La violenza “giustificata”: per un’Orestea sudafricana
In Athol Fugard’s Orestes, the reception of the ancient does not flow in a conventional manner, but generates an experimental and anomalous pièce which escapes the imposition of the written text, the definite characterization of the characters, the archetypal heritage from which this pièce starts. F...
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| description | In Athol Fugard’s Orestes, the reception of the ancient does not flow in a conventional manner, but generates an experimental and anomalous pièce which escapes the imposition of the written text, the definite characterization of the characters, the archetypal heritage from which this pièce starts. Fugard blends both the aeschylean trilogy and the Euripides’s Orestes, to create a type of hypertext that frames the dramatic vicissitudes of a white South-African young terrorist. This article investigates the genesis and the structure of the work, putting lights on the thematic and symbolic recurrence of the concepts of violence, justice and myth. Fugard suggests to overcome absurdities and atrocities through dialectical and conscious processes, instead of extremisms or bloody revolutions. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-63d6985365a44b00bec73b0c626a34c52022-12-21T18:13:42ZengUniversity of BolognaAntropologia e Teatro2039-22812017-07-018810.6092/issn.2039-2281/71816495La violenza “giustificata”: per un’Orestea sudafricanaFabio La MantiaIn Athol Fugard’s Orestes, the reception of the ancient does not flow in a conventional manner, but generates an experimental and anomalous pièce which escapes the imposition of the written text, the definite characterization of the characters, the archetypal heritage from which this pièce starts. Fugard blends both the aeschylean trilogy and the Euripides’s Orestes, to create a type of hypertext that frames the dramatic vicissitudes of a white South-African young terrorist. This article investigates the genesis and the structure of the work, putting lights on the thematic and symbolic recurrence of the concepts of violence, justice and myth. Fugard suggests to overcome absurdities and atrocities through dialectical and conscious processes, instead of extremisms or bloody revolutions.https://antropologiaeteatro.unibo.it/article/view/7181 |
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