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The Revisionist Stage: American Directors Reinvent the Classics »
Authors: Amy S. Green, Don B. Wilmeth
ISBN-13: 9780521453431, ISBN-10: 0521453437
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: November 1994
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Author Biography: Amy S. Green
Book Synopsis
Examines adaptations of classic dramatic works by controversial American directors.
Table of Contents
| List of Illustrations | ||
| Preface | ||
| 1 | Reinventing Classic Theatre | 1 |
| 2 | Historical Precedents in Europe and America | 16 |
| 3 | Greek and Roman Plays | 42 |
| Andrei Serban's Fragments of a Greek Trilogy, Richard Schechner's Oedipus (Seneca), and Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus | ||
| 4 | The Plays of Shakespeare | 69 |
| Joseph Papp's "Naked" Hamlet, Robert Woodruff and the Flying Karamazov's The Comedy of Errors, JoAnne Akalaitis's Cymbeline, and Lee Breuer's Lear | ||
| 5 | The Plays of Moliere | 116 |
| Andrei Serban's The Miser, Garland Wright's The Misanthrope and Don Juan, Richard Foreman's Don Juan, Liviu Ciulei's Don Juan, and Lucian Pintilie's Tartuffe | ||
| 6 | Peter Sellars's Mozart - da Ponte Trilogy | 145 |
| Peter Sellars's Don Giovanni, Cosi fan Tutte, and Le Nozze di Figaro | ||
| 7 | The Classics, Postmodernism, and the Question of Coherence | 173 |
| Notes | 183 | |
| Bibliography | 199 | |
| Index | 217 |
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