Alison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama and Director of the Shakespeare Programme at Lancaster University, UK and Vassiliki Markidou is an Assistant Professor in English Literature and Culture at the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Athens, Greece.

A fascinating collection that brilliantly teases out the tension between the order and authority of a classical Greece and the very different status and nature of a Greece under Ottoman rule.

• Introduction, Alison Findlay and Vassiliki Markidou1. The Comedy of Errors and ‘farthest Greece’, Kent Cartwright2. Embodying Greece in Elizabethan England: Venus and Adonis and Love’s Labour’s Lost, Liz Oakley-Brown3. Greece ‘digested in a play’: Consuming Greek Heroism in The School of Abuse and Troilus and Cressida, Efterpi Mitsi4. ‘All’s with me meet that I can fashion fit’: Physis and Nomos in King Lear, Nic Panagopoulo5. Hospitality, Friendship and Republicanism in Timon of Athens, John Drakakis6. ’To take our imagination / From bourn to bourn, region to region’: The Politics of Greek Topographies in Pericles, Vassiliki Markidou7. Reshaping Athens in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen, Alison Findlay8. A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Modern Athens, Mara YanniSelected Bibliography

Alison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama and Director of the Shakespeare Programme at Lancaster University, UK and Vassiliki Markidou is an Assistant Professor in English Literature and Culture at the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Athens, Greece.

A fascinating collection that brilliantly teases out the tension between the order and authority of a classical Greece and the very different status and nature of a Greece under Ottoman rule.

• Introduction, Alison Findlay and Vassiliki Markidou1. The Comedy of Errors and ‘farthest Greece’, Kent Cartwright2. Embodying Greece in Elizabethan England: Venus and Adonis and Love’s Labour’s Lost, Liz Oakley-Brown3. Greece ‘digested in a play’: Consuming Greek Heroism in The School of Abuse and Troilus and Cressida, Efterpi Mitsi4. ‘All’s with me meet that I can fashion fit’: Physis and Nomos in King Lear, Nic Panagopoulo5. Hospitality, Friendship and Republicanism in Timon of Athens, John Drakakis6. ’To take our imagination / From bourn to bourn, region to region’: The Politics of Greek Topographies in Pericles, Vassiliki Markidou7. Reshaping Athens in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen, Alison Findlay8. A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Modern Athens, Mara YanniSelected Bibliography

Alison Findlay is Professor of Renaissance Drama and Director of the Shakespeare Programme at Lancaster University, UK and Vassiliki Markidou is an Assistant Professor in English Literature and Culture at the Faculty of English Language and Literature, University of Athens, Greece.

A fascinating collection that brilliantly teases out the tension between the order and authority of a classical Greece and the very different status and nature of a Greece under Ottoman rule.

• Introduction, Alison Findlay and Vassiliki Markidou1. The Comedy of Errors and ‘farthest Greece’, Kent Cartwright2. Embodying Greece in Elizabethan England: Venus and Adonis and Love’s Labour’s Lost, Liz Oakley-Brown3. Greece ‘digested in a play’: Consuming Greek Heroism in The School of Abuse and Troilus and Cressida, Efterpi Mitsi4. ‘All’s with me meet that I can fashion fit’: Physis and Nomos in King Lear, Nic Panagopoulo5. Hospitality, Friendship and Republicanism in Timon of Athens, John Drakakis6. ’To take our imagination / From bourn to bourn, region to region’: The Politics of Greek Topographies in Pericles, Vassiliki Markidou7. Reshaping Athens in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and The Two Noble Kinsmen, Alison Findlay8. A Midsummer Night’s Dream in Modern Athens, Mara YanniSelected Bibliography