Abstract
The situation of the Eastern Mediterranean Byzantine world is to an extent uncharted territory in the field of theatrical history. It is only in the past few decades that works attempting (albeit partially) to map the situation in the Byzantine environment have started to appear.
Though yet more new dramatic texts are being discovered, the processing of these texts is complicated due to the specific and demanding requirements the researcher has to meet when presented with them. The essential requirement for analysing these materials is philological competence and knowledge of theatrical history.