Orpheus and Eurydice Revisited: Grief and Grieving in Zinnie Harris’ Meet Me at Dawn

Tuğba Aygan

Makale detayları

Orpheus and Eurydice Revisited: Grief and Grieving in Zinnie Harris’ Meet Me at Dawn

Yazarlar:

Tuğba Aygan

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sanat ve Edebiyat

Dergi:

Litera: Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi Vol.33 Issue 1, pp.53-69

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

4/2023

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001293083

pISSN:

2602-2117

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Özet:

 First immortalised by Virgil in his fourth Georgic ca. 39-30 BC, the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has captured the imaginations of artists for centuries. Conditioned by the age in which they were produced, many songs, plays, poems, and operas have been composed to honour this tragic love story. Among others, British playwright Zinnie Harris, in her 2017 play Meet Me at Dawn, draws her inspiration from this legendary love story. Defying the gender politics of the myth and the time, Harris reframes the characters in a more modern context and constructs both Orpheus and Eurydice as women. Whilst questioning what one would do if they were given another chance to be reunited with a beloved one who died suddenly, the play further explores the themes of bereavement, grief, and grieving by using the mythological love story as an allegorical scaffold. Drawing on Freuds model of bereavement and the KüblerRoss grief cycle, this paper reflects on the embodiment of grief and grieving in the aftermath of a loss as manifested in Meet Me at Dawn arguing that it provides an exegesis of the validity of this particular model.

 First immortalised by Virgil in his fourth Georgic ca. 39-30 BC, the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has captured the imaginations of artists for centuries. Conditioned by the age in which they were produced, many songs, plays, poems, and operas have been composed to honour this tragic love story. Among others, British playwright Zinnie Harris, in her 2017 play Meet Me at Dawn, draws her inspiration from this legendary love story. Defying the gender politics of the myth and the time, Harris reframes the characters in a more modern context and constructs both Orpheus and Eurydice as women. Whilst questioning what one would do if they were given another chance to be reunited with a beloved one who died suddenly, the play further explores the themes of bereavement, grief, and grieving by using the mythological love story as an allegorical scaffold. Drawing on Freuds model of bereavement and the KüblerRoss grief cycle, this paper reflects on the embodiment of grief and grieving in the aftermath of a loss as manifested in Meet Me at Dawn arguing that it provides an exegesis of the validity of this particular model.

 First immortalised by Virgil in his fourth Georgic ca. 39-30 BC, the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has captured the imaginations of artists for centuries. Conditioned by the age in which they were produced, many songs, plays, poems, and operas have been composed to honour this tragic love story. Among others, British playwright Zinnie Harris, in her 2017 play Meet Me at Dawn, draws her inspiration from this legendary love story. Defying the gender politics of the myth and the time, Harris reframes the characters in a more modern context and constructs both Orpheus and Eurydice as women. Whilst questioning what one would do if they were given another chance to be reunited with a beloved one who died suddenly, the play further explores the themes of bereavement, grief, and grieving by using the mythological love story as an allegorical scaffold. Drawing on Freuds model of bereavement and the KüblerRoss grief cycle, this paper reflects on the embodiment of grief and grieving in the aftermath of a loss as manifested in Meet Me at Dawn arguing that it provides an exegesis of the validity of this particular model.

 First immortalised by Virgil in his fourth Georgic ca. 39-30 BC, the myth of Orpheus and Eurydice has captured the imaginations of artists for centuries. Conditioned by the age in which they were produced, many songs, plays, poems, and operas have been composed to honour this tragic love story. Among others, British playwright Zinnie Harris, in her 2017 play Meet Me at Dawn, draws her inspiration from this legendary love story. Defying the gender politics of the myth and the time, Harris reframes the characters in a more modern context and constructs both Orpheus and Eurydice as women. Whilst questioning what one would do if they were given another chance to be reunited with a beloved one who died suddenly, the play further explores the themes of bereavement, grief, and grieving by using the mythological love story as an allegorical scaffold. Drawing on Freuds model of bereavement and the KüblerRoss grief cycle, this paper reflects on the embodiment of grief and grieving in the aftermath of a loss as manifested in Meet Me at Dawn arguing that it provides an exegesis of the validity of this particular model.

Makale detayları

Orpheus and Eurydice Revisited: Grief and Grieving in Zinnie Harris’ Meet Me at Dawn

Yazarlar: Tuğba Aygan

Yayıncı: Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar: Sanat ve Edebiyat

Dergi: Litera: Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi Vol.33 Issue 1, pp.53-69

Belge Tipi: Makale

Yayın Tarihi: 4/2023

Belge Dili: İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.): 2001293083

pISSN: 2602-2117

Meet Me at Dawn

Orpheus and Eurydice

bereavement

grieving

KüblerRoss grief cycle

Sayı

Yazarlar:

Tuğba Aygan

Yayıncı:

Istanbul University

Ana Başlıklar:

Sanat ve Edebiyat

Dergi:

Litera: Dil Edebiyat ve Kültür Araştırmaları Dergisi Vol.33 Issue 1, pp.53-69

Belge Tipi:

Makale

Yayın Tarihi:

4/2023

Belge Dili:

İngilizce

Document ID (Org No.):

2001293083

pISSN:

2602-2117