Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama

Betine van Zyl Smit is Associate Professor of Classics at the University of Nottingham. She has published extensively on the reception of ancient literature in modern literature and on the reception of Greek drama in South Africa.

• Foreword xList of Illustrations xiNotes on Contributors xiiiNote on Nomenclature and Spelling xviiiIntroduction 1Betine van Zyl SmitPart I The Ancient World 111 The Reception of Greek Tragedy from 500 to 323 BC 13Martin Revermann2 Greek Comedy and its Reception, c. 500–323 BC 29Alan H. Sommerstein3 Greek Drama in the Hellenistic World 45Sarah Miles4 Greek Comedy at Rome 63Peter Brown Copyrighted Material5 Roman Tragedy 78Gesine ManuwaldPart II Transition 956 Ancient Drama in the Medieval World 97Carol SymesPart III The Renewal of Ancient Drama 1317 The Reception of Ancient Drama in Renaissance Italy 133Francesca Schironi8 Ancient Drama in the French Renaissance and up to Louis xiv 154Rosie Wyles9 The Reception of Greek Drama in Early Modern England 173Claire KenwardPart IV The Modern and Contemporary World 19910 Greece: A History of Turns, Traditions, and Transformations 201Gonda Van Steen11 The History of Ancient Drama in Modern Italy 221Martina Treu12 The Reception of Greek Theater in France since 1700 238Cécile Dudouyt13 Germany, Austria, and Switzerland 257Anton Bierl14 The Reception of Greek Drama in Belgium and the Netherlands 283Thomas Crombez15 The Reception of Greek Drama in England from the Seventeenth to the Twenty‐First Century 304Betine van Zyl Smit16 Conquering England: Ireland and Greek Tragedy 323Fiona Macintosh17 The Reception of Greek Drama in the Czech Republic 337Eva Stehlíková18 Antigone, Medea, and Civilization and Barbarism in Spanish American History 348Aníbal A. Biglieri19 Greek Drama in the Arab World 364Mohammad Almohanna20 The Reception of Greek Tragedy in Japan 382Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.21 Greek Drama in North America 397Peter Meineck22 Greek Drama in Australia 422Paul Monaghan23 The Reception of Greek Drama in Africa: “A Tradition That Intends to Be Established” 446Barbara Goff24 Greek Drama in Opera 464Michael Ewans25 Filmed Tragedy 486Kenneth MacKinnonReferences 506Index 552