Surviving Greek Tragedy

<p><i>Surviving Greek Tragedy</i> is a history of the physical survival to the present day of the thirty-two extant tragedies of Aeschylus Sophocles and Euripides. Beginning with the first revival of the plays in the fourth century BC it charts the course of their transmission down the centuries as they passed through the hands of actors readers scholars schoolteachers monks publishers translators and theatre directors. <p/>Over the course of this 2400-year period the plays were at different times performed copied quoted emended excerpted analysed taught translated censored adapted or merely left to moulder in a library as each successive culture charged with their safe-keeping saw fit. In the last thirty years Greek tragedy has become the medium through which most people encounter the classical heritage and in the book Garland gives extensive coverage to modern stagings of the plays all over the world taking this fascinating story right up to the present. <p/>Fully illustrated with images from all the periods under discussion--from Greek vase paintings to Deborah Warner's production of Medea at the Queen's Theatre London.</p>