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Books

Greek Tragedy

Peter D. Arnott, Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre (Routledge, 1989)

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=165701

P.E. Easterling, ed, Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 1997)

https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1017/CCOL0521412455

Simon Goldhill, Reading Greek Tragedy (Cambridge University Press, 1986)

https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1017/CBO9780511627354

Deborah Kamen, Status in Classical Athens (Princeton UP, 2013)

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=1143959

Martha Nussbaum. The Fragility of Goodness (Cambridge University Press, 1986)

https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1017/CBO9780511817915

Rush Rehm, Understanding Greek Tragic Theatre (Routledge, 1992)

https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4324/9781315748696

Oliver Taplin, Greek Tragedy in Action (Routledge, 1978)

https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4324/9780203083819

David Wiles, Greek Theatre Performance: An Introduction (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1017/CBO9781139878371


Aeschylus

Simon Goldhill, Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia (Cambridge University Press, 1984)
https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1017/CBO9780511552496


Sophocles

Sarah Nooter, When Heroes Sing: Sophocles and the Soundscape of Tragedy (CUP, 2012)

https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1017/CBO9780511736209

Rebecca Bushnell, Prophesying Tragedy: Sign and Voice in Sophocles' Theban Plays (Cornell University Press, 1988)

https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.7591/9781501745584

George Steiner, Antigones (Clarendon Press, 1984)

https://0-www-oxfordscholarship-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780192819345.001.0001/acprof-9780192819345

R Winnington-Ingram, Sophocles: An Interpretation (Cambridge University Press, 1980)

https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1017/CBO9780511586194


Euripides

E.R. Dodds, The Greeks and the Irrational (California University Press, 1973)

https://0-hdl-handle-net.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/2027/heb.01437

Justina Gregory, Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians (University of Michigan Press, 1991)

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=3414974


Lope de Vega and Calderón

Anthony Cascardi, The Limits of Illusion: Critical Studies of Calderón (Cambridge University Press, 1984)

https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1017/CBO9780511659416

D.R.Larson, The Honor Plays of Lope de Vega (1977)

https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.4159/harvard.9780674493087

Jonathan Thacker, Companion to Golden Age Theatre (Woodbridge: Tamesis, 2007)

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=3003579


Molière

Andrew Calder, Moliere, the Theory and Practice of Comedy (Athlone, 1993)

https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/warw/detail.action?docID=3002911


Racine

Hawcroft., Word as Action: Racine, Rhetoric, and Theatrical Language (Oxford University Press, 1992)

https://0-www-oxfordscholarship-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151852.001.0001/acprof-9780198151852

E.D. James and G. Jondorf, Racine, Phedre (Cambridge University Press, 1994)

https://0-doi-org.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/10.1017/CBO9781139166423
Maskell, Racine: A Theatrical Reading (Oxford University Press, 1991)

https://0-www-oxfordscholarship-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/view/10.1093/acprof:oso/9780198151616.001.0001/acprof-9780198151616


Modern Drama

David Krasner, A History of Modern Drama vol 1 (Wiley-Blackwell, 2012)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2958243

David Krasner, A History of Modern Drama: 1960-2000 vol 2 (Wiley Blackwell, 2016)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3249391

Christopher Innes, F.J. Marker (eds.), Modernism in European Drama: Ibsen, Strindberg, Pirandello, Beckett: Essays from Modern Drama (University of Toronto Press, 2016)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3282596


Benedictsson

Alas, Katrin (2006) “Victoria Benedictsson: The Problem of Female Artistry during the Modern Breakthrough”, in Inger M. Olsen & Sven Hakon Rossel [eds] Female Voices of the North II: An Anthology, Vienna: Praesens Verlag, pp. 129-147: https://archive.org/details/isbn_9783706901550_3/page/128/ 

Holm, Birgitte (2008) “Spellbound and the Ballad”, Columbia University, http://www.columbia.edu/cu/swedish/pdf/Holms_Spellbound.pdf 

Larsson, Lisbeth (2004) “About Her Dead Body: Victoria Benedictsson and the Beginnings of a New Biography”, in Ebba Witt-Brattström [ed.] The New Woman and the Aesthetic Opening: Unlocking Gender in Twentieth-Century Texts, Huddinge: Södertörns Högskola, pp. 35-50: https://archive.org/details/newwomanaestheti0000unse/page/34/ 

Moberg, Verne (1984) The Truth and Work of Victoria Benedictsson: Levels of Reality in her Writing Life, PhD thesis, University of Wisconsin, http://0-search.proquest.com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/dissertations-theses/truth-work-victoria-benedictsson-levels-reality/docview/303315181/se-2.

Steinfeld, Torill (2014) “Nora’s Sisters? Gender and Modernity in Dramas by Scandinavian Women Playwrights in the 1880s and 90s”, University of Oslo, https://library.tsu.ge/data/file_db/scandinavian-studies/Torill-Steinfeld.pdf 

Thompson, Birgitta (1993) “Folklore and Myth in Victoria Benedictsson’s Story Den bergtagna”, in Anthony Bushell [ed.] Essays in Germanic Studies: Carl Löfmark Memorial Volume, Lampeter: Trivium, pp. 139-153:https://archive.org/details/essaysingermanic0000unse/page/138/ 

Zhulina, Alisa (2024) “Chapter 2: The Dowry versus Erotic Capital: The Drama of Courtship in Strindberg, Shaw, and Benedictsson” in Theater of Capital: Modern Drama and Economic Life, Northwestern University Press.


Ibsen

James McFarlane (ed), The Cambridge companion to Ibsen (Cambridge University Press, 1994)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2597701

Sally Ledger, Henrik Ibsen (Northcote House Publishers, 2008)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3441731

Michael Egan (ed), Henrik Ibsen (Routledge and K. Paul, 1972)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2892343


Chekhov

Vera Gottlieb and Paul Allain (eds), The Cambridge companion to Chekhov (Cambridge University Press, 2000)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2597543

Sharon Marie Carnicke, Checking out Chekhov : A Guide to the Plays for Actors, Directors, and Readers (Academic Studies Press, 2013)
http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2993205

Christopher Innes, A sourcebook on naturalist theatre (Routledge, 2000) - great for Ibsen and Chekhov

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2061652


Wedekind

Edward Bond, (1980) [trans. & ed.] Spring Awakening, London: Methuen.

https://0-www-dramaonlinelibrary-com.pugwash.lib.warwick.ac.uk/plays/spring-awakening-iid-116090

Steven Sater and Duncan Sheik, Spring awakening (Theatre Communications Group, 2007)

European Theatre student Daisy Ingrey's translation (pdf).

MLA citation:
Wedekind, Frank. Spring Awakening. Translated by Daisy Ingrey. 2021. https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/english/currentstudents/undergraduate/modules/fulllist/second/en302/videoandaudio/saingrey.pdf. PDF file.

Brecht

Peter Thomson and Glendyr Sacks (eds), The Cambridge companion to Brecht (Cambridge University Press, 2006)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2597954

Stephen Unwin, A guide to the plays of Bertolt Brecht (Bloomsbury Methuen Drama, 2005)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3433720

Carol Martin and Henry Bial (eds), Brecht sourcebook (Routledge, 2000)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2900264


Lorca

Maria M. Delgado, Federico García Lorca (Routledge, 2008)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2669537


Beckett

Dirk Van Hulle (ed), The New Cambridge companion to Samuel Beckett (Cambridge University Press, 2015)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2752374

S.E. Gontarski (ed), On Beckett: essays and criticism (Anthem Press, 2012)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2779721

Andrew K. Kennedy, Samuel Beckett (Cambridge University Press, 1989)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2796222

Mark S. Byron (ed), Samuel Beckett's Endgame: Essays (Rodopi, 2007)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2938866


Churchill

Elaine Aston and Elin Diamond (ed), The Cambridge companion to Caryl Churchill (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2597862

Elaine Aston, Caryl Churchill (Northcote House, 2020)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb3441793


Reza

Hannah Freed-Thall, Spoiled distinctions: aesthetics and the ordinary in French modernism (Oxford University Press, 2015)

http://encore.lib.warwick.ac.uk/iii/encore/record/C__Rb2849945


Filmed productions, TV/film adaptations

The Oresteia, dir. Peter Hall, National Theatre, 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdv3vkECqXA&list=PLE4F0KOuCs97YofSqWs9oe4zUcu0q_-sZ

Oedipus, dir. Steven Berkoff, Nottingham Playhouse, 2011: https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/east-productions/oedipus

Oedipus the King, dir. Don Taylor, BBC, 1986: https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/bbc-studios/oedipus-the-king

King Oedipus, dir. Alan Bridges, trans. E.F. Watling, BBC, 1972: https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/bbc-studios/king-oedipus

Oedipus the King, dir. Philip Savile, 1968: https://youtu.be/6lSMs3CSyNQ

Oedipus Rex, dir. Tyrone Guthrie, trans. W. B. Yeats, Stratford Shakespearean festival, 1957: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TonLOAkc1OY

Antigone, dir. Ivo van Hove, trans. Anne Carson, Barbican Theatre, 2015 (starring Juliette Binoche): https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/0AB21575?bcast=116321282

Antigone, dir. Don Taylor, trans. Don Taylor, BBC, 1986 (starring Juliet Stevenson): https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/bbc-studios/antigone

Antigone, dir. Gerald Freedman, version by Jean Anouilh, Broadway Theater Archive, 1974 (starring Genevieve Bujold): https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/broadway-digital-archive/antigone

Antigone, dir. Polly Findlay, trans. Don Taylor, National Theatre, 2012 (starring Jodie Whitaker): https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C4700084?account_id=14888&usage_group_id=95063

Dionysus in 69 (The Bacchae), dir. Brian De Palma and Richard Schechner, The Performance Group, 1970: http://ubu.com/film/depalma_dionysus.html

The Bacchae (in Greek, no subtitles), dir. Aris Biniaris, Onassis Stegi Main Stage, 2018: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h_uD_X7VWPQ

Frogs, dir. Kelsi Russell, Warwick Classics Society, 2019: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DM7JfS4Q_ww and accompanying lecture by Prof. Michael Scott (University of Warwick): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pb9rzsoRI-4

Tartuffe, dir. Bill Alexander, Royal Shakespeare Company, 1983: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zzAKre-b4DI&list=PL9GGOMDkACVTmA_ycgC2Bv19hYhuVYm8E

Phèdre, dir. Nicholas Hytner, National Theatre, 2009, starring Helen Mirren [paid only]: https://www.ntathome.com/phedre

Phèdre (in French), dir. Pierre Jourdan, 1968: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXawHgRgAGc

Hedda, dir. Don Boyd, Palimpsest, 2015 (immersive production): https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/hibrow/hedda

Hedda Gabler, dir. Deborah Warner, BBC, 1993 (based on the 1991 Abbey Theatre, Dublin production, starring Fiona Shaw): https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/plays/hedda-gabler-bbc-film-adaptation-iid-161414 and https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/bbc-studios/hedda-gabler

Hedda Gabler, dir. David Cunliffe, 1981 (starring Diana Rigg): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABXsAXyuZ7U&list=PLxWZiLAl9qFhVeuTDIaMMT2YTqeibwbgL

Hedda Gabler, dir. Waris Hussein, 1974 (starring Janet Suzman): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mp3R2gtNjo&list=PL0F4C6376C4D17A60

Hedda Gabler, dir. Alex Segal, 1962 (starring Ingrid Bergman): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tSqm4VMl3wY

The Seagull (in Russian, with English subtitles), dir. Yury Butusov, Stage Russia, 2019: https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/stage-russia/the-seagull

The Seagull, dir. Michael Mayer, 2018 (starring Saoirse Ronan, Annette Bening, Elizabeth Moss): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ws0cFCUIRUo [NB this is not free to access]

The Seagull, dir. Michael Lindsay-Hogg, BBC, 1978 (starring Michael Gambon): https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/bbc-studios/the-seagull

The Seagull, dir. Nikos Psacharopoulos, 1975 (starring Frank Langella, Blythe Danner): https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/broadway-digital-archive/the-seagull

See Hear: Spring Awakening on Broadway, BBC, 2016 (documentary about an American Sign Language production of the musical adaptation): https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/0C18F6EF?bcast=121167913

Spring Awakening: various bootleg recordings of the musical adaptation are available on YouTube!

Bertolt Brecht’s Galileo, dir. Joseph Losey, The American Film Theater, 1975: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K4LT5IaRhv8&list=PL23C18A32ECBB6695

Yerma, directed and adapted by Simon Stone, Young Vic Theatre, 2017 (starring Billie Piper in an updated loose adaptation of Lorca’s play): https://search.alexanderstreet.com/view/work/bibliographic_entity%7Cvideo_work%7C4167058?account_id=14888&usage_group_id=95063

Endgame, dir. Conor McPherson, Beckett on Film, 2000 (starring David Thewlis and Michael Gambon): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ok7Vc3jczNg

Endgame, dir. Tony Coe, 1989 (starring Norman Beaton and Stephen Rea): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dWY3wuYiTM8


Audio recordings, radio productions

Oedipus the King, Drama on 3, BBC, 2019: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/0E6E0AFA?bcast=129149688

Oedipus the King, LA Theatre Works, 2003: https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/plays/oedipus-the-king-iid-143134

Antigone, LA Theatre Works, 2005: https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/la-theatre-works/antigone

Tartuffe, Drama on 3, BBC, 2016: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/0103DF4B?bcast=122153537

Tartuffe, LA Theatre Works, 2010: https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/plays/tartuffe-iid-143051 and https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/la-theatre-works/tartuffe

Hedda Gabler, BBC Radio 4, 2013, directed by Psyche Stott from the Old Vic production starring Sheridan Smith: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/02FB3630?bcast=94472998

The Seagull, LA Theatre Works, 2012: https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/plays/the-seagull-iid-142861 and https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/la-theatre-works/the-seagull

The Seagull, Drama on 3, BBC, 2010: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/013B03F0?bcast=111166254

The Seagull, BBC Radio 4, 1993: https://learningonscreen.ac.uk/ondemand/index.php/prog/0D02F61A?bcast=122200172

Yerma, Drama on 3, BBC, 2014: https://moodle.warwick.ac.uk/mod/resource/view.php?id=894618

Art, LA Theatre Works, 2009: https://www.dramaonlinelibrary.com/plays/art-iid-143169 and https://www.digitaltheatreplus.com/education/collections/la-theatre-works/art