Contributor
Kennedy, Rebecca Futo, 1974- editor.
ImprintLeiden ; Boston : Brill, [2018]
Descriptionxix, 634 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Note:Introduction: The Reception of Aeschylus / Rebecca Futo Kennedy -- Part 1. Pre-Modern Receptions -- 1. The Reception of Aeschylus in Sicily / David G. Smith -- 2. The Comedians' Aeschylus / David Rosenbloom -- 3. Aristotle's Reception of Aeschylus: Reserved Without Malice / Dana LaCourse Munteanu -- 4. Aeschylus in the Hellenistic Period / Sebastiana Nervegna -- 5. Aeschylus in the Roman Empire / George W. M. Harrison -- 6. Aeschylus in Byzantium / Christos Simelidis -- Part 2. Modern Receptions -- 7. Aeschylus and Opera / Michael Ewans -- 8. Aeschylus in Germany / Theodore Ziolkowski -- 9. Inglorious Barbarians: Court Intrigue and Military Disaster Strike Xerxes, "The Sick Man of Europe" / Gonda Van Steen -- 10. Transtextual Transformations of Prometheus Bound in Percy Bysshe Shelley's Prometheus Unbound: Prometheus' Gifts to Humankind / Fabien Desset -- 11. Aeschylus and Frankenstein, or The Modern Prometheus, by Mary Shelley / Ana Gonzalez-Rivas Fernandez -- 12. An Aeschylean Waterloo: Responding to War from the Oresteia to Vanity Fair / Barbara Witucki -- 13. Form and Money in Wagner's Ring and Aeschylean Tragedy / Richard Seaford -- 14. Eumenides and Newmenides: Academic Furies in Edwardian Cambridge / Patrick J. Murphy and Fredrick Porcheddu -- 15. The Broadhead Hypothesis: Did Aeschylus Perform Word Repetition in Persians? / Stratos E. Constantinidis -- 16. Persians On French Television: An Opera-Oratorio Echoing the Algerian War / Gabriel Sevilla -- 17. Aeschylus' Oresteia on British Television / Amanda Wrigley -- 18. Orestes on Trial in Africa: Pasolini's Appunti per un'Orestiade Africana and Sissako's Bamako / Tom Hawkins -- 19. Reception of the Plays of Aeschylus in South Africa / Kevin J. Wetmore Jr. -- 20. In Search of Prometheus: Aeschylean Wanderings in Latin America / Jacques A. Bromberg -- 21. Avatars of Aeschylus: O'Neill to Herzog/Golder / Marianne McDonald -- 22. The Overlooked (Greek text not supplied) of Aeschylus' Agamemnon and Stanley Kubrick's The Shining / Geoffrey Bakewell -- 23. "Now Harkonnen Shall Kill Harkonnen": Aeschylus, Dynastic Violence, and Twofold Tragedies in Frank Herbert's Dune / Brett M. Rogers -- 24. "Save Our City": The Curious Absence of Aeschylus in Modern Political Thought / Ariene W. Saxonhouse -- 25. Political Theory in Aeschylean Drama: Ancient Themes and their Contemporary Reception / Larissa Atkison and Ryan K. Balot.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references and index.
Note:Brill's Companion to the Reception of Aeschylus explores the various ways Aeschylus' tragedies have been discussed, parodied, translated, revisioned, adapted, and integrated into other works over the course of the last 2500 years. Immensely popular while alive, Aeschylus' reception begins in his own lifetime. And, while he has not been the most reproduced of the three Attic tragedians on the stage since then, his receptions have transcended genre and crossed to nearly every continent. While still engaging with Aeschylus' theatrical reception, the volume also explores Aeschylus off the stage--in radio, the classroom, television, political theory, philosophy, science fiction and beyond.
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