Greek Theatre Overview
Textbooks on Reserve
A cultural history of theatre
NW Owens Reserve NWO Resv Theat B002
(4 HOUR LOAN)
This is good for:
Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
Theater and society
Influence on modern or contemporary theater
Representative plays and playwrights
Chapter 2 Classical Athens
Social Ideas/Art Ideas (Theater and Society)
Greek Theatre – Location, Performers, Audience, Standards of Judgement (Acting,
performance, stage design, theater design and technical innovations)
Dramatic Literature – Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes (Representative
plays and playwrights)
Connections: (Influence on modern or contemporary theater)
Performance space – placement of audience, side entrance and exits, scene building and
painted scenery, stage machinery
Performance – costumes and masks
Drama – plot, integration of music, tragedy and comedy
Western theatre: Revolution and revival
NW Owens Reserve NWO Resv Theat B005
(4 HOUR LOAN)
This is good for:
Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
Theater and society
Representative plays and playwrights
Chapter 4 Greek Theatre 534 B.C. – ca A.D. 476
The Classical Period/Festivals 534 B.C. – 336 B.C. (Theater and Society)
The Theatres/The Performers/Masks and Costumes (Acting, performance, stage design,
theater design and technical innovations)
Playwrights and Plays (Representative plays and playwrights)
Theatre: A history of the art
NW Owens Reserve NWO Resv Theat B006
(4 HOUR LOAN)
This is good for:
Acting, performance, stage design, theater design, and technical innovations
Theater and society
Representative plays and playwrights
Chapter 2 The Drama in Ancient Greece
The Aegean World (Theater and Society)
The Beginnings of Classical Tragedy/The Developmental Theory of the Origin of
Tragedy/Fifth Century Tragedy – Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Satyr Play, Comedy,
Aristophanes (Representative plays and playwrights)
Aspects of Production – The Chorus, Acting, Costume and Makeup, The Greek Stage
(Acting, performance, stage design, theater design and technical innovations)
Period Style for the Theatre
NW Owens Reserve 792.02 R962p
(2 HOUR LOAN)
This is good for:
Theater design, costumes, acting, society and culture, representative playwrights and
plays
Chapter 2 Greek Style
Art and Culture/Life and Cultural Ideals (Culture and Society)
Ornament, Interiors, Furniture/The Theatre (Stage Design and Theater Design)
Costume and Accessories
Movement/Acting the Plays
The Plays (Representative plays and Playwrights)
Theatre past and present: an introduction
NW Owens Reserve NWO Resv Theat B014
(4 HOUR LOAN)
This is good for:
Acting, performance, costumes, stage design, theater design and technical innovations
Representative plays and dramatists of the time
Influence on modern or contemporary theater
History of the theatre / Oscar G. Brockett with Franklin J. Hildy
NW Owens Reserve – Theat B023
This is good for:
Acting, performance, stage design, theater design and technical innovations
Theater and society
Representative plays and dramatists of the time
Chapter 2 Theatre and Drama in Ancient Greece
Introduction/The Dramatic Festivals of the Fifth Century (Culture and Society).
Tragedy in the Fifth Century/Satyr Play/Greek Comedy in the Fifth Century
(Representative plays and playwrights)
Play Selection and Financing (Directing)
Theatre Architecture/Auditorium and Audience (Theater Design and Stage Design)
Actors and Acting
Masks and Costumes
The Chorus/Music and Dance
Library Catalog/MOBIUS Catalog Searches (culture and society)
Do a subject search in the library catalog to find more books about ancient Greek civilization
(culture and society). You can also search the MOBIUS Catalog and REQUEST books you find
there that Owens Library does not have.
Greece -- Social life and customs.
Greece -- Civilization -- To 146 B.C.
Greek culture and society
Daily life of the ancient Greeks / Robert Garland
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 938 G23d
eBook version link:
http://dailylife.greenwood.com/dle.aspx?&k=3&x=GR5814&bc=DBDL1311&p=GR5814-162
MOBIUS Books on Greek Theatre and Culture and Society
These are books available in other college and university libraries across the state of
Missouri that you can REQUEST to have delivered here to Owens Library so you can
check them out and use them. The REQUEST link is included with each title:
Author Hall, Edith, 1959Title The theatrical cast of Athens : interactions between ancient Greek drama and
society / Edith Hall.
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2006.
MOBIUS REQUEST THIS ITEM
Author Beer, Josh.
Title Sophocles and the tragedy of Athenian democracy / Josh Beer.
Published Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2004.
MOBIUS REQUEST THIS ITEM
Author Slater, Niall W., 1954Title Spectator politics : metatheatre and performance in Aristophanes / Niall W. Slater.
Published Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, c2002.
MOBIUS REQUEST THIS ITEM
Core Books on Ancient Greek Theatre in Owens Library
"The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre." Marianne McDonald and J.
Michael Walton. The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre. Cambridge
University Press, 2007. Cambridge Collections Online. Cambridge University Press. 27
October 2009
http://cco.cambridge.org/uid=11992/extract?id=ccol9780521834568_CCOL9780521834
568_root
"The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy." P. E. Easterling. The Cambridge
Companion to Greek Tragedy. Cambridge University Press, 1997. Cambridge Collections
Online. Cambridge University Press. 27 October 2009
http://cco.cambridge.org/uid=11992/extract?id=ccol0521412455_CCOL0521412455_roo
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The Cambridge companion to Greek tragedy / edited by P.E. Easterling.
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 882.01 C17c
A guide to Greek theatre and drama / Kenneth McLeish ; completed by Trevor R.
Griffiths.
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 882.01 M16g
Greek theatre performance : an introduction / David Wiles.
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 792.0938 W67g
A short introduction to the Ancient Greek theater / Graham Ley.
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 792.0938 L68s
Stage antiquities of the Greeks and Romans and their influence / by James Turney Allen
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 792.093 A42s
The ancient theatre / Erika Simon ; translated by C.E. Vafopoulou-Richardson
LOCATION CALL # STATUS
NW Owens 3rd Floor Main 792.093 A42s
Representative Plays and Playwrights
McGraw Hill Encyclopedia of World Drama
NW Owens Reference 1st Floor 809.2 M14m
Volume 2 – Greek Drama/Ancient
Articles on individual playwrights such as Euripides
Literature and Its Times
First Floor Reference 809 L77l V.1 Prehistory-1790s
Antigone by Sophocles
Medea by Euripedes
This series is particularly good at setting the events and themes of a play into its historical
context. For instance in the play Antigone the themes of religion, civic pride, and law are
all investigated.
Copy the Bookmark URL into your browser’s Address box.
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it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w
Title: Medea
Source:Drama for Students. Ed. David M. Galens and Lynn M. Spampinato.
Vol. 1. Detroit: Gale, 1998. p180-201. Page 180
Medea
EURIPIDES 431, B.C.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
PLOT SUMMARY
CHARACTERS
THEMES
STYLE
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
CRITICAL OVERVIEW
CRITICISM
FURTHER READING
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it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w
Title: The Bacchae
Source:Drama for Students. Ed. David M. Galens. Vol. 6. Detroit: Gale, 1999. p1-22.
Page 1
The Bacchae
EURIPIDES 405 B.C.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
PLOT SUMMARY
CHARACTERS
THEMES
STYLE
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
CRITICAL OVERVIEW
CRITICISM
SOURCES
FURTHER READING
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it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w
Title: Oedipus Rex
Source:Drama for Students. Ed. David M. Galens and Lynn M. Spampinato. Vol. 1.
Detroit: Gale, 1998. p202-221. Page 202
Oedipus Rex
SOPHOCLES c. 430, B.C.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
PLOT SUMMARY
CHARACTERS
THEMES
STYLE
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
CRITICAL OVERVIEW
CRITICISM
FURTHER READING
SOURCES
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it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w
Title: Electra
Source:Drama for Students. Ed. David M. Galens. Vol. 4. Detroit: Gale, 1998. p83-97.
Page 83
Electra
SOPHOCLES c. 409 B.C.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
PLOT SUMMARY
CHARACTERS
THEMES
STYLE
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
CRITICAL OVERVIEW
CRITICISM
SOURCES
FURTHER READING
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it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w
Title: Antigone
Source:Drama for Students. Ed. David M. Galens and Lynn M. Spampinato. Vol. 1.
Detroit: Gale, 1998. p1-19.
Page 1
Antigone
SOPHOCLES c. 442 B.C.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
PLOT SUMMARY
CHARACTERS
THEMES
STYLE
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
CRITICAL OVERVIEW
CRITICISM
FURTHER READING
SOURCES
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it=r&p=GVRL&sw=w
Title: Ajax
Source:Drama for Students. Ed. David M. Galens. Vol. 8. Detroit: Gale, 2000. p1-16.
Page 1
Ajax
SOPHOCLES 444 B.C.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
PLOT SUMMARY
CHARACTERS
THEMES
STYLE
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
CRITICAL OVERVIEW
CRITICISM
SOURCES
FURTHER READING
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Title: Lysistrata
Source:Drama for Students. Ed. Michael L. LaBlanc. Vol. 10. Detroit: Gale, 2001. p104122.
Page 104
Lysistrata
ARISTOPHANES 411 B.C.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
PLOT SUMMARY
CHARACTERS
THEMES
STYLE
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
CRITICAL OVERVIEW
CRITICISM
SOURCES
FURTHER READING
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Title: Prometheus Bound
Source:Drama for Students. Ed. David M. Galens. Vol. 5. Detroit: Gale, 1999. p230-248.
Page 230
Prometheus Bound
AESCHYLUS 456 B.C.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
PLOT SUMMARY
CHARACTERS
THEMES
STYLE
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
CRITICAL OVERVIEW
CRITICISM
SOURCES
FURTHER READING
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Title: Seven Against Thebes
Source:Drama for Students. Ed. Michael L. LaBlanc. Vol. 10. Detroit: Gale, 2001. p183219.
AESCHYLUS 467 B.C.
AUTHOR BIOGRAPHY
PLOT SUMMARY
CHARACTERS
THEMES
STYLE
HISTORICAL CONTEXT
CRITICAL OVERVIEW
CRITICISM
SOURCES
FURTHER READING