Greek tragedy is currently being performed more frequently than at any time since classical antiquity. This book is the first to address the fundamental question, why has there been so much Greek tragedy in the theatres, opera houses and cinemas of the last three decades? A detailed chronological appendix of production information and lavish illustrations supplement the fourteen essays by an interdisciplinary team of specialists from the worlds of classics, theatre studies, and the professional theatre. They relate the recent appeal of Greek tragedy to social trends, political developments, aesthetic and performative developments, and the intellectual currents of the last three decades, especially multiculturalism, post-colonialism, feminism, post-structuralism, revisions of psychoanalytical models, and secularization. The quality of the contributions is uniformly high ... The range of methods is appealingly wide, providing readers with fascinating material ... Collectively, the volume gives an extremely stimulating up-to-date account of Greek tragedy in the last thirty or forty years ... deserves a wide readership ... The writing is accessible; illustrations are well selected ... index and bibliography are very detailed.