Electra

A Gender Sensitive Study of the Plays Based on the Myth, 2d ed.

Batya Casper (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

229 Seiten

2019
McFarland & Co Inc (Verlag)
978-1-4766-7674-6 (ISBN)

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Explores the influence of the Greek Electra myth on theatre, from Shakespeare's Hamlet - more than a thousand years after the classical Greek period - to the twentieth-century. As we read the plays in this volume, we will question: Are we still locked into theses oppositions? If so, how do they effect the world we live in?

Shakespeare's Hamlet--written 1,000 years after the classical Greek period--follows a narrative pattern similar to that of the Greek Electra myth, and it isn't the only story to do so. We see signs of Electra's influence again in the 20th-century works of Oscar Wilde, Eugene O'Neill and T.S. Eliot, among others.

This revised and updated edition will look more closely at the influence of Electra on popular culture throughout history and the questions it poses regarding oppositions such as logic versus instinct, night versus day and repression versus freedom.

Batya Casper is a retired director and teacher of theater. She lives in Los Angeles, California.

Table of Contents

Preface

Introduction

IPrehistory

Agamemnon, King of Argos

Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers (458 BCE)

Aeschylus: The Eumenides

IISophocles: Electra (409 BCE)

IIIEuripides: Electra (ca. 400 BCE)

Euripides: Orestes (408 BCE)

IVShakespeare: Hamlet (1601)

VElectra: Play of Ambivalence

Oscar Wilde: Salome (1905)

Hugo von Hofmannsthal: Electra (1903)

Richard Strauss: Elektra (1909)

Eugene O’Neill: Mourning Becomes Electra (1931)

Jean Giraudoux: Electra (1937)

Robinson Jeffers: The Tower Beyond Tragedy (1937)

VIJean Paul Sartre: Les Mouches (1942)

Ezra Pound: Electra (1951)

Jack Richardson: The Prodigal (1960)

Adrienne Kennedy: Electra and Orestes (1980)

Heiner Muller: Hamlet-Machine (1984)

VII deleteT. S. Eliot: The Family Reunion (1939)

Sam Shepard: Curse of the Starving Class (1978)

Conclusion

Chapter Notes

Annotated Bibliography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum	01.03.2019
Zusatzinfo	4 photos, notes, bibliography, index
Verlagsort	Jefferson, NC
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	313 g
Themenwelt	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Gender Studies
ISBN-10	1-4766-7674-7 / 1476676747
ISBN-13	978-1-4766-7674-6 / 9781476676746
Zustand	Neuware