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Epic performances from the Middle Ages into the twenty-first century /

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Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists with a rich storehouse of themes. This volume is the first systematic attempt to chart its afterlife across a range of diverse performance traditions, with analysis ranging widely across time, place, genre and academic and creative dis...

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Other Authors: Macintosh, Fiona, 1959- (Editor), McConnell, Justine (Editor), Harrison, S. J. (Editor), Kenward, Claire (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Epic poetry > Adaptations.
Epic poetry > History and criticism.
Stage adaptations.
Drama, Medieval > Modern presentation.
Table of Contents:
  • Defining terms
  • Crossing genres
  • Formal refractions
  • Empire and politics
  • High and low.