This is a volume of 15 studies on specific topics of theatre and drama history and theory in the Balkans and the
Eastern Mediterranean. The scientific interest in the culture of this area during the unification process of Europe is
increasing. Seven of these studies are of comparative nature, eight focus on Greece and its European connections in
the field of theatre and drama. The first part includes the following studies:"Locus amoenus turbatus. Reception and
parody of Italian bucolic drama in South-Eastern Europe", "Baroque in South-Eastern European drama", "Jesuit
theatre between Vienna and Istanbul", Greek (and French) theatre productions in Istanbul (1600 - 1900).
Contributions the Turkish theatre history", "Improvised court plays and spectacular processes of Carnival in the
folk culture of the Central Balkans and Greek speaking Mediterranean area", "Dialogical satires in the form of
drama from the Phanar, Moldava and Valachia (1690 - 1820). A secondary group of texts of the pre-revolutionary
Greek theatre", "The Greek Revolution of 1821 on the European stage".
The second part consists of the following studies: "the Nachleben of ancient theatre terminology in Greek
tradition", "Theatrological research on drama texts of the Cretan and Heptanesian theatre (1590 - 1750).
Methodological examples of drama analysis", "Traces of commedia dellarte in Greek theatre of the 18th and 19th
century", "The reception of Goldoni in Greece", "European influences upon the Greek drama in the 19th century. In
South-Eastern European context", "The reception of "Europe" in the Greek theatre 1800 - 1930", "Modernism or
Avantgarde? The Greek drama in the beginning of the 20th century", "Fotos Politis and ancient tragedy. The
production of "Oedipus rex" by the Hellenic Theatre Society in 1919".
Comparative studies in South Eastern Europe and the Eastern Mediterranean, especially in theatre and drama
history, are very rare. Some of these studies are ground-breaking in specific subjects. Exhaustive registers will
bring these studies together thematically, studies which in sum, together with the ones of the first volume, will give
an idea of a future handbook on Southeastern Europe theatre and drama from the Midde Ages up to the 20th
century.