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

Graeco-Roman epic poetry was the staple of the early operatic repertoire and it continues to provide a rich storehouse of themes for contemporary creative artists working in divergent traditions. Since Tim Supple and Simon Reade's stage adaptation of Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid for the RS...

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Other Authors: Macintosh, Fiona, 1959- (Editor), McConnell, Justine (Editor), Harrison, S. J. (Editor), Kenward, Claire (Editor)
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Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
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505 0 |a 1. 'Epic' performances: from Brecht to Homer and back -- 2. Performing epic and reading Homer: an Aristotelian perspective -- 3. Shakespeare and epic -- 4. Theatre on an epic scale -- 5. Encountering Homer through Greek plays in sixteenth-century Europe -- 6. Epic acting in Shakespeare's Hamlet -- 7. 'I am that same wall; the truth is so': performing a tale from Ovid -- 8. Monsters and the question of inheritance in early modern French theatre -- 9. The future of epic in cinema: tropes of reproduction in Ridley Scott's Prometheus -- 10. From epic to lyric: Alice Oswald's and Barbara Koehler's refigurings of Homeric epic -- 11. Choreographing epic: the ocean as epic 'time-space' in Homer, Joyce, and Cunningham -- 12. Epic bodies: filtering the past and embodying the present -- a performer's perspective -- 13. A harmless distemper: accessing the classical underworld in Heywood's The Silver Age -- 14. Epic poetry into contemporary choreography: two twenty-first century dance adaptations of the Odyssey -- 15. Voicing Virgil: Dante performs the Latin epic -- 16. Homer as improviser? -- 17. 'Now hear this': text and performance in Christopher Logue's War Music (1959-2011) -- 18. Unfixing epic: Homeric orality and contemporary performance -- 19. Multimodal twenty-first-century bards: from live performance to audiobook in the Homeric adaptations of Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald -- 20. Homer 'viewed from the corridor': epic refracted in Michael Tippett's King Priam -- 21. Institutional receptions: camoes, Saramago, and the contemporary politics of The Lusiads on stage -- 22. Achilles in French tragedy (1563-1680) -- 23. The spectacle of conquest: epic conflicts on the seventeenth-century Spanish stage -- 24. Epic on Stage in the Dutch Republic -- 25. 'Marpesia cautes': Voicing Amazons, England and Ireland, 1640 -- 26. After the Aeneid: Ascanius in eighteenth-century opera -- 27. Epic performance through Invencao de Orfeu and an Iliad: two instantiations of epic as embodiment in the Americas -- 28. Performing Walcott, performing Homer: Omeros on stage and screen -- 29. 'Of arms and the man': Thersites in early modern English drama -- 30. Classical epic and the London fairs, 1697-1734 -- 31. Classical epic in early musical theatre: the case of Kane O'Hara's Midas -- 32. Epic transposed: the real and the hyperreal during the revolutionary period in France -- 33. Sacrilegious translation: the epic flop of Francois Ponsard's Ulysse (1852) -- 34. Epic Cassandras in performance, 1795-1868 -- 35. 'Of the rage, sing goddess': epic Opera -- 36. Fish, firemen, and Prize fighters: the transformation of the Iliad and Aeneid on the London burlesque stage -- Epilogue: Voices, bodies, silences, and media: Hightened receptivity in epic in performance. 
520 |a Graeco-Roman epic poetry was the staple of the early operatic repertoire and it continues to provide a rich storehouse of themes for contemporary creative artists working in divergent traditions. Since Tim Supple and Simon Reade's stage adaptation of Ted Hughes's Tales from Ovid for the RSC (1999), versions of Greek and Roman epics have routinely provided raw material for the performance repertoire both within major cultural institutions and from emergent, experimental theatre companies. The chapters in this volume range widely across time (the Middle Ages to the present), place (Europe, Asia, and the Americas), and genres (lyric, film, dance, opera) in their searches for ‘epic' content and form in diverse performance arenas. The anxieties about the ability to write epic in the early modern world in some way explain, together with the precedent of Greek tragedy's reworking of epic material, this migration to the theatre. Yet equally, with this migration, epic encountered the barriers imposed by neoclassicists, who sought to restrict serious theatre to a narrowly defined reality that precluded epic's broad sweeps across time and place. In many instances in recent years, the fact that the Homeric epics were composed orally makes reinvention not only legitimate but also deeply appropriate. With specialists from Classics, Music, English, Modern Languages, Dance, Theatre and Performance Studies, and from the creative industries, this volume is the first systematic attempt to chart the afterlife of epic in modern performance traditions. 
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