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Dialogues with the past : classical reception theory & practice
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Dialogues with the past : classical reception theory & practice

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"Many of these essays began life as papers at the Reception of ancient Greek and Roman Drama Conference held at the Institute of Classical Studies (11-13 June 2008)"--Introduction.

Contents

Volume 2. Introduction: in dialogue with the past 2 / Antastasia Bakogianni
Chapter 1. Performance reception. Feeling the words in Sophocles' Electra / Jane Montgomery Griffiths
Sarah Ruhl's Eurydice: a dramatic study of the Orpheus myth in reverse / Athena Coronis
'Absolute Alcestis': Robert Wilson stages Euripides and Heiner Müller (Stuttgart 1987) / Hans Peter Obermayer
Chapter 2. Performance histories. Performances of Greek and Roman drama at the Roman theatre of Sagunto (1982-2008) / Laura Monrós-Gaspar
Five Medeas: Euripides in Brazil / Maria Cecília Coelho
Chapter 3. French receptions. 'Accidental creativity': scribes, scholars, translators, and the Iphigenia dramas of seventeenth-century France / Susanna Phillippo
Peladan's symbolist Prométhéide and the transformation of world in fin de siècle Paris / Paul Monaghan
Chapter 4. Latin receptions. The attack-scene in Euripides' Alexandros and its reception in Etruscan art / Ioanna Karamanou
Imperial love affairs on the stage: the pseudo-Senecan Praetexta Octavia and the opera Il Nerone (1679) / Gesine Manuwald
Contaminatio and adaptation: the modern reception of ancient drama as an aid to understanding Roman comedy / Lisa Maurice
Index.

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