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Erika Fischer-Lichte

Dionysus Resurrected

Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World

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Before the late 1960s, Euripides' The Bacchae had almost no performance record on modern stages. Since then, the play has been staged many times in the United States, Africa, Latin America, Europe and Asia. Drawing parallels between the elements of transition, transformation, and violence in the second half of the Twentieth Century and the plot of The Bacchae, Fischer-Lichte argues that the play's reflection on features identified by modern day viewers as globalization allowed the performance to accomplish what the ancient viewers believed Dionysus, the protagonist, brought about. In this sense, the author contends that Dionysus resurrects as… Mehr

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  • ISBN: 978-1-4051-7578-4
  • EAN: 9781405175784
  • Produktnummer: 15647426
  • Verlag: Wiley
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
  • Seitenangabe: 256 S.
  • Masse: H23.6 cm x B15.9 cm x D1.7 cm 492 g
  • Gewicht: 492

Über den Autor


Erika Fischer-Lichte is Professor of Theatre Studies at the Institut für Theaterwissenschaft at the Freie Universitaet of Berlin and Director of the International Research Centre Interweaving Performance Cultures. She has published extensively on the history of the theatre and on the reception of Greek tragedy. Her most recent publications include Theatre, Sacrifice, Ritual: Exploring Forms of Political Theatre (2005), The Transformative Power of Performance: A New Aesthetics (2008), and Performance and the Politics of Space: Theatre and Topology (edited with Benjamin Wihstutz, 2012).

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