A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama

1. Auflage 2025
ISBN: 978-1-119-22682-6
Verlag: Wiley

Buch, Englisch, 552 Seiten

Reihe: HCRZ - Wiley-Blackwell Handbooks to Classical Reception

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day.
* Represents the first volume to offer a complete overview of the reception of ancient drama from antiquity to the present
* Covers the translation, transmission, performance, production, and adaptation of Greek tragedy from the time the plays were first created in ancient Athens through the 21st century
* Features overviews of the history of the reception of Greek drama in most countries of the world
* Includes chapters covering the reception of Greek drama in modern opera and film

Autoren/Hrsg.

Zyl Smit, Betine van

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Griechische & Byzantinische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft Theatergeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Rezeption, literarische Einflüsse und Beziehungen
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Über Autor(innen)

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.