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Hypertheatre: Contemporary Radical Adaptation of Greek Tragedy
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Hypertheatre: Contemporary Radical Adaptation of Greek Tragedy
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Hypertheatre: Contemporary Radical Adaptation of Greek Tragedy
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The book’s premise is that by breaking drama into constituent parts, revising, reinterpreting and rewriting to create a new, culturally and politically relevant construct, the process of adaptation creates a 'hyperplay', newly repurposed for the contemporary world. This process is explored through a diverse collection of postmodern adaptations of
,
, and
, analysing their adaptive strategies and the evidence of how these remakings reflect the cultures of which they are a part. Central to this study is the idea that each of these adaptations becomes an entirely new play, redefining its central female figures and invoking reconfigurations of femininity which emphasise individual women’s strengths and female solidarity.
Written for scholars of Theatre, Adaptation, Performance Studies, and Literature,
places the Greek classics firmly within a contemporary feminist discourse.