„The changing fortunes of The Bacchae, as told inthis engaging book, are almost as dramatic as the play itself. Longneglected, it made an astonishing comeback in the sixties, capturing our world of cultural and religious clashes with uncannyprecision. In these pages, Erika Fischer-Lichte has turned aclassic into a masterwork for our time.“
--Martin Puchner, Harvard University
„There is only one person (Fischer-Lichte) who has theexperience, the knowledge and the perspectives - theoretical, theatrical, political - to write this book. Itsimultaneously illumines the ancient Bacchae and thecontemporary global theatre.“
--Oliver Taplin, Oxford University
"For the first time, performances of The Bacchaeare studied from a world perspective - North, South, East andWest. Fischer-Lichte's pioneering book is illuminated by hernuanced conceptions of ritual."
--Maria Shevtsova, University of London
Dionysus Resurrected
Performances of Euripides' The Bacchae in a Globalizing World
von Erika Fischer-Lichte* Puts forward a lively discussion of the parallels betweentransformational eventsduring the era of the play's revivaland events within the play itself
* The first comparative study to analyse and contextualizeperformances of The Bacchae that took place between 1968 and2009 from the United States, Africa, Latin America, Europe andAsia
* Argues that presentations of the play not only representliminal states but also transfer the spectators into suchstates
* Contends that the play's reflection on various stages ofglobalization render the tragedy a contemporary play
* Establishes the importance of The Bacchae withinEuripides' work as the only extant tragedy in which the godDionysus himself appears, not just as a character but as theprotagonist
