Mythological heroes on Czech stages and politics. The case of Phaethon and Antigone

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Výsledek na webu

<a href="https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clad005" target="_blank" >https://doi.org/10.1093/crj/clad005</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/crj/clad005" target="_blank" >10.1093/crj/clad005</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Mythological heroes on Czech stages and politics. The case of Phaethon and Antigone

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

Czech culture and society have abundant experience of repressive regimes and political oppression, as well as censorship and bans on speaking publicly and critically about the political situation. This article focuses on two dramatizations of ancient Greek myth and demonstrates their connection with politics: Phaethon by Otakar Theer (1917) is an expression of rebellion against the bondage of the Czech nation in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, while The Whore from the City of Thebes by Milan Uhde (1967), a paraphrase of Sophocles’ Antigone, is a cynical analysis of the state of civil society in totalitarian communist Czechoslovakia. These plays tried to appeal to the audiences of the time allegorically, using ‘Aesopian language’ and parables. Both reinterpretations of Greek myth are analysed in their historical and cultural context and compared with contemporary adaptations of classical Greek tragedies.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Mythological heroes on Czech stages and politics. The case of Phaethon and Antigone

Popis výsledku anglicky

Czech culture and society have abundant experience of repressive regimes and political oppression, as well as censorship and bans on speaking publicly and critically about the political situation. This article focuses on two dramatizations of ancient Greek myth and demonstrates their connection with politics: Phaethon by Otakar Theer (1917) is an expression of rebellion against the bondage of the Czech nation in the Austro-Hungarian Monarchy, while The Whore from the City of Thebes by Milan Uhde (1967), a paraphrase of Sophocles’ Antigone, is a cynical analysis of the state of civil society in totalitarian communist Czechoslovakia. These plays tried to appeal to the audiences of the time allegorically, using ‘Aesopian language’ and parables. Both reinterpretations of Greek myth are analysed in their historical and cultural context and compared with contemporary adaptations of classical Greek tragedies.

Druh

J_imp - Článek v periodiku v databázi Web of Science

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60206 - Specific literatures

Projekt

—

Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2023

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Classical Receptions Journal

ISSN

1759-5134

e-ISSN

1759-5142

Svazek periodika

15

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

GB - Spojené království Velké Británie a Severního Irska

Počet stran výsledku

18

Strana od-do

172-189

Kód UT WoS článku

000951818300001

EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85159829474