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Olga Taxidou. Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance: Hellenism as Theatricality
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Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance charts the importance of performance to late nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernist experiments while also demonstrating the centrality of Greek tragedy to such experiments. For these artists, Greek theatre, and Greek tragedy in particular, represents the ideal model and form with which to critique the past and renew the future.
Title: Olga Taxidou. Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance: Hellenism as Theatricality
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Greek Tragedy and Modernist Performance charts the importance of performance to late nineteenth- and twentieth-century modernist experiments while also demonstrating the centrality of Greek tragedy to such experiments.
For these artists, Greek theatre, and Greek tragedy in particular, represents the ideal model and form with which to critique the past and renew the future.
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