Opening Performance: Closing Texts? [From: Essays in Criticism, Vol. 45, April 1995, No. 2]. F. W. Bateson Memorial Lecture. / A Quarterly Journal of Literary Critiscism.

Taplin, Oliver:

Published by Oxford University Press, 1995

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pp. 93-120. From the library of Prof. Wolfgang Haase, long-time editor of ANRW and the International Journal of the Classical Tradition (IJCT). - With dedication by the author to W. Haase. - Author's name handwritten on cover, cover very lightly rubbed, otherwise a good, clean copy. - From the text: I AM GRATEFUL to this communal celebration of the memory of Freddy Bateson for prompting me to review the kind of work I did on Greek tragedy in the 1970s in the light of more recent disparagements and developments, and to make comparisons with Shakespearean studies which reveal instructive similarities and differences. I shall ask whether we are stuck on a hermeneutic underground train on the Circle Line between theatricality and textuality, and how far ignorance, or a lack of certainty, invalidates performance criticism, before going on to practise some methodologically more self-aware performance criticism on the handing over of babies in Oedipus the King and The Winters Tale, and ending with some ideas about audiences. I am spurred on by Batesons call for a strong sense of fact, and by his expectation of social relevance, challengingly glossed in the Editorial Note to the first issue of Essays in Criticism in these words: as far as possible the literary problem must not be divorced from the problems of group-living, in the widest sense, that lie behind it. - Wikipedia: Oliver Taplin, FBA (born 2 August 1943) is a retired British academic and classicist. He was a fellow of Magdalen College and Professor of Classical Languages and Literature at the University of Oxford. He holds a DPhil from Oxford University. Sprache: Englisch Gewicht in Gramm: 550 Reprint. Stapled brochure in paper cover.

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• Title: Opening Performance: Closing Texts? [From: Essays in Criticism, Vol. 45, April 1995, No. 2]. F. W. Bateson Memorial Lecture. / A Quarterly Journal of Literary Critiscism.
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 1995
• Language: English
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Gut
• Weight: 550 grams
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
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