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Book SynopsisPerforming Greek Drama in Oxford is an absorbing celebration of the performance and reception of Greek drama in Oxford.
Trade Review... a carefully researched, often entertaining account of the reception of Greek drama. Bryn Mawr Classical Review, 09.37
Table of Contents
- Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction: performing antiquity in Oxford, 1500s-2000s
- 2 The academic drama in the humanist curriculum and culture of Oxford
- 2.1 William Gager's defence of acting
- 2.2 Catalogue of plays in the 16th and 17th centuries
- 3. 'The Young Men in Women's Clothes': from the classical burlesques of the 1860s to the 1880 Agamemnon
- 3.1 Classical burlesques in Oxford and the great London scandal
- 3.2 The 1880 Agamemnon and Jowett's sanction of drama
- 4. Productions in ancient Greek by OUDS, 1887-1914
- 4.1 Alcestis in 1887: melodrama in the New Theatre!
- 4.2 Aristophanes revitalized: music and 'stage business' in the 1892 Frogs
- 4.3 The importance of Hubert Parry's music in OUDS' Aristophanic tradition, 1897-1914
- 5. Women, war and Gilbert Murray
- 5.1 Robert Bridges' Demeter at Somerville College, 1904
- 5.2 Penelope Wheeler, Greek plays at the Front, and the Boars Hill Players
- 5.3 Sybil Thorndike and post-WWI productions of Murray's translations
- 6. OUDS, college and Playhouse productions, 1920s-1960s
- 7. The Balliol Players, 1923-1927: social idealism and performances for Thomas Hardy
- 8. Balliol Players, 1928-1939: 'a first-class excuse for legitimate vagabondage'
- 8.1 The end of one era, and the beginning of another
- 8.2 The film of the 1934 Ajax
- 8.3 Towards the Second World War
- 9. The Aristophanic Balliol Players, 1947-1977
- Bibliography
- Appendix 1. Production chronology
- Appendix 2. Prosopograph
- Appendix 3. Note on archival material in Balliol College, APGRD, and the Bodleian
- Index
