This volume focuses on the adaptation of Greek tragedy between 1970 and 2005 in order to interrogate the relationship between tragedy and postmodernism; analysis of a range of adaptations from this period demonstrates intertextual engagements with prototype texts that have much in common with the main ideas expressed in poststructuralist thought.

• Frontmatter


• Author's Note


• 0: Introduction: Tragic (Trans)formations: Greek Tragedy and Postmodernism


• 1: Tragedy and Modern Critical Debate


• 2: Viewing through the Frames of Tragedy


• 3: Tragic Absences and Metatheatrical Performances


• 4: From Author-God to Textual Communion


• 5: Textual Fragments and Sexual Politics


• 6: Conclusion


• Endmatter


• Bibliography


• Index

Eleftheria Ioannidou is a Lecturer in Theatre/Performance at the University of Groningen in the Netherlands. She previously held a Humboldt Research Fellowship at the Freie Universität, Berlin from 2010 until 2012 and a lectureship in Drama and Theatre Arts at the University of Birmingham from 2012 until 2016. She studied theatre in Athens and at Royal Holloway, London, and read for a doctorate at the University of Oxford, working on the adaptation of Greek tragic texts and postmodernism. Her research is concerned with the reception of Greek tragedy in twentieth-century theatre and theory, with a particular focus in her current work on the performance of Greek tragedy and the use of ancient theatre spaces under fascist regimes in inter-war Europe.