Abstract

Initial scholarly research on early Modern Greek drama was largely philological, but also entertained the possibility that these plays had a stage history. Evidence of a stage history for early modern Greek drama came to light in recent years indicating that there was more activity than anyone previously suspected. Evidence for theater performances in early modern Greece is now quite abundant and so are the indirect clues in the texts of the extant plays. The issue of whether each specific extant play was intended for performance or was actually performed has to be addressed for each play separately. That task is beyond the scope of the present essay in which I provide a structured synthesis of much new research that has been reported mainly in Greek over the past 25 years. I also survey all of the extant plays of early modern Greek drama in order to make a case for their performability and stage history.

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