By Jonathan Bate
Recession is a time for asking primary questions about price. At a time whilst governments are being pressured to make swinging rate reductions in public expenditure, why may still they proceed to speculate public cash investment examine into historic Greek tragedy, literary worth, philosophical conundrums or the aesthetics of layout? Does such study convey "value for funds" and "public benefit"? Such questions became particularly pertinent within the united kingdom lately, within the context of the force by means of executive to instrumentalize examine around the disciplines and the prominence of discussions approximately "economic influence" and "knowledge transfer".
In this ebook a gaggle of uncommon humanities researchers, all operating in Britain, yet publishing study of overseas significance, ponder the general public worth in their self-discipline, utilizing specific learn initiatives as case-studies. Their essays are passionate, occasionally polemical, usually witty and always thought-provoking, protecting various humanities disciplines from theology to structure and from media experiences to anthropology.
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The play is acutely discussed by Oliver Taplin (Taplin 1991). uk) references five earlier performances of Sophocles’ satyr play since its rediscovery – in Germany (1913), Czechoslovakia (1921), Italy (1927), UK (1959), USA (1988). aspx/, accessed 10 July 2010). 4 Some of the more hostile critics of Fram and its rhymes failed to see that Murray’s own verse (or, rather, how it now sounds to us) was being parodied. See, for example, Michael Coveney (Coveney 2008): ‘the tone hovers between trite pantomime couplet and a joltingly overcrowded metrical system’.
For Bosse (as for Harrison), Greek tragedy forces the modern world to confront its demons (Müller-Schöll 2004: 51–3). ’ 27 Notes 1 I owe thanks for helpful conversations and correspondence on ‘Live Classics’ to many, especially Alan Bowman, Alan Davey, Simon Goldhill, Edith Hall, Charlotte Higgins, Ian Ruffell, Peter Stothard, Oliver Taplin and Peter Parsons. 2 There is a complex textual history to this play, and significantly different versions. Tony Harrison, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus (Harrison, 1990) publishes the version of the play first played at Delphi in 1988; the second published edition, in 1991, includes both the version played at Delphi and at the National Theatre ‘revival’ in 1990.
It is, however, in changing interpretations of the ancient texts that research in classics has had most to contribute to Greek drama on stage, and to its power to affect and attract modern and diverse audiences. Research in the classical world is neither a narrowly antiquarian pursuit, nor is it a desperate search for cheap contemporary relevance. At its best, it sets up a dialogue between our own concerns and those of the ancients, prompting new understandings of the ancient world as our concerns change – and vice versa.
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