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

How can twenty-first-century understanding of audience experiences illuminate core aspects of ancient performance traditions, and how might Greek theatre challenge our modern frameworks? This volume advances discussion across theoretical, affective, and social dimensions of Greek spectatorship. The dynamic nature of dramatic spectatorship captures both the phenomenologically transient and emotionally moving qualities of attending theatre. The term ‘unsettled’ emphasizes spectators’ shifting...