A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama

622 Pages·2016·5.854 MB·English

by  Betine van Zyl Smit (ed.)

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama
Wiley Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception
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A Handbook to the Reception
of Greek Drama
Edited by
Betine van Zyl Smit
This edition first published 2016
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Library of Congress Cataloging‐in‐Publication Data
Names: Smit, Betine van Zyl, editor.
Title: A handbook to the reception of Greek drama / edited by Betine van Zyl Smit.
Other titles: Wiley Blackwell handbooks to classical reception.
Description: Chichester, West Sussex : John Wiley & Sons, Inc., 2016. |
Series: Wiley-Blackwell handbooks to classical reception series
Identifiers: LCCN 2015047421 | ISBN 9781118347751 (cloth)
Subjects: LCSH: Greek drama–Appreciation. | Greek drama–History and criticism.
Classification: LCC PA3133 .H35 2016 | DDC 882/.0109–dc23 LC record available at
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Cover image: © Tristram Kenton, by Euripides’ Bacchai at the National.
Set in 11/13pt Dante by SPi Global, Pondicherry, India
1 2016
Figure 0.1 Irene Papas and Costa Kazakos as Clytaemnestra and Agamemnon in Iphigenia
(1976) directed by Michael Cacoyannis. Source: Greek Film Centre/The Kobal Collection.
Courtesy of The Picture Desk.

Contents
Foreword x
List of Illustrations xi
Notes on Contributors xiii
Note on Nomenclature and Spelling xviii
Introduction 1
Betine van Zyl Smit
Part I The Ancient World 11
1 The Reception of Greek Tragedy from 500 to 323 BC 13
Martin Revermann
2 Greek Comedy and its Reception, c. 500–323 BC 29
Alan H. Sommerstein
3 Greek Drama in the Hellenistic World 45
Sarah Miles
4 Greek Comedy at Rome 63
Peter Brown
5 Roman Tragedy 78
Gesine Manuwald
Part II Transition 95
6 Ancient Drama in the Medieval World 97
Carol Symes
viii Contents
Part III The Renewal of Ancient Drama 131
7 The Reception of Ancient Drama in Renaissance Italy 133
Francesca Schironi
8 Ancient Drama in the French Renaissance and up to Louis XIV 154
Rosie Wyles
9 The Reception of Greek Drama in Early Modern England 173
Claire Kenward
Part IV The Modern and Contemporary World 199
10 Greece: A History of Turns, Traditions, and Transformations 201
Gonda Van Steen
11 The History of Ancient Drama in Modern Italy 221
Martina Treu
12 The Reception of Greek Theater in France since 1700 238
Cécile Dudouyt
13 Germany, Austria, and Switzerland 257
Anton Bierl
14 The Reception of Greek Drama in Belgium and the Netherlands 283
Thomas Crombez
15 The Reception of Greek Drama in England from
the Seventeenth to the Twenty‐First Century 304
Betine van Zyl Smit
16 Conquering England: Ireland and Greek Tragedy 323
Fiona Macintosh
17 The Reception of Greek Drama in the Czech Republic 337
Eva Stehlíková
18 Antigone, Medea, and Civilization and Barbarism
in Spanish American History 348
Aníbal A. Biglieri
19 Greek Drama in the Arab World 364
Mohammad Almohanna
20 The Reception of Greek Tragedy in Japan 382
Kevin J. Wetmore, Jr.
21 Greek Drama in North America 397
Peter Meineck