Dionysus resurrected : performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a globalizing world /
Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides' The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing these modern day performances, the author reveals striking parallels between transformational events taking place during the era of the play's revival and ev...
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Chichester, West Sussex :
John Wiley & Sons Ltd,
2014.
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Table of Contents:
- Dionysus Resurrected: Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Re-enter Dionysus; The Topicality of The Bacchae; Theories of Sacrificial Ritual in the 1970s; From Text to Performance: A New Theatre Aesthetics; Notes; References; Further Reading; Part I: Festivals of Liberation: Celebrating Communality; Chapter 1: The Birth Ritual of a New Theatre; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 2: Celebrating a Communion Rite?; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 3: Sparagmos and Omophagia; Notes; References.
- Further ReadingPart II: Renegotiating Cultural Identities; Chapter 4: On the Strangeness and Inaccessibility of the Past; Note; References; Further Reading; Chapter 5: Performing or Contaminating Greekness?; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 6: In Search of New Identities; Notes; References; Part III: Productive Encounter or Destructive Clash of Cultures?; Chapter 7: Dismemberment and the Quest for Wholeness; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 8: Transforming Kathakali; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 9: Beijing Opera Dismembered; Notes; References.
- Further ReadingEpilogue; Name Index; Subject Index.
