Ancient Theater: Tragety

WEB RESOURCES

Art, Architecture, and Archaeology

• Perseus Theater Tour
• Roman Theatres
• Roman Amphitheatres
• Structure of the Greek Theater
• Dr. J's Illustrated Greek Theater Page
• Dr. J's Illustrated South Slope of the Acropolis Lecture: The Theater of Dionysus
• Skenotheke: Images of the Ancient Stage

Greek Theater

• Introduction to Greek Stagecraft
• Dr. J's Illustrated Greek Drama Page
• Dionysus and Greek Drama (nice images)
• Dramatic Festivals and Competitions
• Staging, Actors, Masks
• Tragic Form and Conventions
• An Outline of Aristotle's Theory of Tragedy
• Greek tragedies: An introduction and listing
• "The Male Actor of Greek Tragedy: Evidence of Misogyny or Gender-Bending?," by Nancy Sorkin Rabinowitz (Didaskalia Supplement 1, May 1995)
• Greek and Roman Drama: A Bibliography (Porter)

Roman Theater:

• Introduction to Roman Stagecraft
• Greek and Roman Drama: A Bibliography (Porter)

Modern Performance of Ancient Theater:

• Didaskalia: Ancient Theater Today
• MASC: Modern Actors Staging Classics
• THEATRON
• The Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama (University of Oxford)
• Reception of the texts and images of ancient Greece in late twentieth-century drama and poetry
• The Oresteia (photos from modern production by American Repertory Theater, at Loeb Drama Center, Harvard University)
• "The eternal madness of Medea," by Jeffrey Cottrill (discussion of modern production of Medea at the University of Toronto)
• Medea: The Musical a fascinating contemporary performance of Medea which played in San Francisco and Los Angeles
• Medea in Athens (a modern "idea Play" by Grippy and Cormo)
• The Bacchae (modern production by American Repertory Theater at Loeb Drama Center)-includes production photos, interview with director and designer, and review from Boston Phoenix
• Helene Foley, "Modern Performance and Adaptation of Greek Tragedy"

Aeschylus:

• Background on Aeschylus
• Background and Images for the Oresteia
• Robin Mitchell-Boyask's Study Guide for the Oresteia
• a different version of above
• Greta Ham's Study Guide for Agamemenon
• Andrew Wilson's Study Guide for Agamemnon
• Barbara McManus's Study Guide for Agamemnon
• Barbara McManus's Study Guide for Eumenides

Sophocles:

• Background on Sophocles
• Background on Antigone
• Information and Images from the Riley Collection
• Robin Mitchell-Boyask's Study Guide for Oedipus the King
• Robin Mitchell-Boyask's Study Guide for the Antigone
• Greta Ham's Study Guide for Antigone
• Barbara McManus's Study Guide for Antigone

Euripides:

• Background on Euripides
• Background to the Hippolytus myth
• Background and images for Hippolytus.
• Robin Mitchell-Boyask's Study Guide for the Hippolytus
• Greta Ham's Study Guide for the Hippolytus
• Background and Images for the Bacchae
• Robin Mitchell-Boyask's Study Guide for the Bacchae
• Barbara McManus's Study Guide for the Bacchae
• Background and Images for the Medea
• Robin Mitchell-Boyask's Study Guide for the Medea
• Barbara McManus's Study Guide for Medea

Aristophanes:

• Background on Aristophanes
• Robin Mitchell-Boyask's Study Guide for the Frogs
• Greta Ham's Study Guide for the Frogs

Seneca:

• Cindy's Study Questions for the Troades
• On Line Seneca Resources

Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus:

• Cindy's Study Questions for Titus