The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas

The Oxford Handbook of Greek Drama in the Americas is the first edited collection to discuss the performance of Greek drama across the continents and archipelagos of the Americas from the beginning of the nineteenth century to the present. The study and interpretation of the classics have never been restricted by geographical or linguistic boundaries but, in the case of the Americas, long colonial histories have often imposed such boundaries arbitrarily. This volume tracks networks across continents and oceans and uncovers the ways in which the shared histories and practices in the performance arts in the Americas have routinely defied national boundaries. With contributions from classicists, Latin American specialists, theatre and performance theorists, and historians, the Handbook also includes interviews with key writers, including Nobel Laureate Derek Walcott, Charles Mee, and Anne Carson, and leading theatre directors such as Peter Sellars, Carey Perloff, Héctor Daniel-Levy, and Heron Coelho. This richly illustrated volume seeks to define the complex contours of the reception of Greek drama in the Americas, and to articulate how these different engagements - at local, national, or trans-continental levels, as well as across borders - have been distinct both from each other, and from those of Europe and Asia.

1 - Introduction
2 - An Archival Interrogation
3 - New Worlds, Old Dreams? Postcolonial Theory and Reception of Greek Drama
4 - Grecian Theater in Philadelphia, 1800-1870
5 - Thebes in the New World: Revisiting the New York Antigone of 1845
6 - Julia Ward Howe's Hippolytus
7 - Professional Tragedy: The Case of Medea in Chicago, 1867
8 - Barbarian Queens: Race, Violence, and Antiquity on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage
9 - When Greeks Stand You Up, Invite Romans: The Ancient World on the Nineteenth-Century American Stage
10 - The Migrant Muse: Greek Drama as Feminist Window on American Identity, 1900-1925
11 - Iphigenia Amongst the Ivies, 1915
12 - Treading the Arduous Road to Eleusis, Nationalism and Feminism in Early Post-World War I Canada: Roy Mitchell's 1920 The Trojan Women
13 - Greek Theater in Modern Dance: An Alternative Archaeology
14 - Eugene O'Neill's Quest for Greek Tragedy
15 - Choreographing the Classics, Performing Sexual Dissidence
16 - Greek Drama in Mexico
17 - Moving and Dramatic Athenian Citizenship: Edith Hamilton's Americanization of Greek Tragedy
18 - A New Stage of Laughter for Zora Neale Hurston and Theodore Brown: Lysistrata and the Negro Units of the Federal Theatre Project
19 - Aristophanic Comedy in American Musical Theater, 1925-1969
20 - Cubanizing Greek Drama: José Triana's Medea in the Mirror, 1960
21 - Revolutionizing Greek Tragedy in Cuba: Virgilio Piñera's Electra Garrigó, 1948
22 - Alfredo Dias Gomes' O Pagador de promessas and Antigone's Dilemma
23 - The Darkening of Medea: Geographies of Race, (Dis)Placement and Identity in Agostinho Olavo's Além do Rio (Medea)
24 - The Frontiers of David Cureses' La frontera
25 - Brothers at War: Aeschylus in Cuba 1968 and 2007
26 - Metaphor and Modernity: American Themes in Herakles and Dionysus in '69
27 - Lee Breuer's New American Classicism: The Gospel at Colonus's Integration Statement
28 - Afrocentrism or Assimilation: The Case of Rita Dove's The Darker Face of the Earth
29 - The Power of Medea's Sisterhood: America(ns) on the Margins in Cherríe Moraga's The Hungry Woman: A Mexican Medea
30 - August Wilson and Greek Drama: Blackface Minstrelsy, 'Spectacle' from Aristotle's Poetics, and Radio Golf
31 - 'Aeschylus Got Flow!': Afrosporic Greek Tragedy and Will Power's The Seven
32 - Visibility Strategies: Multiple Antigones on the Colombian Twenty-First Century Stage
33 - Democratic Appropriations: Lysistrata and Political Activism
34 - Reclaiming Euripides in Harlem
35 - Oedipus Tyrannus in South America
36 - Greek Drama on the West Coast, 1970-2013
37 - Performing for Soldiers: Twenty-First Century Experiments in Greek Theater in the U.S.
38 - Greek Tragedy in Canada: Women's Voices and Minority Views
39 - Countee Cullen's Medea: Daniel Banks on Adaptation and Change
40 - This Bird That Never Settles: A Virtual Conversation with Anne Carson about Greek Tragedy
41 - An Interview with Heron Coelho
42 - An Interview with Héctor Levy-Daniel
43 - Charles Mee's '(Re)Making' of Greek Drama
45 - An Interview with Carey Perloff
46 - Eclectic Encounters: Staging Greek Tragedy in America, 1973 - 2009
47 - The Shock of Recognition: Nicholas Rudall's Translation of Greek Drama for the Chicago Stage at Court Theatre
48 - In Conversation with Peter Sellars: 'What Does Greek Tragedy Mean to You?'
49 - Women and War
50 - Dionysus in 69 in 2009
51 - Talking Greeks with Derek Walcott
52 - Audiences Across the Pond: Oceans Apart or Shared Experiences?

Kathryn Bosher† was Assistant Professor of Classics at Northwestern University. Fiona Macintosh is Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, Professor in Classical Reception at the University of Oxford. Justine McConnell is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the University of Oxford. Patrice Rankine is Dean for the Arts and Humanities and Professor of Classics at Hope College.