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EPIC PERFORMANCES FROM THE MIDDLE AGES INTO THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Frontispiece.PaperCinemaOdyssey(2012)Poster.APGRDcollection. ©NicRawling. Epic Performances from the Middle Ages into the Twenty-First Century Editedby FIONA MACINTOSH, JUSTINE MCCONNELL, STEPHEN HARRISON, AND CLAIRE KENWARD 1 3 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxford,OX26DP, UnitedKingdom OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwide.Oxfordisaregisteredtrademarkof OxfordUniversityPressintheUKandincertainothercountries ©FionaMacintosh,JustineMcConnell,StephenHarrison, ClaireKenward,andtheseveralcontributors2018 Themoralrightsoftheauthorshavebeenasserted FirstEditionpublishedin2018 Impression:1 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced,storedin aretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans,withoutthe priorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress,orasexpresslypermitted bylaw,bylicenceorundertermsagreedwiththeappropriatereprographics rightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproductionoutsidethescopeofthe aboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment,OxfordUniversityPress,atthe addressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisworkinanyotherform andyoumustimposethissameconditiononanyacquirer PublishedintheUnitedStatesofAmericabyOxfordUniversityPress 198MadisonAvenue,NewYork,NY10016,UnitedStatesofAmerica BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressControlNumber:2018950688 ISBN978 0 19 880421 5 Printedandboundby CPIGroup(UK)Ltd,Croydon,CR04YY LinkstothirdpartywebsitesareprovidedbyOxfordingoodfaithand forinformationonly.Oxforddisclaimsanyresponsibilityforthematerials containedinanythirdpartywebsitereferencedinthiswork. Acknowledgements During the first few years of the new millennium, the Graeco-Roman epics regularlyfeaturedinstaged,musical,dance,operatic,andfilmperformances. Yet there was no systematic study of the long history of epic-inspired per- formancesinvariousmediaacrosspreviousmillennia.Thethree-yearAPGRD Leverhulme-funded ‘Performing Epic’ project, based at the Archive of Per- formances of Greek and Roman Drama (APGRD), University of Oxford, soughttoaddressthislargelyuntoldhistory.¹ Theprojecthasgrownalongtheway,justliketheepicsthatinspiredit,and with this development have come numerous debts. As ever, we are truly grateful to the marvellous team at OUP: to Charlotte Loveridge and Georgie Leighton; and to Tom Perridge, who initially oversaw the commissioning process.Wearealsoindebtedtoourscrupulouscopy-editorRowenaAnketell, toourproofreaderBrianNorth,toourProductionManagerSaranyaJayakumar, and to our outstanding indexer Cheryl Hunston, whose patience and skills haveconsiderablyenhancedthisAPGRDvolume. We wish to thankthe following in particular for their help and support in various ways: Tania Demetriou for kindly giving us advance copy of her forthcoming major study of Homer in the early modern period after other commitmentspreventedherfromcontributingtothevolume;toHelenSlaney andtoSusanneWoffordtoofortheirverystimulatingpapersatthefirstofour workshops.RachaelWhitehasperformedabrillianttaskontheBibliography and done so with characteristic precision and good humour. Huge thanks to Hannah Silverblank, Lily Aaronovitch, Peter Swallow, and Zoe Jenkins for theirhelpincataloguingtheepicmaterial.Wearealsoenormouslygratefulto the Performing Epic Advisory Board members: Edith Hall, Oliver Taplin, Stephe Harrop, Rachel Bryant Davies, Henry Stead, and Marchella Ward. Lastbut by no meansleast,we remainindebtedto all APGRDcolleagues for their ongoing support, and encouragement, not least Peter Brown, Felix Budelmann,ConstanzeGüthenke,NaomiSetchell,andTomWrobel. ¹ <http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/aboutus/research/performingepic>. Contents ListofIllustrations xi ListofContributors xv NoteonNomenclature,Spelling,andTexts xxi I. DEFINING TERMS 1. ‘Epic’Performances:FromBrechttoHomerandBack 3 FionaMacintosh 2. PerformingEpicandReadingHomer:AnAristotelian Perspective 16 BarbaraGraziosi 3. ShakespeareandEpic 31 ColinBurrow 4. TheatreonanEpicScale 46 TimSupple II. CROSSING GENRES 5. EncounteringHomerthroughGreekPlaysin Sixteenth-CenturyEurope 63 TanyaPollard 6. EpicActinginShakespeare’sHamlet 76 DavidWiles 7. ‘Iamthatsamewall;thetruthisso’:Performinga TalefromOvid 90 MarchellaWard 8. MonstersandtheQuestionofInheritanceinEarly ModernFrenchTheatre 103 WesWilliams 9. TheFutureofEpicinCinema:TropesofReproduction inRidleyScott’sPrometheus 119 PantelisMichelakis 10. FromEpictoLyric:AliceOswald’sandBarbaraKöhler’s RefiguringsofHomericEpic 133 GeorginaPaul viii Contents 11. ChoreographingEpic:TheOceanasEpic‘Time-Space’ inHomer,Joyce,andCunningham 149 ArabellaStanger 12. EpicBodies:FilteringthePastandEmbodyingthe Present—APerformer’sPerspective 164 Marie-LouiseCrawley III. FORMAL REFRACTIONS 13. AHarmlessDistemper:AccessingtheClassicalUnderworld inHeywood’sTheSilverAge 181 MargaretKean 14. EpicPoetryintoContemporaryChoreography:Two Twenty-First-CenturyDanceAdaptationsoftheOdyssey 194 TomSapsford 15. VoicingVirgil:DantePerformstheLatinEpic 209 RobinKirkpatrick 16. HomerasImproviser? 228 GraemeBird 17. ‘Nowhearthis’:TextandPerformanceinChristopherLogue’s WarMusic(1959–2011) 250 HenryPower 18. UnfixingEpic:HomericOralityandContemporary Performance 262 StepheHarrop 19. MultimodalTwenty-First-CenturyBards:FromLive PerformancetoAudiobookintheHomericAdaptations ofSimonArmitageandAliceOswald 275 EmilyGreenwood 20. Homer‘ViewedfromtheCorridor’:EpicRefractedin MichaelTippett’sKingPriam 289 EmilyPillinger IV. EMPIRE AND POLITICS 21. InstitutionalReceptions:Camões,Saramago,and theContemporaryPoliticsofTheLusíadsonStage 307 TatianaFaia Contents ix 22. AchillesinFrenchTragedy(1563–1680) 322 TiphaineKarsenti 23. TheSpectacleofConquest:EpicConflictson theSeventeenth-CenturySpanishStage 336 ImogenChoi 24. EpiconStageintheDutchRepublic 351 FrederickNaerebout 25. ‘Marpesiacautes’:VoicingAmazons,EnglandandIreland,1640 361 DeanaRankin 26. AftertheAeneid:AscaniusinEighteenth-CenturyOpera 377 StephenHarrison 27. EpicPerformancethroughInvencãodeOrfeuand AnIliad:TwoInstantiationsofEpicasEmbodimentin theAmericas 389 PatriceRankine 28. PerformingWalcott,PerformingHomer:OmerosonStage andScreen 404 JustineMcConnell V. HIGH AND LOW 29. ‘Ofarmsandtheman’:ThersitesinEarlyModern EnglishDrama 421 ClaireKenward 30. ClassicalEpicandtheLondonFairs,1697–1734 439 EdithHall 31. ClassicalEpicinEarlyMusicalTheatre:TheCaseofKane O’Hara’sMidas 461 HenryStead 32. EpicTransposed:TheRealandtheHyperrealduring theRevolutionaryPeriodinFrance 476 FionaMacintosh 33. SacrilegiousTranslation:TheEpicFlopofFrançoisPonsard’s Ulysse(1852) 493 CécileDudouyt 34. EpicCassandrasinPerformance,1795–1868 508 LauraMonrós-Gaspar

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