{"product_id":"performing-epic-or-telling-tales-hardcover-1","title":"Performing Epic or Telling Tales - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eFiona Macintosh\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eJustine McConnell\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePerforming Epic or Telling Tales\u003c\/em\u003e takes the new millennium as a starting point for an exploration of the turn to narrative in twenty-first-century theatre, which is often also a turn to Graeco-Roman epic. However, the dominant focus of the volume is less on 'what' the recent epic turn in the theatre consists of than 'why' it seems to be so prevalent: this turn is explained with reference not only to the translation and scholarly histories of the epics, but also to earlier performance traditions and, notably, to recent theoretical debates relating to text-based 'drama' and performance based 'theatre'. \u003cbr\u003e What is perhaps most remarkable about this epic turn is not simply the sheer number of outstanding performances that it has produced; it is also that recent practice appears to have outstripped much theoretical discussion about theatre. In chapters ranging from spoken word performances to ballet, from the use of machines and technology to performances that make space for voices occluded by the ancient epics, \u003cem\u003ePerforming Epic or Telling Tales\u003c\/em\u003e seeks to contextualize and explain the 'narrative'\/storytelling (re-)turn in recent live performances - a turn that regularly entails engagement with ancient Graeco-Roman epics, which have long provided poets, playwrights, artists, and theatre makers with a storehouse of rich, often perceived as 'raw', material. Refigured and refracted for the modern era, the epics of ancient Greece and Rome are found to be particularly revealing, and particularly 'telling' of the contemporary wider cultural sphere.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFiona Macintosh, \u003cem\u003eProfessor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), and Fellow of St Hilda's College, University of Oxford\u003c\/em\u003e, Justine McConnell, \u003cem\u003eLecturer in Comparative Literature, King's College London\u003c\/em\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eFiona Macintosh is Professor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), and Fellow of St Hilda's College at the University of Oxford. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eDying Acts: Death in Ancient Greek and Modern Irish Tragic Drama\u003c\/em\u003e (Cork University Press, 1994), \u003cem\u003eGreek Tragedy and the British Theatre, 1660-1914\u003c\/em\u003e (with Edith Hall; OUP, 2005), and \u003cem\u003eSophocles: \u003c\/em\u003e Oedipus Tyrannus (CUP, 2009), and has also edited numerous APGRD volumes, including most recently \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas\u003c\/em\u003e (with Kathryn Bosher, Justine McConnell, and Patrice Rankine; OUP, 2015), \u003cem\u003eEpic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/em\u003e (with Justine McConnell, Stephen Harrison, and Claire Kenward; OUP, 2018), and \u003cem\u003eSeamus Heaney and the Classics: Bann Valley Muses\u003c\/em\u003e (with Stephen Harrison and Helen Eastman; OUP, 2019). \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJustine McConnell is Lecturer in Comparative Literature at King's College London. She is the author of \u003cem\u003eBlack Odysseys: The Homeric\u003c\/em\u003e Odyssey \u003cem\u003ein the African Diaspora since 1939\u003c\/em\u003e (OUP, 2013), and co-editor of four volumes: \u003cem\u003eAncient Slavery and Abolition: From Hobbes to Hollywood\u003c\/em\u003e (with Edith Hall and Richard Alston; OUP, 2011), \u003cem\u003eThe Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas\u003c\/em\u003e (with Kathryn Bosher, Fiona Macintosh, and Patrice Rankine; OUP, 2015), \u003cem\u003eAncient Greek Myth in World Fiction since 1989\u003c\/em\u003e (with Edith Hall; Bloomsbury, 2016), and \u003cem\u003eEpic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century\u003c\/em\u003e (with Fiona Macintosh, Stephen Harrison, and Claire Kenward; OUP, 2018).\u003cbr\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 176\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.44 x 8.5 x 5.5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e March 26, 2020\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47219837796601,"sku":"9780198846581","price":171.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/UUJMQXRnaHZYOVV0OC9iemVGa3hHdz09_6790a9a7-4774-42b8-8f3b-2d03831cd0d6.webp?v=1768170358","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/performing-epic-or-telling-tales-hardcover-1","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}