Hercules Performed
Brill (Verlag)
978-90-04-69575-7 (ISBN)
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.
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 Dürrenmatt
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 Comédie-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
Erscheinungsdatum | 03.09.2024 |
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Reihe/Serie | Metaforms ; 25 |
Verlagsort | Leiden |
Sprache | englisch |
Maße | 155 x 235 mm |
Gewicht | 818 g |
Themenwelt | Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Theater / Ballett |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Vor- und Frühgeschichte | |
Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike | |
ISBN-10 | 90-04-69575-3 / 9004695753 |
ISBN-13 | 978-90-04-69575-7 / 9789004695757 |
Zustand | Neuware |
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