Invaluable Web Sites are:
Porter, J., A Bibliography of Ancient Drama
[huge and important!]
Porter, J., Skenotheke: Images of the Ancient Stage
[nice collection
of resources on ancient theater]
Books & Articles [Videos:
SHU Library]
Agard, W. R., The Greek Mind, (Princeton UP 1957.
Arnott, P., An Introduction to the Greek Theatre (New York 1965)
Arnott, P.D., Greek Scenic Conventions in the Fifth Century B.C.
(Oxford 1962)
Arnott, P.D., Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre, (London/
New York 1989)
Bain, D., "Some Reflections on the Illusion of Greek Tragedy," BICS 34 (1987) 1-14.
Baldry, H.C., The Greek Tragic Theatre, (NY & London,
1971)
Bieber, M., The History of the Greek and Roman Theatre, (2nd ed.
Princeton 1961)
[useful illustrations, but caveat lector]
de Bouvrie, S., Women in Greek Tragedy: An Anthropological Approach,
(Oslo:
Norwegian UP 1990)
Bowra, C. M., Classical Greece (Time, Inc. 1965)
_____, The Greek Experience (Mentor Bks 1957)
The Cambridge Ancient History, Vol. V Athens: 478 - 401 B.C. (Cambridge UP
1953)
Brea, L.B. "Masks and Characters of the Greek Theatre in the Terracottas of Ancient
Lipara,"
MedArch 5/6 (1992/1993) 23.
Burkert, W., "Greek Tragedy and Sacrificial Ritual," GRBS 7
(1966) 87-121
Calder III, W.M., "The Single-Performance Fallacy,"
Educ. Theatre Journ. 10 (1958) 237-39.
Calder III, W.M., "The Size of Thespis' Chorus," AJP 103 (1982) 319-20.
Carpenter, T. H., and Faraone, C.A. (edd.), The Masks of Dionysus (Ithaca
1993)
Case, S., "Classic Drag: The Greek Creation of Female Parts,"
Theatre Journal 37 (1985) 317-27.
Cole, S.G., "Procession and Celebration at the Dionysia," in
R. Scodel, ed., Theater and Society in the Classical World,
(Ann Arbor 1993) 25-38.
The Complete Greek Drama, ed., Whitney J. Oates and Eugene O'Neill,
Jr.,
2 vols. (Random 1938).
The Complete Greek Tragedies, (Univ. of Chicago Pr 1955; 1959).
DeBurgh, W. G.,, The Legacy of the Ancient World, Vol. I (Penguin
1953)
Dale, A.M. "Seen and Unseen on the Greek Stage," in
Collected Papers, (Cambridge 1969) 119-29.
Damen, M. "Actor and Character in Greek Tragedy," CW 71 (1977)
113-23.
Dinsmoor, W.B. "The Athenian Theater of the Fifth Century," in
Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson, (St. Louis 1951) I
309-30.
Else, G.F., "The Case of the Third Actor," TAPA 76 (1945) 1-10.
Easterling, P., ed., The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy,
(Cambridge
1997)
Euben, P. ed., Greek Tragedy and Political Theory, (Berkeley and Los Angeles 1986)
Fergusson, Francis. The Idea of a Theater, (Princeton 1949)
A study of ten plays illustrative of the changing
perspective of dramatic art.
Excellent theoretical and analytical guide to understanding
dramatic form
and idea throughout a range of dramatists from Sophocles to
T. S. Eliot.
Fitton-Brown, A.D., Greek Plays as First Productions, (Leicester
1970)
Flickinger, R. C., The Greek Theatre and Its Drama (Chicago 1922)
Gebhard, E., "The Form of the Orchestra in the Early Greek Theater,"
Hesperia 43 (1974) 428-40.
Goldhill, S., Reading Greek Tragedy (1986)
Goldhill, S., "Representing Democracy: Women at the Great Dionysia," in
R. Osborne and S. Hornblower, eds., Ritual, Finance, Politics: Athenian
Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis, (Oxford 1994) 347-69.
Goldhill, S.D., "The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology,"
JHS 107 (1987) 58-76.
Graves, Robert, The Greek Myths, 2 vols. (Penguin 1955)
Green, J.R. "On Seeing and Depicting the Theatre in Classical Athens,"
GRBS 32 (1991) 15-50.
Green, J.R. "Theatre Production: 1971-1986," Lustrum 31 (1989) 7-95.
Green, J.R., A. Seeberg, and T.B.L. Webster. Monuments Illustrating New
Comedy,
3rd ed. (BICS Suppl. 50, London, 1995)
Green, J.R., Theatre in Ancient Greek Society, (London
1994)
Greene, William Chase, Moira: Fate, Good, and Evil in Greek Thought
(Harvard
UP 1944)
Grube, G. M. A., tr., On Poetry and Style by Aristotle,
Intro. by G. M. A.
Grube (Macmillan 1986)
Hadas, Moses, A History of Classical Literature (Columbia UP 1950)
Halliwell, S., "The Function and Aesthetics of the Greek Tragic Mask," in
N.W. Slater and B. Zimmermann, eds., Intertextualität in der
griechisch-römischen Komödie, (Stuttgart 1993) 195-211.
Hamilton, Edith, The Greek Way to Western Civilization, (Mentor Bks
1957)
_____, Mythology (Mentor Bks 1953)
Hammond, N.G.L., "More on Conditions of Production to the Death of Aeschylus,"
GRBS 29 (1988) 5-33.
Hammond, N.G.L., "The Conditions of Dramatic Production to the Death of Aeschylus,"
GRBS 13 (1972) 387-450.
Hammond, N.G.L., and W. Moon., "Illustrations of Early Tragedy at Athens,"
AJA 82 (1978) 371-83.
Harrison, Jane., Themis (Cambridge 1927)
A discussion of primitive art, culture, and aesthetics.
esp. G. Murray's "Excursus on the Ritual Forms Preserved
in Greek Tragedy,"
Harsh, Philip W., A Handbook of Classical Drama (Stanford UP 1960)
Harvey, Sir Paul, The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (Oxford UP
1937)
Heath, M. The Poetics of Greek Tragedy (1987)
Heath, Malcolm, tr., Aristotle's Poetics, Intro. by Malcolm Heath (Penguin
1996)
Henderson, J. "Women and the Athenian Dramatic Festivals,"
TAPA 121 (1991) 133-48.
Jaeger, Werner, Paideia: The Ideals of
Greek Culture,
3 vols., tr. Gilbert Highet, Vol. I (Oxford UP 1945)
Katz, M.A., "The Character of Greek Tragedy: Women and the Greek
Imagination,"
Arethusa 27 (1994) 81-103.
Kilmer, M.L., "Genital Phobia and Depilation," JHS 102 (1982) 104-112.
Killeen, J.F., "The Comic Costume Controversy," CQ 21 (1971) 51-54.
Kitto, H. D. F., The Greeks (Penguin 1957)
Kitto, H. D. F., Greek Tragedy, a Literary Study (Doubleday Anchor
1954)
Knox, B. Word and Action (1979)
Knox, B.M.W., "Aeschylus and the Third Actor," AJP 93 (1972) 104-24.
Lefkowitz, M., "Aristophanes and Other Historians of the Fifth Century Theater,"
Hermes 112 (1984) 143-53.
Legrand, P. E., The New Greek Comedy (London, 1917)
Lesky, A., Greek Tragic Poetry (1983)
Ley, G., A Short Introduction to the Greek Theater (Chicago 1991)
Livingston, R. W., Greek Ideals and
Modern Life (Harvard UP 1935)
Lonsdale, S., Dance and Ritual Play in Greek Religion (Baltimore
1993)
Loraux, N., The Children of Athena: Athenian Ideas about Citizenship
and the
Division between the Sexes, (Princeton (1993)
Loraux, N., Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman (1987)
Maitland, J., "Dynasty and Family in the Athenian City State: A View from
Attic Tragedy," CQ 42.1 (1992 26)
Marshall, C.W., "The Rule of Three Actors in Practice,"
Text and Presentation 15 (1994) 53-61.
Mastronarde, D., "Actors on High: The Skenê Roof, the Crane, and the Gods in Attic Drama,"
ClassAnt 9 (1990) 247-94.
McClure, Laura, Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama,
(Princeton UP 1999)
Murray, Gilbert, The Athenian Drama, (London 1902) See esp intro to Vol. II.
Murray, G., et al., (trans), Fifteen Greek plays,
(Oxford UP 1942).
[introduction, and a supplement from the 'Poetics' of Aristotle, by Lane
Cooper;
revised and enlarged edition of Ten Greek plays published in 1929.]
Nauck, ed., Fragmenta Tragicorum Graecorum, (Leipzig 1889)
Neiiendam, K., The Art of Acting in Antiquity, (Copenhagen
1992)
Nilsson, Martin P., A History of Greek Religion, tr. F. J. Fielden
(2d ed., Oxford, Clarendon Press 1949)
Oates, W.J., The Complete Greek Drama, (Random House 1938).
[all extant Greek tragedies and comedies].
O'Connor, J.B., Chapters in the History of Actors and Acting in Ancient
Greece, (NY 1966)
Padel, R., In and Out of the Mind: Greek Images of the Tragic Self,
Princeton (1992)
Parke, H.W., Festivals of the Athenians, (London 1977)
Pelling, Christopher (ed), Greek Tragedy & the Historian, (Oxford UP
1997) PA3137.G594
Pickard-Cambridge, A.W., Dithyramb Tragedy and Comedy (cited above).
Pickard-Cambridge, A.W., The Dramatic Festivals of Athens,
(2nd ed., revised by J. Gould and D.M. Lewis, Oxford 1968)
Pickard-Cambridge, A.W., The Theatre of Dionysus in Athens,
(Oxford 1946)
Podlecki, A.J. "Could Women Attend the Theater in Ancient Athens? A Collection of Testimonia," AncW 21 (1990) 27-43.
Poe, J.P., "The Determination of Episodes in Greek Tragedy,"
AJP 114 (1993) 343-96.
Pope, M., "Athenian Festival Judges — Seven, Five or However Many,"
CQ 36 (1986) 322-26.
Prentice, William K., Those Ancient Dramas Called Tragedies (Princeton
UP 1942)
Rehm, R., Greek Tragic Theatre (1992)
Rose, H. J., Outlines of Classical
Literature (Meridian Books 1961)
Rothwell, K.S., Jr. "The Continuity of the Chorus in Fourth-Century Attic Comedy," in
G. Dobrov, ed., Beyond Aristophanes: Transition and Diversity in
Greek Comedy ,
(Atlanta, 1995) 99-118.
Ruck, C. "Euripides' Mother: Vegetables and the Phallos,"
Arion n.s., 2 (1975) 13-58.
Scullion, J.S., Three Studies in Athenian Dramaturgy, (Stuttgart
1994)
R. Seaford, "The Imprisonment of Women in Greek Tragedy," JHS 110
(1990) 76-90.
R. Seaford, Reciprocity and Ritual. Homer and Tragedy in the Developing
City-State,
(Oxford: Clarendon Pr 1994).
Shaw, M., "The Female Intruder: Women in 5th Century Drama," CP 70
(1975) 255-66.
Sourvinou-Inwood, C., "Something to do with Athens: Tragedy and
Ritual,"
in Ritual, Finance, Politics. Athenian Democratic Accounts
Presented to David Lewis,
ed, by Robin Osborne & Simon Hornblower, (Oxford 1994) 269-290.
Sear, F.B., "Vitruvius and Roman Theater Design,"
AJA 94 (1990) 249-58.
Segal, C., Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text (1986)
Segal, E. ed., Greek Tragedy: Modern Essays in Criticism (Oxford 1983)
Sheppard, J.T., Aeschylus & Sophocles (Ares 1963) Sem Libr
PA3829.S45
Simon, E., The Ancient Theater, (London and NY 1982)
Slater, N.W. "The Lenaean Theatre," ZPE 66 (1986) 255-64.
Smith's Smaller Classical Dictionary, ed., E. H. Blakeney, (Everyman's Library
1937)
Sourvinou-Inwood, C. "Something to do with Athens: Tragedy and Ritual," in
R. Osborne and S. Hornblower, eds., Ritual, Finance, Politics: Athenian
Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis (Oxford, 1994) 269-290.
Taplin, O., Comic Angels, (Oxford 1993)
Taplin, O., Greek Tragedy in Action (Routledge 1994)
Townsend, R.F. "The Fourth-Century Skenê of the Theater of Dionysos at Athens,"
Hesperia 55 (1986) 421-38.
Trendall, A.D. and T.B.L. Webster, Illustrations of Greek Drama,
(London 1971)
Tyrrell, W. B., and F. Brown, Athenian Myths and Institutions: Words in Action
(NY 1991)
Vernant, J.P., and Vidal-Naquet, P. Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece (1981)
Vickers, B., Towards Greek Tragedy (1973)
Walton, J.M. Greek Theatre Practice, (Westport and London 1980)
Webster, T.B.L. Greek Theatre Production, (2nd ed. London
1970)
Webster, T.B.L. Monuments Illustrating Old and Middle Comedy,
(3rd ed., rev., enlarged by J.R. Green. London 1978)
Webster, T.B.L. Monuments Illustrating Tragedy and Satyr Play,
(2nd ed. London 1967)
Webster, T. B. L., Greek Theatre
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Weisinger, Herbert. Tragedy and the Paradox of the Fortunate Fall,
(East
Lansing 1952)
A "myth" interpretation of the tragic experience
and reaction to it.
West, M.L. "The Prometheus Trilogy," JHS 99 (1979) 130-48.
Wiles, D., Tragedy in Athens: Performance Space and Theatrical
Meaning,
(Cambridge 1997)
Wiles, David, Greek Theatre Performance, (Ares Pr 2000)
PA3201.W53200/00
Wilson, Edmund, The Wound and the Bow, (NY 1929)
Winkler and Zeitlin, eds., Nothing to Do with Dionysos?, (Princeton
1990)
Wiles, David, "Greek Theatre and the Legitimation of Slavery," in
Slavery
and other Forms of unfree Labour, ed. Léonie J. Archer,
(Routledge 1988) 53-67
Winnington-Ingram, R.P. et al. "Tragedy" (cited below) 263-81.
Winter, F.E., "The Stage of New Comedy," Phoenix 37 (1983) 38-47.
Zeitlin, F., "Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality and the Feminine
in Greek Drama,"
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Zeitlin (edd.),
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PA3131.2513
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Davidson, J.F. "The Circle and the Tragic Chorus," G&R 33 (1986) 38-46.
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Else, G.F. The Origin and Early Form of Greek Tragedy,
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