Adapting Greek Tragedy

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.