Preface List of Figures Notes on Contributors Part1 Around the Globe 1 Appropriation through Gaps Czech Reception of Greek Tragedy in the 19th and the Early 20th Century  Jakub Čechvala 2 Theatre as a Place of Spiritual Contemplation Greek Tragedy at the National Theatre of Prague during Nazi Occupation (1939–1945)  Alena Sarkissian 3 A Glimmer of Hope with Plautus Frejka’s Pseudolus in the National Theatre, Prague, 1942  Eliška Kubartová 4 Aeschylus, Homer, and Greek Ancestors in the Modern Sicilian Theatre  Martina Treu 5 Political Aristophanes on the Italian Contemporary Stage  Maddalena Giovannelli 6 Antigone in Aotearoa Performing Sophocles’ Tragedy in New Zealand  Anastasia Bakogianni 7 Some Thoughts on the Relation between Text and Performance Exploring Textual and Ritual Dynamics in 5th-Century Drama and Modern Stage Productions  Athena Kavoulaki 8 Greek and Roman Drama on the French Stage in the Database ‘Théâtre antique en France’  Romain Piana Part2 Across the Ages 9 About Energy Main Protagonist in the Theatre of Theodoros Terzopoulos  Freddy Decreus 10 Woody Allen on Aristotle on Greek Tragedy The Poetics Meets Hollywood  Dana LaCourse Munteanu 11 Reception Studies and the Case of ‘Euripides and Professor Murray’  Hallie Rebecca Marshall 12 Meeting Artemis Ezra Pound’s Modernism and Euripides’ Greek  Edith Hall 13 The Birds and the Bees Gender in Aristophanic Performance in 19th-Century Cambridge  Peter Swallow 14 Ovid, Dramatic Structure, and Thomas Heywood’s The Brazen Age  C.W. Marshall 15 Double Chorus in Roman Drama  George W.M. Harrison General Index