Book Details
Orange Code:32060
Paperback:762 pages
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1. Regicide, Restoration, and the ‘English’ Oedipus2. Iphigenia and the Glorious Revolution3. Greek Tragedy as She-Tragedy4. James Thomson’s Tragedies of Opposition5. Euripides’ Ion, Coram’s Foundlings, and Lord Hardwicke’s Marriage Act6. Eighteenth-Century Electra7. Caractacus at Colonus8. Revolutionary Oedipuses9. Greek Tragedy in Late Georgian Reading10. Ruins and Rebels11. Talfourd’s Ancient Greeks in the Theatre of Reform12. Antigone with Consequences13. The Ideology of Classical Burlesque14. Medea and Mid-Victorian Marriage Legislation15. Page versus Stage: Greek Tragedy, the Academy, and the Popular Theatre16. London’s Greek Plays in the 1880s: George Warr and Social Philhellenism17. The Shavian Euripides and the Euripidean Shaw: Greek Tragedy and the New Drama18. Greek Tragedy and the Cosmopolitan Ideal
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This lavishly illustrated book offers the first full, interdisciplinary investigation of the historical evidence for the presence of ancient Greek tragedy in the post-Restoration British theatre, where it reached a much wider audience--including women--than had access to the original texts. Archival research has excavated substantial amounts of new material, both visual and literary, which is presented in chronological order. But the fundamental aim is to explain why Greek tragedy, which played an elite role in the curricula of largely conservative schools and universities, was magnetically attractive to political radicals, progressive theatre professionals, and to the aesthetic avant-garde. All Greek has been translated, and the book will be essential reading for anyone interested in Greek tragedy, the reception of ancient Greece and Rome, theatre history, British social history, English studies, or comparative literature.
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