Modern Greek Theatre: A Quest for Hellenism (review)

Abstract

With Modern Greek Theatre: A Quest for Hellenism, Stratos Constantinidis contributes a handsome and readable volume to the growing number of book-length studies in English on modern Greek drama. He deserves ample credit for covering innovative—in addition to representative—plays from the last two centuries. He links plays by Greek female dramatists to better known works by European and Greek male authors. He situates the discussion of the forty plays that he selected in a coherent ideological framework, and makes a compelling argument for the recovery and rediscovery of Modern Greek theater.