Title Mapping Medea : revolutions and transfers 1750-1800 / edited by Anna Albrektson and Fiona Macintosh

Published Oxford : Oxford University Press, [2023]

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations Contents Intro -- Halftitle page -- Frontispiece -- Title page -- Copyright page -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- List of Contributors -- 1. Mapping Medea: Revolutions and Transfers 1750-1800 -- Medea at the Hands of Colonial Europe -- The Medea Moment -- The Mapping of Medea -- Part I. Medea in an Expanding Eighteenth-Century World -- 2. Pushing the Boundaries of Operatic Convention and European Identity: Generic and Historical Perspectives on Georg Benda's 1775 Medea -- Tragedy to Melodrama -- Melodrama Burlesqued -- Melodrama in Russia -- 3. Medea's Russian Images on Stage and in Literature: The Politics and Poetics of Female Characters -- Introducing Medea -- Russian Wise Maidens -- Love-struck Medea -- Medea and the Mythology of Power -- Medea in Melodrama and Ballet -- Longepierre's Tragedy -- The Female Century -- Conclusions -- 4. An Imperial Medea: Spain, Portugal, the Colonies -- Early Modern Spanish Medeas -- Between Portugal and Brazil -- Medea in Opera and Popular Musical Entertainments -- Classicizing Medea -- Conclusion -- 5. Inverting the Barbarian: Estrangement and Excess in the Eighteenth-Century Medea -- European Identity Formation and the Barbarian -- Ethics, Ethnicity, and Sensibility -- Barbaric Exchanges in the 1770s and 1780s -- Ethics and the Barbaric Tyrant of the 1770s and 1780s -- The Barbaric Oath in the 1770s and 1780s -- Ostracizing the Barbarian in the 1790s -- Conclusion -- Part II. Local Interpretations and Global Issues: Ontology and Form -- 6. From Hearth to Hades: Breaking Boundaries with Medea and ballet d'action -- Pierre Corneille and the 'Narrowing' of Theatrical Spaces -- Marc-Antoine Charpentier/Thomas Corneille's Médée (1693) -- Noverre, Garrick, and the Shakespearean Sublime -- Noverre's Médée et Jason 7. Shaping Complexity: Medea in the German-Language Theatre of the Eighteenth Century -- The Changing Face of Medea -- German Musical Theatre around 1700: Bressand and Corneille -- Lessing's Marwood and Medea -- Medea and the Aesthetics of Empfindsamkeit: Lessing and Noverre -- A New Genre: Medea Melodrama -- Klinger's Figure of Power -- Conclusion -- 8. Visual Narrative: The Role of Costumes in Noverre's ballet d'action, Médée et Jason -- Drama without Words -- Between Convention and Reform -- Collaborating on Médée et Jason -- Conclusion -- 9. Medea as Infanticidal Mother in the Late Eighteenth-Century Theatre -- The Playwrights' Inventiveness -- Violence that Eludes Censorship -- Conclusion -- Afterthoughts -- 10. Medea-Sorceress or Woman? c. 1750 and Beyond -- Euripides' Demi-Goddess Medea -- From the Demonic to the Aristocratic Medea -- Friedrich Maximilan Klinger's Medea in Korinth -- The Human Medea of the New Century -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index Summary This insightful and varied collection of essays uses rare material from archives across Europe to examine the many stage versions of Medea throughout the late-eighteenth century Notes Also issued in print: 2023 Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index Audience Specialized Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on October 16, 2023) Subject Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) -- Congresses SUBJECT Medea, consort of Aegeus, King of Athens (Mythological character) fast (OCoLC)fst01013568 Subject European drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism European drama -- 18th century -- History and criticism -- Congresses European drama. Literature: history & criticism. Literature. Genre/Form proceedings (reports) Conference papers and proceedings. Criticism, interpretation, etc. Conference papers and proceedings. Actes de congrès. Form Electronic book Author Albrektsen, Anna, editor Macintosh, Fiona, 1959- editor. ISBN 9780191980107 0191980102 9780192884305 0192884301 9780192884299 0192884298

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