This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance.
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- 1 INTRODUCTION: 'WHAT'S HECUBA TO HIM, OR HE TO HECUBA?' -- 2 ISADORA DUNCAN, EDWARD GORDON CRAIG AND THE DREAM OF AN IMPOSSIBLE THEATRE -- 3 POETIC DRAMA: THEATRICALITY, PERFORMABILITY AND TRANSLATION -- 4 H.D.: FEET, HANDS AND HIEROGLYPHS -- 5 EPIC, TRAGIC, DRAMATIC THEATRE AND THE BRECHTIAN PROJECT -- 6 AFTERWORD: (NO) MORE MASTERPIECES -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX
