Research Catalog

Title

Epic performances from the Middle Ages into the twenty-first century / edited by Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, Stephen Harrison, and Claire Kenward.

Publication

• Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.
• ©2018

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Details

Additional Authors

• Macintosh, Fiona, 1959-
• McConnell, Justine
• Harrison, S. J.
• Kenward, Claire

Description

xx, 643 pages : illustrations, music; 24 cm

Summary

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.--Publisher description.

Subjects

• Stage adaptations
• Epic poetry > History and criticism
• Adaptations
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Drama, Medieval > Modern presentation
• Epic poetry > Adaptations

Genre/Form

• Adaptations.
• Criticism, interpretation, etc.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-618) and index.

Contents

• Defining terms -- Crossing genres -- Formal refractions -- Empire and politics -- High and low.
• 1. 'Epic' performances: from Brecht to Homer and back -- 2. Performing epic and reading Homer: an Aristotelian perspective -- 3. Shakespeare and epic -- 4. Theatre on an epic scale -- 5. Encountering Homer through Greek plays in sixteenth-century Europe -- 6. Epic acting in Shakespeare's Hamlet -- 7. 'I am that same wall; the truth is so': performing a tale from Ovid -- 8. Monsters and the question of inheritance in early modern French theatre -- 9. The future of epic in cinema: tropes of reproduction in Ridley Scott's Prometheus -- 10. From epic to lyric: Alice Oswald's and Barbara Koehler's refigurings of Homeric epic -- 11. Choreographing epic: the ocean as epic 'time-space' in Homer, Joyce, and Cunningham -- 12. Epic bodies: filtering the past and embodying the present - a performer's perspective -- 13. A harmless distemper: accessing the classical underworld in Heywood's The Silver Age - 14. Epic poetry into contemporary choreography: two twenty-first century dance adaptations of the Odyssey -- 15. Voicing Virgil: Dante performs the Latin epic -- 16. Homer as improviser? -- 17. 'Now hear this': text and performance in Christopher Logue's War Music (1959-2011) -- 18. Unfixing epic: Homeric orality and contemporary performance --
• 19. Multimodal twenty-first-century bards: from live performance to audiobook in the Homeric adaptations of Simon Armitage and Alice Oswald -- 20. Homer 'viewed from the corridor': epic refracted in Michael Tippett's King Priam -- 21. Institutional receptions: camoes, Saramago, and the contemporary politics of The Lusiads on stage -- 22. Achilles in French tragedy (1563-1680) -- 23. The spectacle of conquest: epic conflicts on the seventeenth-century Spanish stage -- 24. Epic on Stage in the Dutch Republic -- 25. 'Marpesia cautes': Voicing Amazons, England and Ireland, 1640 -- 26. After the Aeneid: Ascanius in eighteenth-century opera -- 27. Epic performance through Invencao de Orfeu and an Iliad: two instantiations of epic as embodiment in the Americas -- 28. Performing Walcott, performing Homer: Omeros on stage and screen -- 29. 'Of arms and the man': Thersites in early modern English drama -- 30. Classical epic and the London fairs, 1697-1734 -- 31. Classical epic in early musical theatre: the case of Kane O'Hara's Midas -- 32. Epic transposed: the real and the hyperreal during the revolutionary period in France -- 33. Sacrilegious translation: the epic flop of Francois Ponsard's Ulysse (1852) -- 34. Epic Cassandras in performance, 1795-1868 -- 35. 'Of the rage, sing goddess': epic Opera -- 36. Fish, firemen, and Prize fighters: the transformation of the Iliad and Aeneid on the London burlesque stage -- Epilogue: Voices, bodies, silences, and media: Hightened receptivity in epic in performance.

Call Number

JFE 19-1277

ISBN

• 0198804210
• 9780198804215
• 9780192526243
• 0192526243

LCCN

2018950688

OCLC

1024210028

Title

Epic performances from the Middle Ages into the twenty-first century / edited by Fiona Macintosh, Justine McConnell, Stephen Harrison, and Claire Kenward.

Publisher

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2018.

Copyright Date

©2018

Edition

First edition.

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 573-618) and index.

Added Author

Macintosh, Fiona, 1959- editor.

McConnell, Justine, editor.

Harrison, S. J., editor.

Kenward, Claire, editor.

Research Call Number

JFE 19-1277