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In memoriam

Karl Galinsky (1942–2024)

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Hercules Performed

The Hero on Stage from the Enlightenment to the Early Twenty-First Century

Series:  Metaforms, Volume: 25
Cover Hercules Performed
E-Book ISBN:
9789004696938
Publisher:
Brill
Print Publication Date:
09 Aug 2024
  • Subjects
    • Art History
      • Drama & Theatre Studies
    • Classical Studies
      • Classical Tradition & Reception Studies
      • Greek & Latin Literature
    • Literature and Cultural Studies
      • Theatre Studies
Front Matter
Preliminary Material
Copyright Page
Dedication
Preface
Acknowledgements
Figures and Table
Notes on Contributors
Introduction Embodying the Hero and His Story
Part 1 Labours
Chapter 1 Sandow the Modern Hercules: or the Twelve Labours of the Class-Conscious Historian of British Classics
Chapter 2 Hercules and the Tragicomic in the Epic Theatre of Dürrenmatt
Chapter 3 ‘Breaking News: Hercules Is the Son of Zeus’: the Chorus in Helen Eastman’s Hercules
Chapter 4 ‘The Moral Madness of the Modern Herakles’: Collage and Fragments in Tony Harrison’s The Labourers of Herakles and the Harrison Archive
Part 2 Madness
Chapter 5 The Madness of Hercules from Euripides to the Renaissance
Chapter 6 Herakles, Medea and the Reality of Filicide
Chapter 7 Herakles in Orbit: the Role of Space in Modern Versions of Euripides’ Herakles
Part 3 Death and Apotheosis
Chapter 8 The Death and Apotheosis of Hercules at the Comédie-Italienne: from Senecan Tragedy to Commedia dell’Arte
Chapter 9 The Sweet Vitality of Dancing Bodies: Classical Embodiment, Modernist Poetics, and Fascist Visions in Sophocles’ Trachiniae at Syracuse in 1933
Chapter 10 Herakles, Sex, Death, and Spin: Sophocles’ Women of Trachis and Its Adaptations
Chapter 11 Directing The Wife of Heracles (2010) for a Contemporary Audience: Footballers, Hairdressers and Dispensing the Poison
Part 4 Setting Hercules to Music
Chapter 12 Hercules and Opera at the Court of Louis XIV: Ercole amante
Chapter 13 Shattered Female Virtue: Dejanira as Depicted in Handel’s Hercules
Chapter 14 ‘I Shall Sing of Herakles’: Writing a Hercules Oratorio for the Twenty-First Century
Chapter 15 Herakles in Twenty-First Century Music
Epilogue
Back Matter
Index

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