Postmodern Dramaturgy, Premodern Drama
The Global Resurgence of Greek Tragedy Today
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 18988579 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Mark Chou (0000-0001-5142-2172, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2011 |
| Volume | 15 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 131-152 |
| Publication date | 2011-04-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal for Cultural Research (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 1479-7585 • E-ISSN: 1740-1666 |
| Publisher | Informa UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1080/14797585.2011.574053 |
| OpenAlex | W1998706540 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 48 |
Numerous commentators have recently noted that the ancient art form of Greek tragedy has been undergoing something of a worldwide resurgence in popularity. This, they argue, can be attributed to the fact that contemporary societies are no less fertile a stage for tragedy than their ancient Greek antecedent. The objective of this article is to examine whether the resurgence of Greek tragedy possesses the potential to speak, metaphorically or otherwise, to political concerns today as the tragedies of Greece once did. In order to address this question, the article does two things. Firstly, it briefly outlines the political nature of tragic drama in ancient Athens, especially the connection between the political ascendency of tragedy and the rise of democracy. As illustrations of this claim, the article alludes to the political implications surrounding two notable Greek tragedies: Aeschylus' Suppliants and Sophocles' Antigone. Following this, it then makes the case for the political implications of tragic drama in the twentieth and twenty‐first centuries. To do so, it returns to the examples of Suppliants and Antigone to show how Greek tragedy can still be read as a powerful form of political discourse
Aesthetics · Ancient Greek · Art · Drama · Dramaturgy · Greek tragedy · Literature · Political science · Politics · Popularity · Postmodernism · Cultural Studies and Interdisciplinary Research · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · History · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Theatre and Performance Studies
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Dionysus Since 69
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Greek Tragedy and the Modern World
The Origins of Democratic Thinking
Violence and Democracy
Reading Greek Tragedy
Regeneration through violence
The Tragic Vision of Politics
Tragedy and Enlightenment
The Politics of Greek Tragedy
How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today
Reading Greek Tragedy
Greek Tragedy on the American Stage
The Tragedy of Political Theory
Inventing the barbarian
Tragedy and International Relations
The Human Condition
Shattered and Fucked Up and Full of Wreckage
War, liberalism, and modernity
Global Liberal Governance
The Beautiful Nation
Boundaries of Dionysus. Athenian Foundations for the Theory of Tragedy
The Greeks
A Forum on Theatre and Tragedy
The World of Athens
Ancient Sun, Modern Light
The Greeks
Aeschylus as a Political Thinker
Aspects of Athenian Democracy
Interpreting Greek Tragedy
Methods and Nations
Modernity and the holocaust
Nietzsche and the Greeks
Democracy
The Tragedy of Tragedy
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |