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1 online resource (258 pages) : illustrations. Dionysus Resurrected analyzes the global resurgence since the late 1960s of Euripides' The Bacchae. By analyzing and contextualizing these modern day performances, the author reveals striking parallels between transformational events taking place during the era of the play's revival and events within the play itself. Puts forward a lively discussion of the parallels between transformational eventsduring the era of the play's revival and events within the play itselfThe first comparative study to analyse and contextualize performances of The Bacchae that took place between 1968 and 2009 from t. Dionysus Resurrected: Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World; Contents; Acknowledgments; Preface; Introduction; Re-enter Dionysus; The Topicality of The Bacchae; Theories of Sacrificial Ritual in the 1970s; From "Text" to "Performance": A New Theatre Aesthetics; Notes; References; Further Reading; Part I: Festivals of Liberation: Celebrating Communality; Chapter 1: The Birth Ritual of a New Theatre; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 2: Celebrating a Communion Rite?; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 3: Sparagmos and Omophagia; Notes; References. Further ReadingPart II: Renegotiating Cultural Identities; Chapter 4: On the Strangeness and Inaccessibility of the Past; Note; References; Further Reading; Chapter 5: Performing or Contaminating Greekness?; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 6: In Search of New Identities; Notes; References; Part III: Productive Encounter or Destructive Clash of Cultures?; Chapter 7: Dismemberment and the Quest for Wholeness; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 8: Transforming Kathakali; Notes; References; Further Reading; Chapter 9: Beijing Opera Dismembered; Notes; References. Further ReadingEpilogue; Name Index; Subject Index. Erika Fischer-Lichte. Includes bibliographical references and index. Euripides Stage history Euripides Euripides Greek drama Modern presentation DRAMA Ancient, Classical & Medieval Greek drama Modern presentation PA3973.B23 F57 2013eb 882.01 Fischer-Lichte, Erika, author. (DLC) 2013030057 (OCoLC)855779227 9781118609781 1118609786 1405175788 9781405175784 9781118609774 1118609778 1118609751 9781118609750 1306140862 9781306140867 545337 MIL http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118609774 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/book/10.1002/9781118609774 E7B 131128 20171031134456.0 ocn868914503 eng