Euripides: Electra

Inbunden, Engelska, 2020

AvRush Rehm,Thomas Harrison

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This new introduction to Euripides' fascinating interpretation of the story of Electra and her brother Orestes emphasizes its theatricality, showing how captivating the play remains to this day. Electra poses many challenges for those drawn to Greek tragedy – students, scholars, actors, directors, stage designers, readers and audiences. Rush Rehm addresses the most important questions about the play: its shift in tone between tragedy and humour; why Euripides arranged the plot as he did; issues of class and gender; the credibility of the gods and heroes, and the power of the myths that keep their stories alive. A series of concise and engaging chapters explore the functions of the characters and chorus, and how their roles change over the course of the play; the language and imagery that affects the audience's response to the events on stage; the themes at work in the tragedy, and how Euripides forges them into a coherent theatrical experience; the later reception of the play, and how an array of writers, directors and filmmakers have interpreted the original.Euripides’ Electra has much to say to us in our contemporary world. This thorough, richly informed introduction challenges our understanding of what Greek tragedy was and what it can offer modern theatre, perhaps its most valuable legacy.

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Utgivningsdatum2020-12-10
Mått138 x 216 x undefined mm
Vikt376 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieCompanions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
Antal sidor200
FörlagBloomsbury Publishing PLC
ISBN9781350095670

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Rush Rehm is Professor of Theater and Performance Studies and Classics at Stanford University, USA, and Artistic Director of Stanford Repertory Theater. He is the author of The Oresteia: A Theatre Version (1978), Greek Tragic Theatre (1992, revised as Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre, 2016), Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Weddings and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy (1994), The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy (2002), and Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World (2004). He has worked professionally in the theatre as an actor and director for many years.

Introduction1. Theatrical and Performance Background2. What Happens and How: The Unfolding of Euripides' Electra3. Euripides and Myth: Reflecting and Re-Fashioning Tradition4. Language5. Characters and Actors6. Props and Costumes, Bodies and Corpses7. Gender and Sex, Children and Childbirth8. Highs and Lows: Class Issues in Electra9. Gods and Mortals10. AfterlifeConclusionGlossaryGuide to Further ReadingNotesBibliographyIndex

Rush Rehm does a fine job of making Euripides’ complicated and unsettling play more appreciable and enjoyable, ... This volume will prove accessible as a study-guide for students who know little of Greek theatre, but also contains plenty of meaty information for their teachers to savour. I recommend this volume not just for students studying the text in translation, but for anyone considering a performance or rehearsed reading of Euripides’ play.