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- ISBN 9780192884190
- Weight: 590g
- Dimensions: 162 x 241mm
- Publication Date: 25 Sep 2023
- Publisher: Oxford University Press
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
- Language: English
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The late-eighteenth century witnessed multiple Medeas take to the stages of Europe, in the Americas, and across the Russian empire. Performances took place in Moscow and São Paulo, in London and Lisbon, in Gotha, Stuttgart, and Venice. This lively collection of essays examines the various reasons why Medea, the ancient mother who killed her own children, attracted the attention of authors, audiences, actors, and rulers in Europe and its dominions during the pivotal period 1750 to 1800, and to what effects.
As a migrant and iconoclast, Medea crosses a number of eighteenth-century borders: linguistic, cultural, national, temporal, spatial, aesthetic, ethical, and generic. Moreover, the fact that late-eighteenth-century playwrights, poets, composers, and choreographers all turned to one of the most problematic characters of Greco-Roman antiquity offers a unique opportunity to examine the remarkable flexibility of the reception process itself. Medea therefore functions as an intriguing case study, reflecting a wider context of cultural and political change within Europe and its colonies in the late-eighteenth century.
By drawing together eighteenth-century specialists working across multiple languages and disciplines with the reception perspective of classical scholars, this volume brings much rare material from a range of archives across continental Europe to critical attention for the first time. Mapping Medea shows how the eighteenth century made Medea modern, and Medea helped to shape modern performance.
Anna Albrektson (FKA Cullhed) is Professor of Literature at Stockholm University. She has published on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century European poetics, and Swedish sentimental literature. Her current research concerns ecocriticism and Swedish literature, 1780-1840. Her project 'Moving Medea: The Transcultural stage in the Eighteenth Century' was funded by the Swedish Foundation for Humanities and Social Sciences. Albrektson is a former President of the Swedish Society for Eighteenth-Century Studies.
Fiona Macintosh is Professor of Classical Reception, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), and Fellow of St Hilda's College, University of Oxford. She is the author of Dying Acts (1994), Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre 1660-1914 (OUP, 2005--with Edith Hall), Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannus (2009), and Performing Epic or Telling Tales (OUP, 2020--with Justine McConnell). She has edited nine APGRD volumes, most recently Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century (OUP, 2018) and Seamus Heaney and the Classics (OUP, 2019).
