Greek Tragedy, Education, and Theatre Practices in the UK Classics Ecology (Classics In and Out of the Academy)

Through a series of case studies, this book explores the interrelations among Greek tragedy, theatre practices, and education in the United Kingdom.This is situated within what the volume proposes as ‘the Classics ecology’. The term ‘ecology’, frequently used in Theatre Studies, understands Classics as a field of cultural production dependent on shared knowledge circulated via formal and informal networks, which operate on the basis of mutually beneficial exchange.Productions of Greek tragedy may be influenced by members of the team studying Classics subjects at school or university, or reading popular works of Classical scholarship, or else by working with an academic consultant.All of these have some degree of connection to academic Classics, albeit filtered through different lenses, creating a network of mutual influence and benefit (the ecology).In this way, theatrical productions of Greek drama may, in the long term, influence Classics as an academic discipline, and certainly cont