Choruses, Ancient and Modern

Joshua Billings is Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities at Yale University. His research focuses on tragedy, intellectual history, and the classical tradition.Felix Budelmann is Lecturer in Greek Language and Literature at the University of Oxford. He works on Greek literature, especially lyric and tragedy.Fiona Macintosh is Director of the APGRD, Reader in Greek and Roman Drama, University Lecturer in the Reception of Greek and Roman Literature, and a Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford. She is author and editor of numerous books on the reception of Greek drama.

• LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS ; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; NOTE ON NOMENCLATURE, SPELLING AND TEXTS ; INTRODUCTION: CHORAL FANTASIES ; SCHOLARSHIP ; 1. Theorising the Chorus in Greece ; 2. The Greek Chorus: Our German Eyes ; 3. The Middle Voice: German Classical Scholarship and the Greek Tragic Chorus ; 4. Chorus, Song, and Anthropology ; AESTHETICS ; 5. Greek Festival Choruses in and out of Context ; 6. Seneca's Chorus of One ; 7. Something like the Choruses of the Ancients: the Coro Stabile and the Chorus in European Opera, 1598-1782 ; 8. An Alien Body? Choral Autonomy around 1800 ; 9. Brechtian Chorality ; SHADOWS ; 10. The Nostalgia of the Male Tragic Chorus ; 11. A Senecan Theatre of Cruelty: Audience, Citizens, and Chorus in Late-Sixteenth and Early-Seventeenth-Century French Dramas ; 12. Phantom Chorus: Missing Chorality on the French Eighteenth-Century Stage ; 13. Sunk in the Mystic Abyss: The Choral Orchestra in Wagner's Music Dramas ; 14. How do you solve a problem like the chorus? Hammerstein s Allegro and the Reception of the Greek Chorus on Broadway ; COMPANY ; 15. The Politics of the Mystic Chorus ; 16. Mob, Cabal, or Utopian Commune? The Political Contestation of the Ancient Chorus 1789-1917 ; 17. Choruses, Community, and the Corps de Ballet ; 18. Chorus and the Vaterland: Greek Tragedy and the Ideology of Choral Performance in Inter-War Germany ; 19. Revivals of Choric Theatre as Utopian Visions ; 20. Chorus in Contemporary British Theatre ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX

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