The Oxford Handbook Of Greek Drama In The Americas Greek Drama In The Americas Oxford Handbooks Online

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. The study and interpretation of the classics have never been restricted by geographical or linguistic boundaries but, in the case of the Americas, long colonial histories have often imposed such boundaries arbitrarily. 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. With contributions from classicists, Latin American specialists, theatre and performance theorists, and historians, the Handbook also includes interviews with key writers, including Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Charles Mee, and Anne Carson, and leading theatre directors such as Peter Sellars, Carey Perloff, Héctor Daniel-Levy, and Heron Coelho. This richly illustrated volume 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. This Edited Collection Discusses The Presence Of Greek Drama Across The Continents And Archipelagos Of The Americas From The Beginning Of The 19th Century To The Present. Theories And Methods. Introduction / Fiona Macintosh, Justice Mcconnell, And Patrice Rankine -- An Archival Interrogation / Susan Curtis -- New Worlds, Old Dreams?: Postcolonial Theory And Reception Of Greek Drama / Barbara Goff And Michael Simpson -- Shaping American Theater (1800-1900). Grecian Theater In Philadelphia, 1800-1870 / Lee T. Pearcy -- Thebes In The New World: Revisiting The New York Antigone Of 1845 / Fiona Macintosh -- Julia Ward Howe's Hippolytus / Helene P. Foley -- Professional Tragedy: The Case Of Medea In Chicago, 1867 / Kathryn Bosher And Jordana Cox -- Barbarian Queens: Race, Violence, And Antiquity On The Nineteenth-century United States Stage / Robert Davis -- When Greeks Stand You Up, Invite Romans: The Ancient World On The Nineteenth-century American Stage / David Mayer -- Modernisms In The Americas (1900-1930). The Migrant Muse: Greek Drama As Feminist Window On American Identity, 1900-1925 / Edith Hall -- Iphigenia Amongst The Ivies, 1915 / Niall W. Slater -- Treading The Arduous Road To Eleusis, Nationalism, And Feminism In Early Post-world War I Canada: Roy Mitchell's 1920 The Trojan Women / Moira Day -- Greek Tragedy And Modern Dance: An Alternative Archaeology? / Artemis Leontis -- Eugene O'neill's Quest For Greek Tragedy / Vassilis Lambropoulos -- The Living Pasts (1925-1970). Choreographing The Classics, Performing Sexual Dissidence / Susan Manning -- Greek Tragedy In Mexico / Francisco Barrenechea -- Moving And Dramatic Athenian Citizenship: Edith Hamilton's Americanization Of Greek Tragedy / Judith P. Hallett -- A New Stage Of Laughter For Zora Neale Hurston And Theodore Browne: Lysistrata And The Negro Units Of The Federal Theatre Project / Lena M. Hill -- Aristophanic Comedy In American Musical Theater, 1925-1969 / John Given -- Cubanizing Greek Drama: José Triana's Medea In The Mirror (1960) / Konstantinos P. Nikoloutsos -- Creative Collisions (1948-1968). Revolutionizing Greek Tragedy In Cuba: Virgilio Piñera's Electra Garrigó / Rosa Andújar -- A Brazilian Echo Of Antigone's Collision: Tragedy, Clean And Filthy / Paul B. Dixon -- The Darkening Of Medea: Geographies Of Race, (dis)placement, And Identity In Agostinho Olavo's Além Do Rio (medea) / José De Paiva Dos Santos -- The Frontiers Of David Cureses' La Frontera / Aníbal A. Biglieri -- Brothers At War: Aeschylus In Cuba, 1968 And 2007 / Isabelle Torrance -- The Search For The Omni-americans (1970s-2013). Metaphor And Modernity: American Themes In Herakles And Dionysus In 69 / Thomas E. Jenkins -- Lee Breuer's New American Classicism: The Gospel At Colonus' Integration Statement / Justine Mcconnell -- Greek Tragedy, Enslaving Or Liberating?: The Example Of Rita Dove's The Darker Face Of The Earth / Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz -- The Power Of Medea's Sisterhood: Democracy On The Margins In Cherríe Moraga's The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea / Katie Billotte -- August Wilson And Greek Drama: Blackface Minstrelsy, Spectacle From Aristotle's Poetics, And Radio Golf / Patrice Rankine -- Aeschylus Got Flow!: Afrosporic Greek Tragedy And Will Power's The Seven / Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr. -- Making Women Visible: Multiple Antigones On The Colombian Twenty-first-century Stage / Moira Fradinger -- Democratic Appropriations: Lysistrata And Political Activism / Dorota Dutsch -- Reclaiming Euripides In Harlem / Melinda Powers -- Oedipus Tyrannus In South America / María Florencia Nelli -- Greek Drama On The U.s. West Coast, 1970-2013 / Mary-kay Gamel -- Performing For Soldiers: Twenty-first-century Experiments In Greek Theater In The U.s.a. / Laura Lodewyck And S. Sara Monoson -- Greek Drama In Canada: Women's Voices And Minority Views / Hallie Rebecca Marshall -- Practitioner Perspectives. On Remixing The Classics And Directing Countee Cullen's Medea And Law Chavez's Señora De La Pinta: An Interview With Theater Director Daniel Banks / Patrice Rankine And Daniel Banks -- This Bird That Never Settles: A Virtual Conversation With Anne Carson About Greek Tragedy / Yopie Prins -- Medea In Brazil: Interview With Director Heron Coelho / Cesar Gemelli -- An Interview With Héctor Levy-daniel / María Florencia Nelli -- Charles Mee's (re)making Of Greek Drama / Erin B. Mee -- An Interview With Carey Perloff / Margaret Williamson -- Eclectic Encounters: Staging Greek Tragedy In America, 1973-2009 / Rush Rehm -- The Shock Of Recognition: Nicholas Rudall's Translation Of Greek Drama For The Chicago Stage At Court Theatre / Justine Mcconnell And Patrice Rankine -- In Conversation With Peter Sellars: What Does Greek Tragedy Mean To You? / Avery Willis Hoffman -- The Women And War Project / Peggy Shannon -- Dionysus In 69 In 2009 / Shawn Sides -- Talking Greeks With Derek Walcott / Helen Eastman -- Afterword. Audiences Across The Pond: Oceans Apart Or Shared Experiences? / Lorna Hardwick. Edited By Kathryn Bosher, Fiona Macintosh, Justine Mcconnell, And Patrice Rankine. Includes Bibliographical References And Index. Cover The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas Copyright Dedication Preface Acknowledgments Contents List of Illustrations List of Contributors Note on Nomenclature, Spelling, and Texts Part I Theories and Methods 1 Introduction 2 An Archival Interrogation 3 New Worlds, Old Dreams? Postcolonial Theory and Reception of Greek Drama Part II Shaping American Theater (1800–1900) 4 Grecian Theater in Philadelphia, 1800–1870 5 Thebes in the New World: Revisiting the New York Antigone of 1845 6 Julia Ward Howe’s Hippolytus 7 Professional Tragedy: The Case of Medea in Chicago, 1867 8 Barbarian Queens: Race, Violence, and Antiquity on the Nineteenth-Century United States Stage 9 When Greeks Stand you up, Invite Romans: The Ancient World on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage Part III Modernisms in the Americas (1900–1930) 10 The Migrant Muse: Greek Drama as Feminist Window on American Identity, 1900–1925 11 Iphigenia amongst the Ivies, 1915 12 Treading the Arduous Road to Eleusis, Nationalism, and Feminism in Early Post-World War I Canada: Roy Mitchell’s 1920 The Tr 13 Greek Tragedy and Modern Dance: An Alternative Archaeology? 14 Eugene O’Neill’s Quest for Greek Tragedy Part IV The Living Pasts (1925–1970) 15 Choreographing the Classics, Performing Sexual Dissidence 16 Greek Tragedy in Mexico 17 Moving and Dramatic Athenian Citizenship: Edith Hamilton’s Americanization of Greek Tragedy 18 A New Stage of Laughter for Zora Neale Hurston and Theodore Browne: Lysistrata and the Negro Units of the Federal Theatre P 19 Aristophanic Comedy in American Musical Theater, 1925–1969 20 Cubanizing Greek Drama: José Triana’s Medea in the Mirror (1960) Part V Creative Collisions (1948–1968) 21 Revolutionizing Greek Tragedy in Cuba: Virgilio Piñera’s Electra Garrigó 22 A Brazilian Echo of Antigone’s “Collision”: Tragedy, Clean and Filthy 23 The Darkening of Medea: Geographies of Race, (Dis)Placement, and Identity in Agostinho Olavo’s Além do Rio (Medea) 24 The Frontiers of David Cureses’ La frontera 25 Brothers at War: Aeschylus in Cuba, 1968 and 2007 Part VI The Search for the Omni-AmericaNs (1970s–2013) 26 Metaphor and Modernity: American Themes in Herakles and Dionysus in 69 27 Lee Breuer’s New American Classicism: The Gospel at Colonus’ “Integration Statement” 28 Greek Tragedy, Enslaving or Liberating? The Example of Rita Dove’s The Darker Face of the Earth 29 The Power of Medea’s Sisterhood: Democracy on the Margins in Cherríe Moraga’s The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea 30 August Wilson and Greek Drama: Blackface Minstrelsy, “Spectacle” from Aristotle’s Poetics, and Radio Golf 31 “Aeschylus Got Flow!”: Afrosporic Greek Tragedy and Will Power’s The Seven 32 Making Women Visible: Multiple Antigones on the Colombian Twenty-First-Century Stage 33 Democratic Appropriations: Lysistrata and Political Activism 34 Reclaiming Euripides in Harlem 35 Oedipus Tyrannus in South America 36 Greek Drama on the U.S. West Coast, 1970–2013 37 Performing for Soldiers: Twenty-First-Century Experiments in Greek Theater in the U.S.A. 38 Greek Drama in Canada: Women’s Voices and Minority Views Part VII Practitioner Perspectives 39 On Remixing the Classics and Directing Countee Cullen’s Medea and Law Chavez’s Señora de la pinta: An Interview with Theate 40 This Bird That Never Settles: A Virtual Conversation with Anne Carson about Greek Tragedy 41 Medea in Brazil: Interview with Director Heron Coelho 42 An Interview with Héctor Levy-Daniel 43 Charles Mee’s “(Re)Making” of Greek Drama 44 An Interview with Carey Perloff 45 Eclectic Encounters: Staging Greek Tragedy in America, 1973–2009 46 The Shock of Recognition: Nicholas Rudall’s Translation of Greek Drama for the Chicago Stage at Court Theatre 47 In Conversation with Peter Sellars: What Does Greek Tragedy Mean to You? 48 The Women and War Project 49 Dionysus in 69 in 2009 50 Talking Greeks with Derek Walcott Afterword 51 Audiences across the Pond: Oceans Apart or Shared Experiences? 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