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The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas

Cover of 'The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas'. The title is written in white and lilac against a black background, below a photo of Hecuba performed at Brooklyn Academy of Music, New York (2005).
Kathryn Bosher, Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, and Patrice Rankine
2015
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The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first edited collection to discuss the performance of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. This volume tracks networks across continents and oceans and uncovers the ways in which the shared histories and practices in the performance arts in the Americas have routinely defied national boundaries. It seeks to define the complex contours of the reception of Greek drama in the Americas, and to articulate how these different engagements - at local, national, or trans-continental levels, as well as across borders - have been distinct both from each other, and from those of Europe and Asia. 

Publisher
Oxford University Press
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  1. Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, and Patrice Rankine, ‘Introduction’ 
  1. Susan Curtis, ‘An Archival Interrogation’ 
  1. Barbara Goff and Michael Simpson, ‘New Worlds, Old Dreams? Postcolonial Theory and Reception of Greek Drama’ 
  1. Lee T. Pearcy, ‘Grecian Theater in Philadelphia, 1800-1870' 
  1. Fiona Macintosh, ‘Thebes in the New World: Revisiting the New York Antigone of 1845’ 
  1. Helene Foley, ‘Julia Ward Howe's Hippolytus’ 
  1. Kathryn Bosher and Jordana Cox, ‘Professional Tragedy: The Case of Medea in Chicago, 1867’ 
  1. Robert Davis, ‘Barbarian Queens: Race, Violence, and Antiquity on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage’ 
  1. David Mayer, ‘When Greeks Stand You Up, Invite Romans: The Ancient World on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage’ 
  1. Edith Hall, ‘The Migrant Muse: Greek Drama as Feminist Window on American Identity, 1900-1925' 
  1. Niall W. Slater, ‘Iphigenia Amongst the Ivies, 1915’ 
  1. Moira Day, ‘Treading the Arduous Road to Eleusis, Nationalism and Feminism in Early Post-World War I Canada: Roy Mitchell's 1920 The Trojan Women’ 
  1. Artemis Leontis, ‘Greek Theater in Modern Dance: An Alternative Archaeology’ 
  1. Vassilis Lambropoulos, ‘Eugene O'Neill's Quest for Greek Tragedy’ 
  1. Susan Manning, ‘Choreographing the Classics, Performing Sexual Dissidence’ 
  1. Francisco Barrenechea, ‘Greek Drama in Mexico’ 
  1. Judith P. Hallett, ‘Moving and Dramatic Athenian Citizenship: Edith Hamilton's Americanization of Greek Tragedy’ 
  1. Lena Hill, ‘A New Stage of Laughter for Zora Neale Hurston and Theodore Brown: Lysistrata and the Negro Units of the Federal Theatre Project’ 
  1. John Given, ‘Aristophanic Comedy in American Musical Theater, 1925-1969' 
  1. Konstantinos Nikoloutsos, ‘Cubanizing Greek Drama: José Triana's Medea in the Mirror, 1960’ 
  1. Rosa Andújar, ‘Revolutionizing Greek Tragedy in Cuba: Virgilio Piñera's Electra Garrigó, 1948’ 
  1. Paul Dixon, ‘Alfredo Dias Gomes' O Pagador de promessas and Antigone's Dilemma’ 
  1. José de Paiva dos Santos, ‘The Darkening of Medea: Geographies of Race, (Dis)Placement and Identity in Agostinho Olavo's Além do Rio (Medea)’ 
  1. Aníbal A. Biglieri, ‘The Frontiers of David Cureses' La frontera’ 
  1. Isabelle Torrance, ‘Brothers at War: Aeschylus in Cuba 1968 and 2007’ 
  1. Thomas E. Jenkins, ‘Metaphor and Modernity: American Themes in Herakles and Dionysus in '69’ 
  1. Justine McConnell, ‘Lee Breuer's New American Classicism: The Gospel at Colonus's Integration Statement’ 
  1. Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz, ‘Afrocentrism or Assimilation: The Case of Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth’ 
  1. Katie Billotte, ‘The Power of Medea's Sisterhood: America(ns) on the Margins in Cherríe Moraga's The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea’ 
  1. Patrice Rankine, ‘August Wilson and Greek Drama: Blackface Minstrelsy, 'Spectacle' from Aristotle's Poetics, and Radio Golf’ 
  1. Kevin J. Wetmore Jr., “Aeschylus Got Flow!': Afrosporic Greek Tragedy and Will Power's The Seven’ 
  1. Moira Fradinger, ‘Visibility Strategies: Multiple Antigones on the Colombian Twenty-First Century Stage’ 
  1. Dorota Dutsch, ‘Democratic Appropriations: Lysistrata and Political Activism’ 
  1. Melinda Powers, ‘Reclaiming Euripides in Harlem’ 
  1. María Florencia Nelli, ‘Oedipus Tyrannus in South America’ 
  1. Mary-Kay Gamel, ‘Greek Drama on the West Coast, 1970-2013' 
  1. Laura Lodewyck and S. Sara Monoson, ‘Performing for Soldiers: Twenty-First Century Experiments in Greek Theater in the U.S.’ 
  1. Hallie Rebecca Marshall, ‘Greek Tragedy in Canada: Women's Voices and Minority Views’ 
  1. Daniel Banks and Patrice Rankine, ‘Countee Cullen's Medea: Daniel Banks on Adaptation and Change’ 
  1. Yopie Prins, ‘This Bird That Never Settles: A Virtual Conversation with Anne Carson about Greek Tragedy’ 
  1. Cesar Gemelli, ‘An Interview with Heron Coelho’ 
  1. María Florencia Nelli, ‘An Interview with Héctor Levy-Daniel' 
  1. Erin B. Mee, ‘Charles Mee's '(Re)Making' of Greek Drama’ 
  1. Margaret Williamson, ‘An Interview with Carey Perloff’ 
  1. Rush Rehm, ‘Eclectic Encounters: Staging Greek Tragedy in America, 1973 – 2009' 
  1. Justine McConnell and Patrice Rankine, ‘The Shock of Recognition: Nicholas Rudall's Translation of Greek Drama for the Chicago Stage at Court Theatre’ 
  1. Avery Willis Hoffman, ‘In Conversation with Peter Sellars: 'What Does Greek Tragedy Mean to You?'’ 
  1. Peggy Shannon, ‘Women and War’ 
  1. Shawn Sides, ‘Dionysus in 69 in 2009’ 
  1. Helen Eastman, ‘Talking Greeks with Derek Walcott’ 
  1. Lorna Hardwick, ‘Audiences Across the Pond: Oceans Apart or Shared Experiences?’