Rush Rehm
Biographic Data
| ID | 1306345 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rush Rehm |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rush |
| FAMILY NAME | Rehm |
| SIGNATURE | REHM R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Stanford University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 73 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1985 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy
The link between weddings and death--as found in dramas ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Lorca's Blood Wedding--plays a central role in the action of many Greek tragedies. Female characters such as Kassandra, Antigone, and Helen enact and refer to significant parts of wedding and funeral rites, but often in a twisted fashion. Over time the pressure of dramatic events causes the distinctions between weddings and funerals to disappear. In this book…
Aeschylus in the Balance: Weighing Corpses and the Problem of Translation
Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre
Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre, a revised edition of Greek Tragic Theatre (1992), is intended for those interested in how Greek tragedy works. By analysing the way the plays were performed in fifth-century Athens, Rush Rehm encourages classicists, actors, and directors to approach Greek tragedy by considering its original context
Drama Aeschylus
Ritual in Sophocles
'If You are a Woman’: Theatrical Womanizing in Sophocles’ Antigone and Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part …
Sophocles on Fire: To Pur in Philoctetes
Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World
Greek Tragic Theatre
Emphasizing the political nature of Greek tragedy, as theatre of, by and for the polis, Rush Rehm characterizes Athens as a performance culture; one in which the theatre stood alongside other public forums as a place to confront matters of import. In treating the various social, religious and practical aspects of tragic production, he shows how these elements promoted a vision of the theatre as integral to the life of the city - a theatre focusse…
The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy
Is "space" a thing, a container, an abstraction, a metaphor, or a social construct? This much is certain: space is part and parcel of the theater, of what it is and how it works. In The Play of Space , noted classicist-director Rush Rehm offers a strikingly original approach to the spatial parameters of Greek tragedy as performed in the open-air theater of Dionysus. Emphasizing the interplay between natural place and fictional setting, between th…
The play of space: Spatial transformation in Greek tragedy
Public Spaces, Private Voices: Euripides’ Suppliant Women and Sophokles’ Elektra
I recently have emerged from a long theatrical engagement with Euripides’ Suppliant Women, a play radically different from Sophokles’ Elektra. In using my discussion of the former as a way into the latter, I hope to gain some “perspective by incongruity,” to use Kenneth Burke’s term for a mode of analysis that privileges difference and the tangential over perceived (or argued) common ground.1 I have discovered no heretofore undetected influences …
Greek Tragic Theatre
Bloody Poetry
Curse of the Starving Class
Oresteia Trilogy
The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy
Is "space" a thing, a container, an abstraction, a metaphor, or a social construct? This much is certain: space is part and parcel of the theater, of what it is and how it works. In The Play of Space , noted classicist-director Rush Rehm offers a strikingly original approach to the spatial parameters of Greek tragedy as performed in the open-air theater of Dionysus. Emphasizing the interplay between natural place and fictional setting, between th…
Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy
The link between weddings and death--as found in dramas ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Lorca's Blood Wedding--plays a central role in the action of many Greek tragedies. Female characters such as Kassandra, Antigone, and Helen enact and refer to significant parts of wedding and funeral rites, but often in a twisted fashion. Over time the pressure of dramatic events causes the distinctions between weddings and funerals to disappear. In this book…
Greek Tragic Theatre
Emphasizing the political nature of Greek tragedy, as theatre of, by and for the polis, Rush Rehm characterizes Athens as a performance culture; one in which the theatre stood alongside other public forums as a place to confront matters of import. In treating the various social, religious and practical aspects of tragic production, he shows how these elements promoted a vision of the theatre as integral to the life of the city - a theatre focusse…
Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre
Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre, a revised edition of Greek Tragic Theatre (1992), is intended for those interested in how Greek tragedy works. By analysing the way the plays were performed in fifth-century Athens, Rush Rehm encourages classicists, actors, and directors to approach Greek tragedy by considering its original context
Oresteia Trilogy
Curse of the Starving Class
Bloody Poetry
Public Spaces, Private Voices: Euripides’ Suppliant Women and Sophokles’ Elektra
I recently have emerged from a long theatrical engagement with Euripides’ Suppliant Women, a play radically different from Sophokles’ Elektra. In using my discussion of the former as a way into the latter, I hope to gain some “perspective by incongruity,” to use Kenneth Burke’s term for a mode of analysis that privileges difference and the tangential over perceived (or argued) common ground.1 I have discovered no heretofore undetected influences …
Greek Tragic Theatre
The Play of Space: Spatial Transformation in Greek Tragedy
Is "space" a thing, a container, an abstraction, a metaphor, or a social construct? This much is certain: space is part and parcel of the theater, of what it is and how it works. In The Play of Space , noted classicist-director Rush Rehm offers a strikingly original approach to the spatial parameters of Greek tragedy as performed in the open-air theater of Dionysus. Emphasizing the interplay between natural place and fictional setting, between th…
The play of space: Spatial transformation in Greek tragedy
Greek Tragic Theatre
Emphasizing the political nature of Greek tragedy, as theatre of, by and for the polis, Rush Rehm characterizes Athens as a performance culture; one in which the theatre stood alongside other public forums as a place to confront matters of import. In treating the various social, religious and practical aspects of tragic production, he shows how these elements promoted a vision of the theatre as integral to the life of the city - a theatre focusse…
Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedy and the Modern World
Sophocles on Fire: To Pur in Philoctetes
'If You are a Woman’: Theatrical Womanizing in Sophocles’ Antigone and Fugard, Kani, and Ntshona's The Island
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre
This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire and beyond, this 2007 Companion covers many aspects of these broad presentational societies. Dramatic performances that are text-based form only one part …
Drama Aeschylus
Ritual in Sophocles
Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre
Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre, a revised edition of Greek Tragic Theatre (1992), is intended for those interested in how Greek tragedy works. By analysing the way the plays were performed in fifth-century Athens, Rush Rehm encourages classicists, actors, and directors to approach Greek tragedy by considering its original context
Aeschylus in the Balance: Weighing Corpses and the Problem of Translation
Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy
The link between weddings and death--as found in dramas ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Lorca's Blood Wedding--plays a central role in the action of many Greek tragedies. Female characters such as Kassandra, Antigone, and Helen enact and refer to significant parts of wedding and funeral rites, but often in a twisted fashion. Over time the pressure of dramatic events causes the distinctions between weddings and funerals to disappear. In this book…
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