GRS 277: Greek Tragedy & Comedy
Illinois Wesleyan UniversityFall 2004 Reserves
ARTICLES/CHAPTERS ON E-RESERVE (forgot password? email Prof. Sultan)
Blundell, M.W.,1993. "The ideal of Athens in Oedipus at Colonus," in Tragedy, Comedy, and the Polis, ed. A. Sommerstein, S. Halliwell, J. Henderson and B. Zimmermann, Bari. Nottingham.
Fantham, E., 1994. "Women in Classical Athens: Heroines & Housewives," in E. Fantham, et al, eds., Women in the Classical World: Images and Text. Oxford, pp. 68-127.
Foley, H., 2000. "Sacrificial Virgins: Antigone as a Moral Agent," in H. Foley, Female Acts in Greek Tragedy. Princeton.
Goldhill, S., 1997. "The Audience of Athenian Tragedy," in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, ed. P.E. Easterling, pp. 54-68.
Hall, E., 1997. "The Sociology of Athenian Tragedy," in The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, ed. P.E. Easterling, pp. 93-126.
Henderson, J. 1990. "The Demos and the Comic Competition," in Nothing to Do with Dionysos: Athenian Drama in its Social Context, ed. J. Winkler & Froma Zeitlin, pp. 271-313.
Konstan, D., 1993. "Aristophanes' Lysistrata: Women and the Body Politic," in Tragedy, Comedy, and the Polis edited by A. Sommerstein, S. Halliwell, J. Henderson and B. Zimmermann, Bari.
McClure, L. 1999. "Logos Gunaikos: Speech and Gender in Aechylus' Oresteia," in L. McClure, Spoken Like a Woman: Speech and Gender in Athenian Drama, pp. 70-111.
Plato, Apology, trans. Michael Stokes (1997), pp. 41-55.
Prins, Y. 1991. "The Power of the Speech Act: Aeschylus’ Furies & Their Binding Song," Arethusa 24, pp. 177-195.
Segal, C. 1994. "Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus: Freud, Language, and the Unconscious," in Freud and Forbidden Knowledge, ed. Rudnytsky and Spitz (New York U. Press), pp. 72-95.
Segal, C. 1993. "Theater, Ritual, and Commemoration," in Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow, pp.110-135
Sultan, N. 1993. "Public Speech, Private Pain: The Power of Women’s Laments in Greek Poetry and Tragedy," in Rediscovering the Muses: Women’s Musical Traditions, ed. K. Marshall, pp. 92-110.
Winkler, J. 1990. "The Ephebes' Song: Tragoidia and Polis," in Nothing to Do with Dionysos: Athenian Drama in its Social Context, ed. J. Winkler & Froma Zeitlin, pp. 20-62.
Zeitlin, F., Zeitlin, F. 1995. "The Dynamics of Misogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in Aeschylus's Oresteia," in F. Zeitlin, Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature
Zeitlin, F., 2002. "Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama" (Sources: Sophocles, 'Women of Trachis' 531-87, 1046-84; Euripides, 'Bacchae' 912-44), in Sexuality and Gender in the Classical World. Readings and Sources, ed. Laura McClure.
FILMS ON RESERVE:
Aeschylus, Oresteia: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers (Choephoroi), Eumenides (Furies)
Sophocles, Antigone, Oedipus the King (Rex)
Euripides, Medea
SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY (NOT ON RESERVE):
Arnott, P., Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre
Brooke, I. Costume in Greek Classic Drama
Easterling, P.E., Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy
Foley, H., Female Acts in Greek Tragedy
Goldhill, S., The Oresteia
Hartigan, K., Greek Tragedy on the American Stage
Henderson, J., The Maculate Muse: Obscene Language in Attic Comedy
Loraux , N., Tragic Ways of Killing a Woman
McDonald, M. The Living Art of Greek Tragedy
MacDowell, D., Aristophanes & Athens
Pickard-Cambridge, The Dramatic Festivals of Athens
Rehm, R., Greek Tragic Theatre
Segal, C. , Tragedy & Civilization: An Interpretation of Sophocles
Solomon, J., Ancient World in the Cinema
Sommerstein, A. Tragedy, Comedy, and the Polis
Taaffee, L., Aristophanes and Women
Walton, J.M., Living Greek Theatre
West, M. Ancient Greek Music
Winkler, J., Classics and Cinema