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Paperback. Condition: New. Composed in early imperial Rome by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Stoic philosopher and tutor to the emperor Nero, the tragedy Medea is dominated by the superhuman energy of its protagonist: diva, killer, enchantress, force of nature. Seneca's treatment of the myth covers an episode identical to that of Euripides' Greek version, enabling instructive comparisons to be drawn. Seneca's Medea has challenged and fascinated theatre-makers across cultures and centuries and should be regarded as integral to the classical heritage of European theatre. This companion volume sketches the essentials of Seneca's play and at the same time situates it within an interpretive tradition. It also uses Medea to illustrate key features of Senecan dramaturgy, the way in which language functions as a mode of theatrical representation and the way in which individuals are embedded in their surrounding conditions, resonating dissonantly with the principles of Roman Stoicism. By interweaving some of the play's subsequent receptions, theatrical and textual, into critical analysis of Medea as dramatic poetry, this companion volume will encourage the student to come to grips immediately with the ancient text's inherent multiplicity. In this way, reception theory informs not only the content of the volume but also, fundamentally, the way in which it is presented.…

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Paperback or Softback. Condition: New. Seneca: Medea. Book.

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Paperback. Condition: New. This book argues that touch and movement played a significant role, long overlooked, in generating perceptions of ancient material culture in the late 18th century. At this time the reception of classical antiquity had been transformed. Interactions with material culture - ruins, sculpture, and artefacts - formed the core of this transformation. Some such interactions were proto-archaeological, such as the Dilettanti expeditions to Athens and Asa Minor; others were touristic, seen in the guidebooks consulted by travellers to Rome and the diaries they composed; and others creative, resulting in novels, poetry, and dance performances. Some involved the reproduction of experience in a gallery or museum setting. What all encounters with ancient material culture had in common, however, is their haptic sensory basis.The sense typically associated with the Enlightenment is vision, but this has obscured the equally important contribution made by touch and movement to the way in which a newly materialised Graeco-Roman world was perceived. Kinaesthesia, or the sense of self-movement, is rarely recognised in its own right, but because all encounters with sites and objects are embodied, and all embodiment takes place in motion, this sense is vital to forming more abstract or imaginative impressions. Theories of embodied cognition propose that all intellectual processes are also physical. This book shows how ideas about classical antiquity in the volatile milieu of the late 18th century developed as a result of diverse kinaesthetic relationships. …

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Paperback. Condition: Brand New. 198 pages. 8.25x5.50x0.50 inches. In Stock.

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Hardcover. Condition: Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Fair. 2013 OUP hardcover edition. Light reading wear, stain to top edge else very good condition. From the cover: Choruses, Ancient and Modern examines the ancient Greek chorus and its afterlives in western culture. Choruses, though absolutely central to the social, political, and religious life of ancient Greece, no longer hold the same broad importance in modernity. Still, the attraction of the Greek chorus has proved a strong impetus to reimagining. Artists and thinkers have continually appropriated Greek choruses to their own ends, and these engagements constitute a rich area of the reception of classical antiquity. Exploring the choral tradition from Archaic Greece to the present across a variety of different media, the volume thematically juxtaposes perspectives on choruses to create a dialogue between ancient and modern contexts. Following a substantial introduction, the four parts of the book discuss the place of the chorus within scholarship, aesthetic and philosophical perspectives on the chorus, reflections on absences of the chorus, and the social and communal potential of the chorus. Each section considers antiquity and modernity in counterpoint, at once defamiliarizing ancient contexts of the chorus and defining crucial moments in modern choral traditions. Contents: Introduction: Joshua Billings, Felix Budelmann, and Fiona Macintosh Part I. Scholarship 1. Theorizing the Chorus in Greece: Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi 2. The Greek Chorus: Our German Eyes: Simon Goldhill 3. The Middle Voice: German Classical Scholarship and the Greek Tragic Chorus: Constanze Güthenke 4. Chorus, Song, and Anthropology: Ian Rutherford Part II. Aesthetics 5. Greek Festival Choruses in and out of Context: Felix Budelmann 6. Seneca's Chorus of One: Helen Slaney 7. 'Something like the Choruses of the Ancients': The Coro Stabile and the Chorus in European Opera, 1598-1782: Roger Savage 8. 'An Alien Body'? Choral Autonomy around 1800: Joshua Billings 9. Brechtian Chorality: Martin Revermann Part III. Shadows 10. The Nostalgia of the Male Tragic Chorus: Sheila Murnaghan 11. A 'Senecan' Theatre of Cruelty: Audience, Citizens, and Chorus in Late-Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth-Century French Dramas: Christian Biet 12. Phantom Chorus: Missing Chorality on the French Eighteenth-Century Stage: Cécile Dudouyt 13. Sunk in the 'Mystic Abyss': The 'Choral' Orchestra in Wagner's Music Dramas: Laurence Dreyfus 14. 'How do you solve a problem like the chorus?' Hammerstein's Allegro and the Reception of the Greek Chorus on Broadway: Zachary Dunbar Part IV. Community 15. The Politics of the Mystic Chorus: Richard Seaford 16. Mob, Cabal, or Utopian Commune? The Political Contestation of the Ancient Chorus, 1789-1917: Edith Hall 17. Choruses, Community, and the Corps de Ballet: Fiona Macintosh 18. Chorus and the Vaterland: Greek Tragedy and the Ideology of Choral Performance in Inter-War Germany: Eleftheria Ioannidou 19. Revivals of Choric Theatre as Utopian Visions: Erika Fischer-Lichte 20. Chorus in Contemporary British Theatre: Helen Eastman.…

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Paperback. Condition: New. Composed in early imperial Rome by Lucius Annaeus Seneca, Stoic philosopher and tutor to the emperor Nero, the tragedy Medea is dominated by the superhuman energy of its protagonist: diva, killer, enchantress, force of nature. Seneca's treatment of the myth covers an episode identical to that of Euripides' Greek version, enabling instructive comparisons to be drawn. Seneca's Medea has challenged and fascinated theatre-makers across cultures and centuries and should be regarded as integral to the classical heritage of European theatre. This companion volume sketches the essentials of Seneca's play and at the same time situates it within an interpretive tradition. It also uses Medea to illustrate key features of Senecan dramaturgy, the way in which language functions as a mode of theatrical representation and the way in which individuals are embedded in their surrounding conditions, resonating dissonantly with the principles of Roman Stoicism. By interweaving some of the play's subsequent receptions, theatrical and textual, into critical analysis of Medea as dramatic poetry, this companion volume will encourage the student to come to grips immediately with the ancient text's inherent multiplicity. In this way, reception theory informs not only the content of the volume but also, fundamentally, the way in which it is presented.…

Paperback. Condition: New. This book argues that touch and movement played a significant role, long overlooked, in generating perceptions of ancient material culture in the late 18th century. At this time the reception of classical antiquity had been transformed. Interactions with material culture - ruins, sculpture, and artefacts - formed the core of this transformation. Some such interactions were proto-archaeological, such as the Dilettanti expeditions to Athens and Asa Minor; others were touristic, seen in the guidebooks consulted by travellers to Rome and the diaries they composed; and others creative, resulting in novels, poetry, and dance performances. Some involved the reproduction of experience in a gallery or museum setting. What all encounters with ancient material culture had in common, however, is their haptic sensory basis.The sense typically associated with the Enlightenment is vision, but this has obscured the equally important contribution made by touch and movement to the way in which a newly materialised Graeco-Roman world was perceived. Kinaesthesia, or the sense of self-movement, is rarely recognised in its own right, but because all encounters with sites and objects are embodied, and all embodiment takes place in motion, this sense is vital to forming more abstract or imaginative impressions. Theories of embodied cognition propose that all intellectual processes are also physical. This book shows how ideas about classical antiquity in the volatile milieu of the late 18th century developed as a result of diverse kinaesthetic relationships. …

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