Postdramatic Tragedies (Classical Presences)

Postdramatic Tragedies explores the history of classical tragedy within postdramatic theatre from 1995 to 2015, drawing on a range of case studies of productions from the United Kingdom, the United States, Australia, and continental Europe, including both widely known productions and works largely unknown in Anglophone scholarship.

Emma Cole, Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Classics, University of Bristol

Emma Cole is a Lecturer in Liberal Arts and Classics at the University of Bristol. She received her doctorate from UCL in 2015 and since then has published widely on the reception of Greek and Roman literature (primarily tragedy and epic) in contemporary theatre, including the co-edited collection Adapting Translation for the Stage (with Geraldine Brodie; Routledge, 2017), and chapters and articles on the work of Katie Mitchell (2015), Martin Crimp (2016), and Sarah Kane (2017). From 2019-2021 she is completing an AHRC leadership fellowship, during which she will undertake a project investigating immersivity and the classics with a focus on British theatre company Punchdrunk.