The revisionist stage: American directors reinvent the classics/

Main Author: Green, Amy S.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Cambridge, [England]: Cambridge University Press, c1994
Series:Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama
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245 1 4 |a The revisionist stage:   |b American directors reinvent the classics/  |c Amy S. Green 
260 |a Cambridge, [England]:  |b Cambridge University Press,  |c c1994 
300 |a xii, 226 p. :  |b ill. ;  |c 24 cm. 
490 0 |a Cambridge studies in American theatre and drama 
500 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. 199-216) and index 
500 |a Contents: 1. Reinventing Classic Theatre -- 2. Historical Precedents in Europeand America -- 3. Greek and Roman Plays. Andrei Serban's Fragments of aGreek Trilogy, Richard Schechner's Oedipus (Seneca), and Lee Breuer'sThe Gospel at Colonus -- 4. The Plays of Shakespeare. Joseph Papp's'Naked' Hamlet, Robert Woodruff and the Flying Karamazov's The Comedyof Errors, JoAnne Akalaitis's Cymbeline, and Lee Breuer's Lear -- 5.The Plays of Moliere. Andrei Serban's The Miser, Garland Wright's TheMisanthrope and Don Juan, Richard Foreman's Don Juan, Liviu Ciulei'sDon Juan, and Lucian Pintilie's Tartuffe -- 6. Peter Sellars's Mozart -da Ponte Trilogy. Peter Sellars's Don Giovanni, Cosi fan Tutte, and LeNozze di Figaro -- 7. The Classics, Postmodernism, and the Question ofCoherence. 
650 0 |a Canon (Literature) 
650 0 |a Theater  |x Production and direction 
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