Classicists and theater scholars and practitioners gathered in Oxford, England in September 2007 to investigate whether there is anything distinctive about the intellectual framework that
underlies scholarship on ancient Greek and Roman drama in post-Renaissance performance. Most of the 20 papers here are revised from presentations to that gathering. Their topics include why
Kant is no place to start reception studies, the seductions and challenges of performance archives, whether a Deleuzean philosophy of radical physicality leads to the death of tragedy, generic
ambiguity in modern productions and new versions of Greek tragedy, revising authenticity in staging ancient Mediterranean drama, negotiating translation for the stage, the phenomenology of
performance as a route to reception, and physical performance and the languages of translation. Distributed in the US by International Publishers Marketing (IPM). Annotation 穢2010 Book News,
Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
