Unsettled Dynamics: Emotion, Cognition, and Audience Engagement in the Ancient Greek Theatre

How can twenty-first-century understandings of audience experience illuminate essential aspects of ancient performance traditions, and how might Greek theatre challenge modern interpretative frameworks in return? This volume maps the unsettled dynamics of Greek spectatorship across theoretical, affective, and social domains. “Dynamic” captures both the transient, phenomenological quality of theatrical experience and its emotional force, while “unsettled” foregrounds spectators’ shifting cog...