Overview

Antigone on the Contemporary World Stage is the first book to analyse what happens to Sophocles' play as it is adapted and (re)produced around the world, and the first to focus specifically on Antigone in performance. The essays, by an international gathering of noted scholars from a wide range of disciplines, highlight the numerous ways in which social, political, historical, and cultural contexts transform the material, how artists and audiences in diverse societies including Argentina, The Congo, Finland, Haiti, India, Japan, and the United States interact with it, and the variety of issues it has been used to address.

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Author:   Erin B. Mee (Assistant Professor, Swarthmore College) ,  Helene P. Foley (Professor of Classics, Barnard College, Columbia University)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press
Imprint:   Oxford University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 16.20cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.70cm
Weight:   0.960kg
ISBN:  

9780199586196

ISBN 10:   0199586195
Pages:   496
Publication Date:   16 June 2011
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

1: Erin B. Mee & Helene P. Foley: Introduction: Mobilizing Antigone I. Antigone in Antiquity 2: Edith Hall: Antigone and the Internationalization of Theatre in Antiquity II. An Ancient Greek Play? 3: Moira Fradinger: An Argentine Tradition 4: Fiona Macintosh: Irish Antigone and Burying the Dead III. Cultural Freedom 5: Erin B. Mee: The Fight for Regional Autonomy Through Regional Culture: Antigone in Manipur, NE India 6: Moira Fradinger: Danbala's Daughter: Felix Morisseau-Leroy's Antigon 7: Dongshin Chang: Antigone Inculturated in Tainan of Southern Taiwan 8: Cobina Gillitt: How the Fish Swims in Dirty Water: Antigone in Indonesia IV. Antigone and Human Rights 9: Serap Erincin: Performing Rebellion: Eurydice's Cry in Turkey 10: Dave Hunsaker: `You should have listened instead of mocking the spirits': Yup'ik Antigone in the Arctic 11: Marc Robinson: Declaring and Rethinking Solidarity: Antigone in Cracow V. Individual vs. Collective 12: Mae J. Smethurst: The Ku Na'uka Theatre Company's Antigone in Tokyo 13: Gonda Van Steen: 'Suspect always, like the truth': The Antigone of Aris Alexandrou on the Urban Stage of Thessaloniki, 2003 VI. Antigone as Dissident 14: Mark Seamon: Antigone for Young Audiences: A Protest Parable 15: Dongshin Chang: Democracy at War: Antigone: Insurgency in Toronto VII. Cultural Memory 16: Edward Ziter: No Grave in the Earth: Antigone's Emigration and Arab Circulations 17: Martina Treu: Never Too Late: Antigone in a German WWII Cemetery in the Italian Appennines Mountains 18: Barbara Goff & Michael Simpson: Voice from the Black Box: Sylvain Bemba's Black Wedding Candles for Blessed Antigone VIII. Sophocles vs. Anouilh 19: Nehad Selaiha: Antigone in Egypt 20: Helene P. Foley: Millennial Antigone in the US: Anouilh Revisited 21: Lorna Hardwick: Antigone's Journey : From Athens to Edinburgh, via Paris and Tbilisi 22: Hana Worthen: `Humanism', Scenography, Ideology: Antigone at the Finnish National Theatre, 1968

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Author Information

Erin B. Mee is Assistant Professor and Acting Chair in the Department of Theater at Swarthmore College. Helene Foley is Professor of Classics at Barnard College.

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