Resources

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

Various Classics Sites

  • Visit Perseus for texts, mythological references, art, etc. etc.
  • Diotima is invaluable as a resource for for cultural history, gender, issues, etc.

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