Research Catalog

Title

Medea in performance 1500-2000 / edited by Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh and Oliver Taplin.

Publication

Oxford : Legenda, 2000.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Taplin, Oliver
• Macintosh, Fiona
• Hall, Edith, 1959-
• University of Oxford. European Humanities Research Centre

Description

xiv, 304 p. : ill. (some col.); 22 cm.

Subject

Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) > Drama

Genre/Form

Drama

Note

• 'In July 1998, we organized a conference at Somerville College, Oxford' (Foreword).
• 'List of contributors': p. [xv].

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliography (p. 275-288) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Introduction: The Performer in Performance / Fiona Macintosh -- Medea in the English Renaissance / Diane Purkiss -- Medea on the Eighteenth-Century London Stage / Edith Hall -- Medea Transposed: Burlesque and Gender on the Mid-Victorian Stage / Fiona Macintosh -- Medea è mobile: The Many Faces of Medea in Opera / Marianne McDonald -- Performing Medea; or, Why is Medea a Woman? / Margaret Reynolds -- Between Magic and Realism: Medea on Film / Ian Christie -- Medea in Greece / Platon Mavromoustakos -- Central European Medea / Eva Stehlíková -- The Japanese Presence in Ninagawa's "Medea" / Mae Smethurst - Medea Comes Home / Olga Taxidou -- Medeas on the Archive Database / David Gowen.

ISBN

1900755351

OCLC

• 45900942
• SCSB-11869683

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library