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Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Introduction 1 chapter one. Greek Tragedy Finds an American Audience 27 1. Setting the Stage 28 2. American Theater Makes Greek Tragedy Its own 42 chapter two. Making Total Theater in America: Choreography and Music 76 1. Hellenic Influences on the Development of American Modern Dance 80 2. American Gesamtkunstwerke 99 3. Musical Theater 107 4. Visual Choreography in Robert Wilson’s Alcestis 116 chapter three. Democratizing Greek Tragedy 122 1. Antigone and Politics in the nineteenth Century: The Boston 1890 Antigone 125 2. Performance Groups in the 1960s–1970s: Brecht’s Antigone by The Living Theatre 132 3. The 1980s and Beyond: Peter Sellars’s Persians, Ajax, and Children of Heracles 138 4. Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound in the United States: From the Threat of Apocalypse to Communal Reconciliation 154 chapter four. Reenvisioning the Hero: American Oedipus 160 1. oedipus as Scapegoat 162 2. Plagues 170 3. Theban Cycles 175 4. Deconstructing Fatality 179 5. Abandonment 183 chapter five. Reimagining Medea as American Other 190 1. Setting the Stage: nineteenth-Century Medea 193 2. Medea as Social Critic from the Mid-1930s to the Late 1940s 200 3. Medea as Ethnic other from the 1970s to the Present 210 4. Medea’s Divided Self: Drag and Cross-Dressed Performances 224 Epilogue 229 Appendix A. Professional Productions and new Versions of Sophocles’ and Euripides’ Electras 239 Appendix B. Professional Productions and new Versions of Antigone 249 Appendix C. Professional Productions and new Versions of Aeschylus’s Persians, Sophocles’ Ajax, and Aeschylus’s Prometheus Bound 259 Appendix D. Professional Productions and new Versions of Oedipus Tyrannus 265 Appendix E. Professional Productions and new Versions of Euripides’ Medea 277 Appendix F. Professional Productions and new Versions of Euripides’ Iphigeneia in Aulis and Iphigeneia in Tauris 295 Appendix G. other Professional Productions and new Versions 303 Notes 309 References 343 Index 363 ...

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