Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 7 November 2018
- ISBN 9780198804215
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages666 pages
- Size 238x164x42 mm
- Weight 1154 g
- Language English
- Illustrations 40 black-and-white illustrations 0
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Short description:
Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists with a rich storehouse of themes: this volume is the first systematic attempt to chart its afterlife across a range of diverse performance traditions, with analysis ranging widely across time, place, genre, and academic and creative disciplines.
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Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists in the modern world with a rich storehouse of themes. Tim Supple and Simon Reade's 1999 stage adaptation of Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid for the RSC heralded a new lease of life for receptions of the genre, and it now routinely provides raw material for the performance repertoire of both major cultural institutions and emergent, experimental theatre companies.
This volume represents the first systematic attempt to chart the afterlife of epic in modern performance traditions, with chapters covering not only a significant chronological span, but also ranging widely across both place and genre, analysing lyric, film, dance, and opera from Europe to Asia and the Americas. What emerges most clearly is how anxieties about the ability to write epic in the early modern world, together with the ancient precedent of Greek tragedy's reworking of epic material, explain its migration to the theatre. This move, though, was not without problems, as epic encountered the barriers imposed by neo-classicists, who sought to restrict serious theatre to a narrowly defined reality that precluded its broad sweeps across time and place. In many instances in recent years, the fact that the Homeric epics were composed orally has rendered reinvention not only legitimate, but also deeply appropriate, opening up a range of forms and traditions within which epic themes and structures may be explored. Drawing on the expertise of specialists from the fields of classical studies, English and comparative literature, modern languages, music, dance, and theatre and performance studies, as well as from practitioners within the creative industries, the volume is able to offer an unprecedented modern and dynamic study of 'epic' content and form across myriad diverse performance arenas.
In such essays the variety of epic performances outlined in Performing Epic or Telling Tales appears in a new light, with expert scrutiny by practitioners and scholars offering boundless insights into theatrical processes and intertextual inspirations, encouraging the reader to experience the wealth of epic performances in the present day.
Table of Contents:
Frontmatter
List of Illustrations
List of Contributors
Note on Nomenclature, Spelling, and Texts
I. DEFINING TERMS
'Epic' Performances: From Brecht to Homer and Back
Performing Epic and Reading Homer: An Aristotelean Perspective
Shakespeare and Epic
Theatre on an Epic Scale
II. CROSSING GENRES
Encountering Homer through Greek Plays in Sixteenth-Century Europe
Epic Acting in Shakespeare's Hamlet
'I am that same wall; the truth is so': Performing a Tale from Ovid
Monsters and the Question of Inheritance in Early Modern French Theatre
The Future of Epic in Cinema: Tropes of Reproduction in Ridley Scott's Prometheus
From Epic to Lyric: Alice Oswald's and Barbara Köhler's Refigurings of Homeric Epic
Choreographing Epic: The Ocean as Epic 'Timespace' in Homer, Joyce, and Cunningham
Epic Bodies: Filtering the Past and Embodying the Present A Performer's Perspective
III. FORMAL REFRACTIONS
A Harmless Distemper: Accessing the Classical Underworld in Heywood's The Silver Age
Epic Poetry into Contemporary Choreography: Two Twenty-First Century Dance Adaptations of the Odyssey
Voicing Virgil: Dante Performs the Latin Epic
Homer as Improviser?
'Now hear this': Text and Performance in Christopher Logue's War Music (1959-2011)
Unfixing Epic: Homeric Orality and Contemporary Performance
Multimodal Twenty-First Century Bards: From Live Performance to Audiobook in the Homeric Adaptations of Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald
Homer 'viewed from the corridor': Epic Refracted in Michael Tippett's King Priam
IV. EMPIRE AND POLITICS
Institutional Receptions: Camões, Saramago, and the Contemporary Politics of The Lusíads on Stage
Achilles in French Tragedy (1563-1680)
The Spectacle of Conquest: Epic Conflicts on the Seventeenth-Century Spanish Stage
Epic on Stage in the Dutch Republic
'Marpesia cautes': Voicing Amazons, England and Ireland, 1640
After the Aeneid: Ascanius in Eighteenth-Century Opera
Epic Performance through Invencão de Orfeu and An Iliad: Two Instantiations of Epic as Embodiment in the Americas
Performing Walcott, Performing Homer: Omeros on Stage and Screen
V. HIGH AND LOW
'Of arms and the man': Thersites in Early Modern English Drama
Classical Epic and the London Fairs, 1697-1734
Classical Epic in Early Musical Theatre: The Case of Kane O'Hara's Midas
Epic Transposed: The Real and the Hyper-Real during the Revolutionary Period in France
Sacrilegious Translation: The Epic Flop of François Ponsard's Ulysse (1852)
Epic Cassandras in Performance, 1795-1868
'Of the rage, sing Goddess': Epic Opera
Fish, Firemen, and Prize Fighters: The Transformation of the Iliad and Aeneid on the London Burlesque Stage
Epilogue. Voices, Bodies, Silences, and Media: Heightened Receptivity in Epic in Performance
Endmatter
Bibliography
Index
