Edith Hall, Amanda Wrigley (ed.), Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds, and Frogs

Edith Hall, Amanda Wrigley (ed.), Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds, and Frogs, London - Oxford: Legenda, 2007, xx-390p.

Isbn 13 (ean): 9781904350613

Recension par Lee T. Pearcy (The Episcopal Academy and Bryn Mawr College) dans Bryn Mawr Classical Review: 2008.11.33

Présentation de l'éditeur:

Flying to Heaven to demand an end to war, building Cloudcuckooland in the sky, descending to Hades to retrieve a dead tragedian - such were the cosmic missions on which Aristophanes, the father of comedy, sent his heroes of the classical Athenian stage. The wit, intellectual bravura, political clout and sheer imaginative power of Aristophanes' quest dramas have profoundly influenced humorous literature and satire, but this volume, which originated at an international conference held at the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University in 2004, is the first interdisciplinary study of their seminal contribution to the evolution of comic performance. Interdisciplinary essays by specialists in Classics, Theatre, and Modern Literatures trace the international performance history of Aristophanic comedy, and its implication in aesthetic and political controversies, from antiquity to the twenty-first century. The story encompasses Jonson's satire, Cromwell's Ireland, German classicism, British Imperial India, censorship scandals in France, Greece and South Africa, Brechtian experiments in East Berlin, and musical theatre from Gilbert and Sullivan to Stephen Sondheim.

Edith Hall is Professor of Classics and Drama at Royal Holloway, University of London, and Co-Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. Amanda Wrigley is Researcher at the Archive for the Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at the University of Oxford.

Edith Hall, "Introduction: Aristophanic Laughter across the Centuries"
Ewen Bowie, "The Ups and Downs of Aristophanic Travel"
Matthew Steggle, "Aristophanes in Early Modern England"
Edith Hall, "The English-Speaking Aristophanes, 1650-1914"
Rosie Wyles, "Publication as Intervention: Aristophanes in 1659"
Charalampos Orfanos, "Revolutionary Aristophanes?"
Phiroze Vasunia, "Aristophanes' Wealth and Dalpatram's Lakshmi"
Amanda Wrigley, "Aristophanes Revitalized! Music and Spectacle on the
Academic Stage"
Gonda van Steen, "From Scandal to Success Story: Aristophanes' Birds
as Staged by Karolos Koun"
Angeliki Varakis' "The Use of Masks in Koun's Stage Interpretations of
Birds, Frogs, and Peace"
Bernd Seidensticker, "'Aristophanes is Back!' Peter Hacks's Adaptation
of Peace"
Mary-Kay Gamel, "Sondheim Floats Frogs"
Betine van Zyl Smit, "Freeing Aristophanes in South Africa: From High
Culture to Contemporary Satire"
Malika Bastin-Hammou, "Aristophanes' Peace on the Twentieth-Century
French Stage: From Political Statement to Artistic Failure"
Martina Treu, "Poetry and Politics, Advice and Abuse: The Aristophanic
Chorus on the Italian Stage"
Francesca Schironi, "A Poet without 'Gravity': Aristophanes on the
Italian Stage"
Sean O'Brien, "A Version of The Birds in Two Productions"
Michael Silk, "Translating/Transposing Aristophanes"
Vasiliki Giannopoulou, "Aristophanes in Translation before 1920"