Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance - (Edinburgh Critical Studies in Modernism, Drama and Performan) by Olga Taxidou (Hardcover)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br><p>This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance.</p><p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p>This book examines the ways the encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in the modernist experiments in performance. Through a series of events / instances / poses that engage visual, literary and performing arts, the modernist love/hate relationship with classical Greek tragedy is read as contributing to a modernist notion of theatricality, one that follows a double motion, revising both our understanding of Greek tragedy and of modernism itself. Isadora Duncan, Edward Gordon Craig, T.S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, H. D, and Bertolt Brecht and their various, sometimes successful sometimes failed experiments in creating a modernist aesthetic in performing, dancing, translating, designing Greek tragedies, sometimes for the stage and sometimes for the page, are presented as radical experiments in and gestures towards the autonomy of performance. In the process the artists of the theatre themselves - the actor, the designer, the director, the playwright - are reconfigured and given a lineage and genealogy, through this modernist revision of tragedy and the tragic not as as a philosophical or philological tradition, but as a performance practice. </p><p/><br></br><p><b> From the Back Cover </b></p></br></br>Examines the centrality of Greek tragedy for modernist performance This book explores how encounters between modernist theatre makers and Greek tragedy were constitutive in modernist experiments in performance. It analyses the experiments of Isadora Duncan, Edward Gordon Craig, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, W. B. Yeats, H. D., and Bertolt Brecht in creating a modernist aesthetic in performing, dancing, translating, and designing Greek tragedies, sometimes for the stage and sometimes for the page. The book proposes a modernist aesthetic of Greek tragedy based on Hellenism as theatricality that radically revises the philosophical discourses of tragedy. Olga Taxidou is Professor of Drama and Performance Studies at the University of Edinburgh.<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p>Olga Taxidou is Professor of Drama and Performance Studies at the University of Edinburgh. She has published extensively on modernism and performance, on the work of Edward Gordon Craig and on relationships between Greek tragedy and the philosophies of modernity. Her works include <i>Modernism and Performance: Jarry to Brecht</i> (2007); <i>Tragedy, Modernity and Mourning</i> (2004); <i>The Mask: a Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig</i> (1998, 2002). She is co-editor with Vassiliki Kolocotroni of <i>The Edinburgh Dictionary of Modernism</i> (2018, pk, 2020) and with Vassiliki Kolocotroni and Jane Goldman, <i>Modernism: an Anthology of Sources and Documents</i> (1998, 2000). She has held Visiting Professorships at New York University. She writes adaptations of Greek tragedies; her <i>Medea</i> was recently directed by Lee Breuer with Maude Mitchell and produced by Mabou Mines theatre company in New York (2018).<p>
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