Looking at Greek Drama

David Stuttard is an independent scholar and Fellow of Goodenough College, London, UK. He has directed his own translations and adaptations of Greek drama throughout the UK and in classical theatres in Turkey and Albania. He is the founder of the theatre company Actors of Dionysus and has edited five 'Looking at' volumes for Bloomsbury: Lysistrata (2010), Medea (2014), Bacchae (2016), Antigone (2017), Ajax (2019) Agamemnon (2021) and Persians (2022).

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List of Contributors
Preface

A Brief Introduction: Greek Drama in Context (David Stuttard, Fellow of Goodenough College, UK)

Sources and Context
1. Sources of Evidence for Ancient Greek Drama (Dr. Lucy C. M. M. Jackson, Assistant Professor in Classics [Ancient Greek Literature], Durham University, UK)
2. Sixth- to Fourth-Century BCE History and Society: a Brief Introduction (Professor Paul Cartledge, Fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, UK)

Origins and Genres
3. Origins: Dithyrambs, Dionysus and the Athenian Dionysia (Professor Vayos Liapis, Postgraduate Programme in Theatre Studies, The Open University of Cyprus, Cyprus)
4. Tragedy and Tragedians (Professor Menelaos Christopoulos, Professor of Ancient Greek Literature, University of Patras, Director of the Center for the Study of Myth and Religion in Greek and Roman Society, Greece)
5. Comedy and Comic Poets (Professor Alan Sommerstein, Emeritus Professor of Greek, University of Nottingham, UK)

Elements of Greek Drama
6. Plot: Myth in Tragedy (Professor Robert Parker, Emeritus Professor of Ancient History, New College, Oxford, UK)
7. Structure: Prologues, Choral Odes, Episodes, Messenger Speeches, and Endings (Professor Rush Rehm, Professor of Classics, Stanford University, USA)
8. Character: The Tragic and Comic Hero and Heroine (Professor Hanna Roisman, Arnold Bernhard Professor in Arts and Humanities, Colby University [retired], USA)
9. Thought: Religion, Politics and Philosophy (Professor Richard Seaford, Emeritus Professor Classics and Ancient Greek, University of Exeter, UK)
10. Opsis: Stagecraft and Performance (Professor C.W. Marshall, Professor of Greek, Department of Classical, Near Eastern and Religious Studies, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, Canada and Justin Dwyer, Sessional Lecturer, University of Victoria, Canada)
11. Music and Dance in Tragedy, Comedy and Dithyrambs (Professor Armand D’Angour, Professor of Classics, Jesus College, Oxford, UK)

The Reception of Greek Drama
12. The Romanisation of Greek Drama: The Republic (Professor George W.M. Harrison, Department of Greek and Roman Studies, Carleton University, Canada)
13. The Later Reception of Greek Drama (Professor Fiona Macintosh, St. Hilda’s College, Oxford, Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama, Curator of the Ioannou Centre, UK)

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