is Professor of Greek Culture at the University of Leeds and author of numerous works on Greek myth and religion, including Herakles (Routledge 2012). She is co-editor of three other Hercules volumes in Brill's Metaforms series (2020).
Contributors are: Tim Benjamin, Neil W. Bernstein, Deborah Chatr Aryamontri, Lucia Degiovanni, Sofia Frade, Samuel D. Gartland, Sue Hamstead,
Owen Hodkinson, Eleftheria Ioannidou, Adriana F. Nogueira, Eleanor OKell, Robyn M. Rocklein, George Rodosthenous, Henry Stead.
Contributors are: Tim Benjamin, Neil W. Bernstein, Deborah Chatr Aryamontri, Lucia Degiovanni, Sofia Frade, Samuel D. Gartland, Sue Hamstead,
Owen Hodkinson, Eleftheria Ioannidou, Adriana F. Nogueira, Eleanor OKell, Robyn M. Rocklein, George Rodosthenous, Henry Stead.
Content
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Table
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Embodying the Hero and His Story
?Emma Stafford
Part 1: Labours
1 Sandow the Modern Hercules: or the Twelve Labours of the Class-Conscious Historian of British Classics
?Henry Stead
2 Hercules and the Tragicomic in the Epic Theatre of Duerrenmatt
?Deborah Chatr Aryamontri
3 'Breaking News: Hercules Is the Son of Zeus': the Chorus in Helen Eastman's Hercules
?Sofia Frade
4 'The Moral Madness of the Modern Herakles': Collage and Fragments in Tony Harrison's The Labourers of Herakles and the Harrison Archive
?Owen Hodkinson
Part 2: Madness
5 The Madness of Hercules from Euripides to the Renaissance
?Neil W. Bernstein
6 Herakles, Medea and the Reality of Filicide
?Sue Hamstead
7 Herakles in Orbit: the Role of Space in Modern Versions of Euripides' Herakles
?Samuel D. Gartland
Part 3: Death and Apotheosis
8 The Death and Apotheosis of Hercules at the Comedie-Italienne: from Senecan Tragedy to Commedia dell'Arte
?Lucia Degiovanni
9 The Sweet Vitality of Dancing Bodies: Classical Embodiment, Modernist Poetics, and Fascist Visions in Sophocles' Trachiniae at Syracuse in 1933
?Eleftheria Ioannidou
10 Herakles, Sex, Death, and Spin: Sophocles' Women of Trachis and Its Adaptations
?Eleanor OKell
11 Directing The Wife of Heracles (2010) for a Contemporary Audience: Footballers, Hairdressers and Dispensing the Poison
?George Rodosthenous
Part 4: Setting Hercules to Music
12 Hercules and Opera at the Court of Louis XIV: Ercole amante
?Jon Solomon
13 Shattered Female Virtue: Dejanira as Depicted in Handel's Hercules
?Robyn M. Rocklein
14 'I Shall Sing of Herakles': Writing a Hercules Oratorio for the Twenty-First Century
?Emma Stafford and Tim Benjamin
15 Herakles in Twenty-First Century Music
?Adriana F. Nogueira
Epilogue
?Emma Stafford
Index
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Figures and Table
Notes on Contributors
Introduction: Embodying the Hero and His Story
?Emma Stafford
Part 1: Labours
1 Sandow the Modern Hercules: or the Twelve Labours of the Class-Conscious Historian of British Classics
?Henry Stead
2 Hercules and the Tragicomic in the Epic Theatre of Duerrenmatt
?Deborah Chatr Aryamontri
3 'Breaking News: Hercules Is the Son of Zeus': the Chorus in Helen Eastman's Hercules
?Sofia Frade
4 'The Moral Madness of the Modern Herakles': Collage and Fragments in Tony Harrison's The Labourers of Herakles and the Harrison Archive
?Owen Hodkinson
Part 2: Madness
5 The Madness of Hercules from Euripides to the Renaissance
?Neil W. Bernstein
6 Herakles, Medea and the Reality of Filicide
?Sue Hamstead
7 Herakles in Orbit: the Role of Space in Modern Versions of Euripides' Herakles
?Samuel D. Gartland
Part 3: Death and Apotheosis
8 The Death and Apotheosis of Hercules at the Comedie-Italienne: from Senecan Tragedy to Commedia dell'Arte
?Lucia Degiovanni
9 The Sweet Vitality of Dancing Bodies: Classical Embodiment, Modernist Poetics, and Fascist Visions in Sophocles' Trachiniae at Syracuse in 1933
?Eleftheria Ioannidou
10 Herakles, Sex, Death, and Spin: Sophocles' Women of Trachis and Its Adaptations
?Eleanor OKell
11 Directing The Wife of Heracles (2010) for a Contemporary Audience: Footballers, Hairdressers and Dispensing the Poison
?George Rodosthenous
Part 4: Setting Hercules to Music
12 Hercules and Opera at the Court of Louis XIV: Ercole amante
?Jon Solomon
13 Shattered Female Virtue: Dejanira as Depicted in Handel's Hercules
?Robyn M. Rocklein
14 'I Shall Sing of Herakles': Writing a Hercules Oratorio for the Twenty-First Century
?Emma Stafford and Tim Benjamin
15 Herakles in Twenty-First Century Music
?Adriana F. Nogueira
Epilogue
?Emma Stafford
Index