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

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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)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
Subjects:
Epic poetry > Adaptations.
Epic poetry > History and criticism.
Stage adaptations.
Poésie épique > Histoire et critique.
Adaptations scéniques.
PERFORMING ARTS > Theater > General.
Stage adaptations
Epic poetry
Drama, Medieval > Modern presentation
Performing arts
Theater > Medieval
Europe
To 1500
Electronic books.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Adaptations
History
Adaptations.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • 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.