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Offers full-text cover-to-cover access to this classic reference work. CLC provides detailed profiles of novelists, playwrights, and other writers, and includes excerpts of published criticism of their works. Also includes topical essays from annual yearbooks. Covers authors who are alive, or who died after 12/31/1959. Publication of CLC began in 1973 and is ongoing.
Studies of Classical Influences on Literature
Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds by Lorna Hardwick (Editor); Carol Gillespie (Editor)
Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for creating cultural identities that blend the old and the new. Nobel prize-winners such as Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney have rewritten classical material in their own cultural idioms. These developments are explored in this collection of essays by international scholars. Includes four chapter on writings about Antigone
The Classics in the American Theater of the 1960s and Early 1970s by Marianthe Colakis
This book traces modern versions and adaptations of Greek tragedies in the recent past. The 1960s were interested the recreation of the power in Greek tragedy by re-introducing its supposed ritual origins. Plays discussed include: Antigone by The Living Theatre, The Prodigal by Jack Richardson, Prometheus Bound by Robert Lowell, Heracles by Archibald MacLeish, Dionysus in '69 by The Performance Group and The Orphan by David Rabe.
Greek Mythic Heroines in Brazilian Literature and Performance by Tereza Virgínia Ribeiro Barbosa (Volume Editor)
This volume surveys the reception of Greek myths - including Antigone, Medea, and the Trojan cycle - in Brazilian literature and the stage. The collection addresses the work of many innovative authors, such as Jorge Andrade and Nelson Rodrigues, who are influential in this specific area of classical reception and well known by modern audiences.
Greeks and Romans on the Latin American Stage by Rosa Andújar (Editor)
The first comprehensive treatment in English of the rich and varied afterlife of classical drama across Latin America, this volume explores the myriad ways in which ancient Greek and Roman texts have been adapted, invoked and re-worked in notable modern theatrical works, while also paying particular attention to the national and local context of each play. Several essays concern the figure of Antigone.
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