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Classical Drama and Theatre
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Reaction Summaries: Section 1
Early Greek Tragedy |
| Gerald F. Else, "Dionysus, Goat-Men and Tragoidia" and "Solon and Pisistratus: The Attic Matrix" in The Origin and Early Form of Greek Tragedy (Harvard Univ. Press: 1965) 9-50. [] |
| James G. Frazer, The Golden Bough: A Study in Magic and Religion (MacMillan: 1922). [] |
| Simon Goldhill, "The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology" in Nothing To Do With Dionysos, edd. J.J. Winkler and F.I. Zeitlin (1990) 97-129. [] |
| N.G.L. Hammond and W.G. Moon, "Illustrations of Early Tragedy at Athens," AJA 82.3 (1978) 371-383. [] |
| N.G.L. Hammond, "More on the Conditions of Production to the Death of Aeschylus," GRBS 29.1 (1988) 5-34. [] |
| M. Hinden, "Drama and Ritual Once Again: Notes toward a Revival of Tragic Theory," Comparative Drama 29 (1995) 183-202. [] |
| A.M.G. Little, Myth and Society in Attic Drama (1942) 3-28. [] |
| J.P. Poe, "The Altar in the Fifth-Century Theatre," Classical Antiquity 8 (1989) 116-139. [] |
| C. Segal, Interpreting Greek Tragedy: Myth, Poetry, Text (1986) 21-47. [] |
| E. Vandiver, "Greek Heroic Mythology and the Ritual Theory of Tragedy's Origin," in Text and Presentation: The Journal of the Comparative Drama Conference XI, ed. K. Hartigan (1991) 119-125. [] |
General Greek Tragedy |
| P.D. Arnott, "Convention versus Illusion" and "Problems of Translation," An Introduction to Greek Theatre (1959) 1-14, 180-206 [] |
| M. Damen, "Actor and Character in Greek Tragedy," Theatre Journal 41 (1989) 316-340. [] |
| M. Damen, "French Scenes in Greek Tragedy: The Scenic Structure of Classical Drama," Theatre Journal 55 (2003) 113-134. [] |
| J.F. Davidson, "The Circle and the Tragic Chorus," G&R 33.1 (1986) 38-46. [] |
| M. Dillon, "Tragic Laughter," CW 84 (1991) 345-55. [] |
| H. Foley, "Modern Performance and Adaptation of Greek Tragedy," TAPA 129 (1999) 1-12. [] |
| E. Gebhard, "The Form of the Orchestra in the Early Greek Theater," Hesperia 43 (1974) 428-440. [] |
| J.R. Green, "On Seeing and Depicting the Theatre in Classical Athens," GRBS 32 (1991) 15-50. [] |
| M.L. Hart, O. Taplin, P. Hall, P. Sellars, P. Stein and L. Koniordou, "Ancient Greek Tragedy on the Stage," Arion 10 (2003) 125-175. [] |
| Bernard Knox, "Myth and Attic Tragedy" in Word and Action: Essays on the Ancient Theatre (Johns Hopkins Univ. Press: 1979), 3-24. [] |
| D. Konstan, "What We Must Believe in Greek Tragedy," Ramus 28 (1999) 75-88. [] |
| G. Ley and M. Evans, "The Orchestra as Acting Area in Greek Tragedy," Ramus 14.2 (1985) 75-84. [] |
| C.W. Marshall, "Alcestis and the Ancient Rehearsal Process (P.Oxy. 4546)," Arion 11 (2004) 27-45. [] |
| A. Pickard-Cambridge, The Dramatic Festivals of Athens, 2nd ed., rev. J. Gould and D.M. Lewis (Oxford Clarendon: 1988). [] |
| R. Rehm, "The Performance Culture of Athens" in Greek Tragic Theatre (Routledge, London: 1992). [] |
| R. Rehm, Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy (Princeton: 1994). [] |
| O. Taplin, "Actions and Gestures" and "Objects and Tokens" in Greek Tragedy in Action (University of California, Berkeley: 1978) 58-100. [] |
| J. Winkler and F. Zeitlin (edd.), Nothing To Do With Dionysos? Athenian Drama in its Social Context (Princeton: 1990). Esp, J. Winkler, "The Ephebes' Song: Tragoidia and Polis," in op. cit., 20-62. [] |
| Jennifer Wise, "Courtroom Dramas" in Dionysus Writes: The Invention of Theatre in Ancient Greece (Cornell Univ. Press: 1998) 119-168. [] |
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