Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tradgedy - Couverture rigide

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0413771423 ISBN 13 : 9780413771421

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 2002

Synopsis

New essays on ancient Greek classics from Ireland's greatest living dramatists and academics


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That so many Irish playwrights should return to the Greek classics can not really be a surprise. Drama in Ireland is still a means of exploring the issues of family and state; of gender, class and race; of the oppressors and the oppressed. It is political in the broad sense in which the Greeks understood the word, involving everyone - immediate but concentrated through parallel and parable.

This collection of provocative essays reveals how some of the great Irish poets and dramatists, of the past and present, have drawn on Greek myths and used these stories, which have travelled across three thousand years, to bring new insights on the world in which we now live.

Including essays from, amongst others, Athol Fugard, Seamus Heaney and Tom Paulin Amid Our Troubles looks at the work of such writers as Marina Carr, Brian Friel, Brendan Kennelly, Frank McGuinness and W. B. Yeats.

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A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

J. Michael Walton has published and edited seven books on classical theatre history and has nine translations of Euripides plays in print, many on the Methuen Drama list. He is Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Hull where he taught from 1965 to 2002. While there he directed numerous plays and taught courses in Classical Theatre, Masks and Puppets, Russian Theatre, American Theatre, Nineteenth and Twentieth Century Theatre, Directing and Acting.

MARIANNE MCDONALD is Professor of Theatre and Classics at the University of California, San Diego, and a member of the Royal Irish Academy. She was a Fulbright professor in 1999 and in addition to her post at UCSD, is adjunct professor at Trinity College Dublin and a fellow at the National University of Ireland. With over 140 publications, she is the author of Terms for Happiness in Euripides, Euripides in Cinema, Ancient Sun/Modern Light, and Star Myths.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0413771423
• ISBN 13: 9780413771421
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 300
• Éditeur: Walton J. Michael, McDonald Marianne
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