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Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (Hardcover)
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Greek and Roman epic poetry has always provided creative artists in
the modern world with a rich storehouse of themes. Tim Supple and
Simon Reade's 1999 stage adaptation of Ted Hughes' Tales from Ovid
for the RSC heralded a new lease of life for receptions of the
genre, and it now routinely provides raw material for the
performance repertoire of both major cultural institutions and
emergent, experimental theatre companies. This volume represents
the first systematic attempt to chart the afterlife of epic in
modern performance traditions, with chapters covering not only a
significant chronological span, but also ranging widely across both
place and genre, analysing lyric, film, dance, and opera from
Europe to Asia and the Americas. What emerges most clearly is how
anxieties about the ability to write epic in the early modern
world, together with the ancient precedent of Greek tragedy's
reworking of epic material, explain its migration to the theatre.
This move, though, was not without problems, as epic encountered
the barriers imposed by neo-classicists, who sought to restrict
serious theatre to a narrowly defined reality that precluded its
broad sweeps across time and place. In many instances in recent
years, the fact that the Homeric epics were composed orally has
rendered reinvention not only legitimate, but also deeply
appropriate, opening up a range of forms and traditions within
which epic themes and structures may be explored. Drawing on the
expertise of specialists from the fields of classical studies,
English and comparative literature, modern languages, music, dance,
and theatre and performance studies, as well as from practitioners
within the creative industries, the volume is able to offer an
unprecedented modern and dynamic study of 'epic' content and form
across myriad diverse performance arenas.
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