Shelf Reserve (Newcomb Reading Room)
Aeschylus. The Oresteia. Trans. Robert Fagles. Harmondsworth, England and New York: Penguin Books, 1984.
---. Persians. Trans. Janet Lembke and C. J. Herington. Greek Tragedy in New Translations. New York: Oxford University Press, 1981.
Anouilh, Jean. Plays: One. Variation: Methuen World Classics. London: Methuen, 1997.
Aristophanes. Frogs, Assemblywomen, Wealth. Trans. Jeffrey Henderson. Loeb Classical Library 180. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 2003.
Aristotle. Poetics. Trans. S. H. Butcher. Dramabook. New York: Hill & Wang, 1961.
Csapo, Eric, and William J. Slater. The Context of Ancient Drama. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press, 1995.
Euripides. 10 Plays. Trans. Paul Roche. New York: Signet Classic, 1998.
Seneca, Lucius Annaeus. Four Tragedies and Octavia. Trans. E. F. Watling. Penguin Classics. 2 ed. Baltimore: Penguin Books, 1966.
Sophocles. The Three Theban Plays. Trans. Robert Fagles. Penguin Classics. New York: Penguin Books, 1984.
Readings Available via Brightspace PDF
Anouilh, Jean. "Antigone." Trans. Barbara Bray. Plays: One. Variation: Methuen World Classics. London: Methuen, 1997. 77–137.
Horace. Ars Poetica. Ancient Literary Criticism: The Principal Texts in New Translations. Eds. D. A. Russell and Michael Winterbottom. Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1972. 279-91.
Herington, C. J. "Senecan Tragedy." Arion 5 (1966): 422-71.
Warmington, E. H. Remains of Old Latin II. Livius Andronicus, Naevius, Pacuvius and Accius. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1967. (excerpts)
Modern Studies, Reference
Boyle, A. J. An Introduction to Roman Tragedy. London and New York: Routledge, 2006.
Conacher, D. J. Euripidean Drama: Myth, Theme and Structure. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 1967.
Dover, Kenneth James. Aristophanic Comedy. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1972.
Easterling, P. E., and Bernard MacGregor Walker Knox, eds. Greek Literature. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1985.
Erasmo, Mario. Roman Tragedy: Theatre to Theatricality. Austin: University of Texas Press, 2004.
Foley, Helene P. "The Concept of Women in Athenian Drama." Reflections of Women in Antiquity. Ed. Helene P. Foley. New York: Gordon and Breach Science Publishers, 1981. 127-68.
Gantz, Timothy. Early Greek Myth: A Guide to Literary and Artistic Sources. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993.
Goldhill, Simon, and Edith Hall, eds. Sophocles and the Greek Tragic Tradition. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2009.
Goldhill, Simon. How to Stage Greek Tragedy Today. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2007.
Green, J. R., and E. W. Handley. Images of the Greek Theatre. Classical Bookshelf. Austin: University of Texas Press, 1995.
Hall, Edith. The Theatrical Cast of Athens: Interactions between Ancient Greek Drama and Society. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2006.
Herington, C. J. Aeschylus. Hermes Books. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986.
---. "Senecan Tragedy." Arion 5 (1966): 422-71.
Kenney, E. J., ed. Latin Literature. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1982.
Lesky, Albin. Greek Tragedy. Trans. H.A. Frankfort. 3 ed. London and New York: E. Benn; Barnes & Noble Books, 1978.
McDonald, Marianne, and J. Michael Walton, eds. The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
Motto, Anna Lydia, and John R. Clark. Senecan Tragedy. Amsterdam: A.M. Hakkert, 1988.
Pratt, Norman T. Seneca's Drama. Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 1983.
Seaford, Richard. Euripides. Bacchae. Classical texts. Warminster: Aris & Phillips Ltd., 1996.
---. Euripides. Cyclops. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press; Oxford University Press, 1984.
Staley, Gregory Allan. Seneca and the Idea of Tragedy. Oxford and New York: Oxford University Press, 2010.
Sutton, Dana Ferrin. Seneca on the Stage. Mnemosyne, bibliotheca classica Batava. Supplementum. Leiden: E.J. Brill, 1986.
Taplin, Oliver. Greek Tragedy in Action. Berkeley: University of California Press, 1978.
---. The Stagecraft of Aeschylus: The Dramatic Use of Exits and Entrances in Greek Tragedy. Oxford and New York: Clarendon Press, 1977.
Wiles, David. Tragedy in Athens: Performance Space and Theatrical Meaning. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Wiles, David. Tragedy in Athens: Performance Space and Theatrical Meaning. Cambridge and New York: Cambridge University Press, 1997.
Web Resources
General Reference (signin required)
Cancik, Hubert, Helmuth Schneider, and Christine F. Salazar, eds. Brill's New Pauly. Brill Online. n.d. Web. 1 February 2010. (Sign-in req'd.)
Hornblower, Simon, and Antony Spawforth, eds. The Oxford Classical Dictionary. Oxford University Press. 2003. Web. 1 February 2010.
Greek Theater and Drama
- Didaskalia Study Area is a great source for ancient Greek theater
- Tragedy in Athens : performance space and theatrical meaning (signin req'd)
- Quite scholarly, but quite a resource!
- Honig, Bonnie. Antigone, Interrupted. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2013 (signin req'd)
- We're going to be reading the introduction from this, pp. 1-10.