Pentheus torn apart by Agave and Ino. Attic red-figure lekanis (cosmetics bowl) lid, c. 450-425 BC (Louvre)
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Tragedy
Selected e-resources (Find links on the EFL website > Resources for Papers > Drama) Loeb Classical Library - Searchable virtual library of Greek and Latin literature. Includes single and dual-language reading modes and greek keyboard. Leeds International Classics Studies - A peer-reviewed on-line journal, associated with the Leeds International Classics Seminar. It publishes articles and interim discussion papers on all aspects of Greek and Roman antiquity, and of the history of the classical tradition. Classical Theatre and Drama - Web resource created by Professor Mark Damen of Utah State University. The Eumenides & The Libation Bearers - Public domain electronic copies of Aeschylus' The Eumenides & The Libation Bearers from the University of Oxford Text Archive. Didaskalia: Ancient Theatre Today - A peer-reviewed electronic journal dedicated to the study of all aspects of ancient Greek and Roman performance. Classical Mythology: An evolving web tool - Website of resources compiled for a course on Classical Mythology run by Professor William A Johnson at Bucknell University. Ancient Greek Theatre - Introduction to Ancient Greek Theatre written by Walter Englert (Omar & Althea Hoskins Professor of Classical Studies at Reed University). Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama (APGRD) - A research project based in the Classics Centre at the University of Oxford, investigating the performance of ancient texts, from Greek tragedy to Roman epic, from stage to screen, from antiquity to the present day.
Useful e-journals
Arion: A Journal of Humanities and the Classics: Available online via JSTOR from 1962-2009
The Drama Review (TDR): Available online; 1988 to the present
Shakespeare Survey: In print at P SHS in the EFL (basement rolling stacks); v.1 (1948) - v.65 (2012)
Useful introductory books Jennifer Wallace (2007), Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy O 026 CAM Cambridge Companions: (Available online via iDiscover) Greek Tragedy Gk 226 CAM Shakespearean Tragedy E 34 SHA Cam English Renaissance Tragedy E 326 CAM
Key ebooks (Find links on iDiscover) Oxford Classical Dictionary Tragedy: a very short introduction - Poole, Adrian Revenge tragedy: Aeschylus to Armageddon - Kerrigan, John A companion to Greek tragedy - Gregory, Justin (ed.) Early Modern tragicomedy - Mukherji, Subha & Lyne, Raphael (eds.) Ancient supplication - Naiden, F.S. Companion to Shakespeare's Works. Volume 1, Tragedies - Dutton, Richard (ed.) Crossroads in the black Aegeon: Oedipus, Antigone, and Dramas of the African Diaspora - Goff, Barbara Greek lyric, tragedy and textual criticism - Barrett, W.S. Greek tragedy in action - Taplin, Oliver Guilt by descent: moral inheritance and decision making in Greek edy - Sewell-Rutter, N.J.
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Radical tragedy: religion, ideology and power in the drama of Shakespeare and his contemporaries - Dollimore, Jonathan Shakespeare's festive tragedy - Liebler, Naomi Shakespearean tragedy - Bradley, A.C. Sweet violence: the idea of the tragic - Eagleton, Terry Victorian women writers and the Classics: the feminine of Homer - Hurst, Osobel Why does tragedy give pleasure? - Nuttall, A.D.
CDs & DVDs The Library DVD collection contains multiple versions of Shakespeare’s plays (Find them in the library basement Shakespeare Room). The EFL also has DVDs of the works of Chaucer, Beckett, Middleton’s The Revenger's Tragedy and Sophocles' Antigone. Also available are CD versions of The Canterbury Tales, various Shakespeare plays, and a number of operas. (Search iDiscover to find them).
Useful sections in the Faculty Library E 34 SHA – for Shakespeare (Library basement) Gk – for Greek (First floor) M 1 – for Theatre Studies (First floor) K – Art (First floor) L – Music (First floor)
Other relevant libraries & Museums in Cambridge Classics Library (Sidgwick) Pendlebury Music Library (Sidgwick) Divinity Library (Sidgwick) Art and Architecture Library (Trumpington St) African Studies Library (Sidgwick) Fitzwilliam Museum Museum of Classical Archaeology – Faculty of Classics CAMBRIDGE AUTHORS: Sylvia Plath and the Tragedy Paper http://www.english.cam.ac.uk/cambridgeauthors/