Performing Epic or Telling Tales

by Justine McConnell and Fiona Macintosh

Performing Epic or Telling Tales takes the new millennium as a starting point for an exploration of the turn to narrative in twenty-first-century theatre, which is often also a turn to Graeco-Roman epic. However, the dominant focus of the volume is less on 'what' the recent epic turn in the theatre consists of than 'why' it seems to be so prevalent: this turn is explained with reference not only to the translation and scholarly histories of the epics,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198846584
• ISBN13: 9780198846581
• Release Date: March 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 176 Pages
• Weight: 0.76 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"