Re-embodying and Rethinking Greek and Roman Drama in Modern Times

Alena Sarkissian is a researcher at the Institute of Philosophy in the Czech Academy of Sciences, working at the intersection between Theatre Studies and Classical Philology. Her research focuses on Greek drama and its reception, especially in Byzantium and Czech culture. She is an academic consultant for Czech theatre practitioners staging classical drama.Eliška Kubartová is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Film Studies at Palacký University in Olomouc. Her research interests include ancient Roman theatre and theatre translation; she co-authored the first Czech translation of Plautus’ Curculio and dramaturged its student production. Hallie Marshall is an Associate Professor of Theatre Studies in the Department of Theatre and Film at the University of British Columbia. Her research centres on Theatre History, particularly ancient Greek theatre and its reception in later periods.Contributors are: Anastasia Bakogianni, Jakub Čechvala, Freddy Decreus, Maddalena Giovanelli, Edith Hall, George W. M. Harrison, Athena Kavoulaki, Eliška Kubartová, Dana LaCourse Munteanu , C. W. Marshall, Hallie Marshall, Romain Piana, Alena Sarkissian, Peter Swallow, Martina Treu.

• PrefaceList of FiguresNotes on ContributorsPart1 Around the Globe1 Appropriation through GapsCzech Reception of Greek Tragedy in the 19th and the Early 20th CenturyJakub Čechvala2 Theatre as a Place of Spiritual ContemplationGreek Tragedy at the National Theatre of Prague during Nazi Occupation (1939–1945)Alena Sarkissian3 A Glimmer of Hope with PlautusFrejka’s Pseudolus in the National Theatre, Prague, 1942Eliška Kubartová4 Aeschylus, Homer, and Greek Ancestors in the Modern Sicilian TheatreMartina Treu5 Political Aristophanes on the Italian Contemporary StageMaddalena Giovannelli6 Antigone in AotearoaPerforming Sophocles’ Tragedy in New ZealandAnastasia Bakogianni7 Some Thoughts on the Relation between Text and PerformanceExploring Textual and Ritual Dynamics in 5th-Century Drama and Modern Stage ProductionsAthena Kavoulaki8 Greek and Roman Drama on the French Stage in the Database ‘Théâtre antique en France’Romain PianaPart2 Across the Ages9 About EnergyMain Protagonist in the Theatre of Theodoros TerzopoulosFreddy Decreus10 Woody Allen on Aristotle on Greek TragedyThe Poetics Meets HollywoodDana LaCourse Munteanu11 Reception Studies and the Case of ‘Euripides and Professor Murray’Hallie Rebecca Marshall12 Meeting ArtemisEzra Pound’s Modernism and Euripides’ GreekEdith Hall13 The Birds and the BeesGender in Aristophanic Performance in 19th-Century CambridgePeter Swallow14 Ovid, Dramatic Structure, and Thomas Heywood’s The Brazen AgeC.W. Marshall15 Double Chorus in Roman DramaGeorge W.M. HarrisonGeneral Index