摘要：Over the last twenty years, Reception Studies has increasingly demonstrated the scholarly
value of Greek drama in performance as an historicist indicator: a snapshot of temporal values
and social mores. Successive generations have adapted and appropriated classical sources,
moulding and manipulating the material to create their own culturally specific hybrids. What we
find in each production and in each adaptation is the result of centuries of encrustation; a new
shell covering ancient innards, recreated in an ever-renewable form. As the work of Hall,
Macintosh, Hardwick et al. has demonstrated so significantly, modern performance of Greek
drama can hold up a mirror both to nature and to the culture of its production, reflecting the
politics and preoccupations of its age.
