Choruses, Ancient and Modern

Contents

• List of Contributors
• List of Illustrations
• Note on Nomenclature, spelling and texts
• Introduction: Choral Fantasies
• Scholarship
• 1 Anastasia-Erasmia Peponi: Theorising the Chorus in Greece
• 2 Simon Goldhill: The Greek Chorus: Our German Eyes
• 3 Constanze Guthenke: The Middle Voice: German Classical Scholarship and the Greek Tragic Chorus
• 4 Ian Rutherford: Chorus, Song, and Anthropology
• Aesthetics
• 5 Felix Budelmann: Greek Festival Choruses in and out of Context
• 6 Helen Slaney: Seneca's Chorus of One
• 7 Roger Savage: Something like the Choruses of the Ancients: the Coro Stabile and the Chorus in European Opera, 1598-1782
• 8 Joshua Billings: An Alien Body? Choral Autonomy around 1800
• 9 Martin Revermann: Brechtian Chorality
• Shadows
• 10 Sheila Murnaghan: The Nostalgia of the Male Tragic Chorus
• 11 Christian Biet: A Senecan Theatre of Cruelty: Audience, Citizens, and Chorus in Late-Sixteenth and Early-Seventeenth-Century French Dramas
• 12 Cecile Dudouyt: Phantom Chorus: Missing Chorality on the French Eighteenth-Century Stage
• 13 Laurence Dreyfus: Sunk in the Mystic Abyss: The Choral Orchestra in Wagner's Music Dramas
• 14 Zachary Dunbar: How do you solve a problem like the chorus? Hammerstein s Allegro and the Reception of the Greek Chorus on Broadway
• Company
• 15 Richard Seaford: The Politics of the Mystic Chorus
• 16 Edith Hall: Mob, Cabal, or Utopian Commune? The Political Contestation of the Ancient Chorus 1789-1917
• 17 Fiona Macintosh: Choruses, Community, and the Corps de Ballet
• 18 Eleftheria Ioannidou: Chorus and the Vaterland: Greek Tragedy and the Ideology of Choral Performance in Inter-War Germany
• 19 Erika Fischer-Lichte: Revivals of Choric Theatre as Utopian Visions
• 20 Helen Eastman: Chorus in Contemporary British Theatre
• Bibliography
• Index