Adapting Greek Tragedy

Vayos Liapis is Professor of Ancient Theatre and Its Reception at the Open University of Cyprus. He is the author of A Commentary on the Rhesus Attributed to Euripides (2012) and co-editor of Greek Tragedy after the Fifth Century (Cambridge, 2018). He is the recipient of the 2018 National Prize for the Translation of Ancient Greek Literature into Modern Greek (Hellenic Ministry of Culture and Sports). Avra Sidiropoulou is Associate Professor of Contemporary Theatre Theory and Practice at the Open University of Cyprus, and Artistic Director of Persona Theatre Company. She is the author of Directions for Directing: Theatre and Method (2018) and Authoring Performance: The Director in Contemporary Theatre (2011). She was nominated for the 2020 Gilder/Coigney International Award by the League of Professional Theatre Women in New York.

• Introduction; Prelude: Adapting Greek Tragedy: A Historical Perspective Vayos Liapis; Part I: Adapting Greek Tragedy: Definitions, Conceptual Foundations, Ethics: 1. Definitions: Adaptation and Related Modalities Katja Krebs; 2. Forsaking the Fidelity Discourse: The Application of Adaptation Peter Meineck; 3. Translation and/as Adaptation Lorna Hardwick; 4. Adaptation as a Love Affair: The Ethics of Directing the Greeks Avra Sidiropoulou; Part II: Adaptation on the Page and on the Stage: Re-inscribing the Greek Classics: 5. Interlude: Speaking Up: Theatre Practitioners on Adapting the Classics; 6. The View from the Archive: Performances of Ancient Tragedy at the National Theatre, 1963–1973 Adam Lecznar; 7. Compromise, Contingency, and Gendered Adaptation: The Case of the Malthouse's Antigone Jane Montgomery Griffiths; 8. Technology, Media and Intermediality in Contemporary Adaptations of Greek Tragedy Peter Campbell; 9. Violence in Adaptations of Greek Tragedy Simon Perris; 10. Adaptations of Greek Tragedies in non-Western Performance Cultures Erika Fischer-Lichte; 11. Cultural Identities: Appropriations of Greek Tragedy in Post-colonial Discourse Elke Steinmeyer; 12. Trapped between Fidelity and Adaptation? On the Reception of Ancient Greek Tragedy in Modern Greece Anastasia Bakogianni; 13. Adaptation and the Transtextual Palimpsest: Anne Carson's Antigonick as a Textual/Visual Hybrid Vayos Liapis.

'… this is a volume that is broad in its aims and encompasses vast swathes of intellectual enquiry, political event, and theatrical activity. It will be especially useful for teachers of Greek tragic reception, and of interest to wider audiences too.' Lucy Jackson, Bryn Mawr Classical Review