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Playwright Charles Mee (re)made seven ancient Greek dramas into compelling contemporary scripts. This book discusses those plays and Mee's (re)made dramas. Its intent is to guide those who see his plays to understand why they are titled from the Greek versions, how Mee has made the ancient issues relevant to current times, and it posits a new definition of tragedy appropriate for the modern world.

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Karelisa Hartigan (Ph.D. University of Chicago) is Professor Emerita of Classics at the University of Florida, where she taught Greek language, literature and history for 36 years. She has published extensively on Greek drama and the reception of the classical world in contemporary culture; her latest book is Performance and Cure, Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece and Contemporary America. For the past ten years she has been doing improve acting with the Arts-in-Medicine program at the UF hospital and most recently has been involved in bringing improv drama to local veteran associations.

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