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Theorising Performance

Greek Drama, Cultural History and Critical Practice
Cover of 'Theorising Performance'. The title is written in white overlaid over a photo of Tragedia Endogonidia, directed by Romeo Castellucci.
Edith Hall and Stephe Harrop
2010
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This exciting collection constitutes the first analysis of the modern performance of ancient Greek drama from a theoretical perspective. A lively interdisciplinary dialogue providing a theoretical framework to the revival of ancient Greek plays in modern performance, inspired by a conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama (APGRD) in Oxford, this volume brings together sixteen experts in Classics, Drama, Music, Cultural History and the world of professional theatre.  

Publisher
Duckworth/Bloomsbury Academic
See the volume on the Bloomsbury website
  1. Edith Hall, ‘Towards a theory of performance reception’ 
  1. Erika Fischer-Lichte, ‘Performance as event: reception as transformation’ 
  1. David Wiles, ‘Greek and Shakespearean plays in performance: their different academic receptions’ 
  1. Simon Goldhill, ‘Cultural history and aesthetics: why Kant is no place to start reception studies’ 
  1. Simon Goldhill, ‘Performance, reception, aesthetics: or why reception studies need Kant’or why reception studies need Kant / Charles Martindale  
  1. Zachary Dunbar, ‘From à la carte to convergence: symptoms of interdisciplinarity in reception theory’ 
  1. Pantelis Michelakis, ‘Archiving events, performing documents: on the seductions and challenges of performance archives’ 
  1. Felix Budelmann, ‘Bringing together nature and culture: on the uses and limits of cognitive science for the study of performance reception’ 
  1. Freddy Decreus, ‘Does a Deleuzean philosophy of radical physicality lead to the 'death of tragedy'?: some thoughts on the dismissal of the climactic orientation of Greek tragedy’ 
  1. Helene Foley, ‘Generic ambiguity in modern productions and new versions of Greek tragedy’ 
  1. Mary-Kay Gamel, ‘Revising 'authenticity' in staging ancient Mediterranean drama’ 
  1. Rosie Wyles, ‘Towards theorising the place of costume in performance reception’ 
  1. Simon Perris, ‘Performance reception and the 'textual twist': towards a theory of literary reception’ 
  1. Lorna Hardwick, ‘Negotiating translation for the stage’ 
  1. Eleftheria Ionnidou, ‘From translation to performance reception: the death of the author and the performance text’ 
  1. Jane Montgomery Griffiths, ‘Acting perspectives: the phenomenology of performance as a route to reception’ 
  1. Stephe Harrop, ‘Physical performance and the languages of translation’ 
  1. Paul Monaghan. “Spatial poetics' and Greek drama: scenography as reception’ 
  1.  Blake Morrison, ‘Translating Greek drama for performance’