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050	0	4	_aPA3131 _b.R456 2012
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100	1		_aFoley, Helene P., _d1942- _e1
245	1	0	_aRe-imagining Greek tragedy on the American stage /Helene P. Foley.
260			_aBerkeley : _bUniversity of California Press, _c(c)2012.
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490	1		_aSather classical lectures ; _v70
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505	0	0	_aGreek tragedy finds an American audience -- _tSetting the stage -- _tAmerican theater makes Greek tragedy its own -- _tMaking total theater in America: choreography and music -- _tHellenic influences on the development of American modern dance -- _tAmerican Gesamtkunste Werke -- _tMusical theater -- _tVisual choreography in Robert Wilson's Alcestis -- _tDemocratizing Greek tragedy -- _tAntigone and politics in the nineteenth century: the Boston 1890 Antigone -- _tPerformance groups in the 1960s-1970s: Brecht's Antigone by the living theatre -- _tThe 1980s and beyond: Peter Sellars' Persians, Ajax and the Children of Heracles compared with other versions of Persians and Ajax -- _tAeschylus' Prometheus bound in the U.S.: from the threat of apocalypse to communal reconciliation -- _tRe-envisioning the hero: American Oedipus -- _tOedipus as scapegoat -- _tPlagues -- _tTheban cycles -- _tDecemberonstructing fatality -- _tAbandonment -- _tRe-imagining Medea as American other -- _tSetting the stage: nineteenth century Medea -- _tMedea as social critic from the mid-1930s-the late 1940s -- _tMedea as ethnic other from the 1970s-the present -- _tMedea's divided self: drag and cross dressed performances.
520	0		_aThis book explores the emergence of Greek tragedy on the American stage from the nineteenth century to the present. Despite the gap separating the world of classical Greece from our own, Greek tragedy has provided a fertile source for some of the most innovative American theater. Helene P. Foley shows how plays like Oedipus Rex and Medea have resonated deeply with contemporary concerns and controversies-over war, slavery, race, the status of women, religion, identity, and immigration. Although Greek tragedy was often initially embraced for its melodramatic possibilities, by the twentieth centu.
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650		0	_aGreek drama _xHistory and criticism.
650		0	_aTheater _zUnited States _xHistory.
655		1	_aElectronic Books.
856	4	0	_uhttps://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=500854&site=eds-live&custid=s3260518 _zClick to access digital title | log in using your CIU ID number and my.ciu.edu password
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902			_a1 _bCynthia Snell _c1 _dCynthia Snell