Dionysus since 69: Greek tragedy at the dawn of the third millennium

Abstract

1. Introduction: Why Greek tragedy since the late 1960s? 1. DIONYSUS AND THE SEX WAR 2. Dionysus in '69 3. Bad women: gender politics in late twentieth-century performance and revision of Greek tragedy 4. Heracles as Dr Strangelove and GI Joe: male heroism deconstructed 2. DIONYSUS IN POLITICS 5. Sophocles' Philoctetes, Seamus Heaney's, and some other recent half-rhymes 6. Aeschylus, race, class, and war in the 1990s 7. Greek tragedy in cinema: theatre, politics, history 8. Greek drama and anti-colonialism: decolonising Classics 3. DIONYSUS AND THE AESTHETICS OF PERFORMANCE 9. The use of masks in modern performances of Greek tragedy 10. Greek notes in Samuel Beckett's theatre art 11. Greek Tragedy in late twentieth-century opera 4. DIONYSUS AND THE LIFE OF THE MIND 12. Oedipus in the East End: from Freus to Berkoff 13. Thinking about the origins of theatre in the 1970s 14. The voices we hear 15. Details of productions discussed