How does a theatrical tradition emerge in the fields of dramatic writing and artistic performance? How can a culture in which theatre played no part in the past create a theatrical tradition in the modern world? How do political and social conditions affect the encounter between cultures, and what role do they play in creating a theatre with a distinctive identity? This volume attempts to answer these and other questions in the first in-depth study of the reception of ancient Greek drama in Israeli theatre over the last 70 years. Exploring how engagement with classical culture has shaped the evolution of Israel's theatrical identity, it draws on both dramatic and aesthetic issues - from mise en scène to 'post dramatic' performance - and offers ground-breaking analysis of a wide range of translations and adaptations of Greek drama, as well as new writing inspired by Greek antiquity. The detailed discussion of how the performances of these works were created and staged at key points in the development of Israeli culture not only sheds new light on the reception of ancient Greek drama in an important theatrical and cultural context, but also offers a new and illuminating perspective on artistic responses to the fateful political, social, and cultural events in Israel's recent history.
"Yaari's book opens a window to Israeli theater for nonspecialists in this field, without any need for prior familiarity with the Hebrew language. It is also a valuable contribution to the widening field of classical reception, showing how this discipline can be a catalyst for invigorating examinations of the politics of cultural and religious identities ... Yaari's research is an invitation to further study how modern Israeli culture identifies itself both within and in contrast to the Mediterranean space, broadly construed, with its European and Arab components coexisting in close proximity." - Abigail Akavia, Classical Philology
"Yaari's monograph is not simply a significant addition for the field of Classical Reception, it is also a remarkable study in its effort to resolve the old tensions between 'Athens' and 'Jerusalem', those two ideological forces of influence in the Jewish national renaissance of modern times ... Yaari's book is a rich and well-written study, which presents Greek drama as a standing cultural apparatus for a post-Brechtian, post-humanist, and post-dramatic era, demonstrating that Israeli theatre treated 'Athens' as the cultural product of the Eros for democracy and transformation." - George Sampatakakis, New Theatre Quarterly
"This well written and well researched work is highly recommended for classists, for historians and sociologists of Israel, and for those interested in the classical tradition and its reception, cross-cultural dialogue, Greek drama in general, and Israeli theater in particular. Yaari has made a truly worthwhile contribution to the field, opening many new trails that warrant further exploration." - David B. Levy, Classical World
"Nurit Yaari's study of the 'clasical tradition' on Israeli stages, appropriately pulished in the Classical Presences series at Oxford University Press, is an exemplary study of a complex and multifaceted cultural encounter between the past and the present: the integration of the classical Greek and Roman legacies into the gradually emerging Israeli theatre culture." - Freddie Rokem, Theatre Research International
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"Yaari's book opens a window to Israeli theater for nonspecialists in this field, without any need for prior familiarity with the Hebrew language. It is also a valuable contribution to the widening field of classical reception, showing how this discipline can be a catalyst for invigorating examinations of the politics of cultural and religious identities ... Yaari's research is an invitation to further study how modern Israeli culture identifies itself both within and in contrast to the Mediterranean space, broadly construed, with its European and Arab components coexisting in close proximity." - Abigail Akavia, Classical Philology
"Yaari's monograph is not simply a significant addition for the field of Classical Reception, it is also a remarkable study in its effort to resolve the old tensions between 'Athens' and 'Jerusalem', those two ideological forces of influence in the Jewish national renaissance of modern times ... Yaari's book is a rich and well-written study, which presents Greek drama as a standing cultural apparatus for a post-Brechtian, post-humanist, and post-dramatic era, demonstrating that Israeli theatre treated 'Athens' as the cultural product of the Eros for democracy and transformation." - George Sampatakakis, New Theatre Quarterly
"This well written and well researched work is highly recommended for classists, for historians and sociologists of Israel, and for those interested in the classical tradition and its reception, cross-cultural dialogue, Greek drama in general, and Israeli theater in particular. Yaari has made a truly worthwhile contribution to the field, opening many new trails that warrant further exploration." - David B. Levy, Classical World
"Nurit Yaari's study of the 'clasical tradition' on Israeli stages, appropriately pulished in the Classical Presences series at Oxford University Press, is an exemplary study of a complex and multifaceted cultural encounter between the past and the present: the integration of the classical Greek and Roman legacies into the gradually emerging Israeli theatre culture." - Freddie Rokem, Theatre Research International
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