Greek and Roman Drama Bibliography (Porter), U. of Sask.

Greek and Roman Drama: A Bibliography
compiled by John Porter

For a list of journal abbreviations and call numbers, see the
Journals Relating to Classics in the University of Saskatchewan Libraries page.

GENERAL BACKGROUND
BIBLIOGRAPHIES
THE ORIGIN OF TRAGEDY
THE GREEK THEATER AND THEATRICAL PRODUCTION
GREEK TRAGEDY: GENERAL
AESCHYLUS
- General
- Agamemnon and the Oresteia
SOPHOCLES
EURIPIDES
ARISTOTLE POETICS
OLD COMEDY
ARISTOPHANES
MIDDLE COMEDY
NEW COMEDY
MENANDER
ROMAN DRAMA
PLAUTUS
TERENCE
SENECA
- General
- Medea

Please send corrections or emendations to john.porter@usask.ca.

GENERAL BACKGROUND

Howatson, M.C., ed. The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature. Second edition. Oxford and New York, 1989.
Bury, J.B. and R. Meiggs. A History of Greece to the Death of Alexander the Great. Fourth edition. London and Basingstoke, 1975.
Joint Association of Classical Teachers. The World of Athens. Cambridge, 1984.
Shipley, G., et al., eds. The Cambridge Dictionary of Classical Civilization. Cambridge, 2006.
Travlos, J. Pictorial Dictionary of Ancient Athens. New York, 1971.

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

Forman, R.J. Classical Greek and Roman Drama: An Annotated Bibliography. Salem Press, 1989.
The Classical World Bibliography of Greek Drama and Poetry. New York, 1978.
Wartelle, A. Bibliographie historique et critique d'Eschyle et de la tragedie grecque, 1518-1974. Paris, 1978.
Storey, I.C. "Old Comedy 1975-1984," EMC 31 (1987) 1-46.
Quicke, A.C. Aristophanes and Athenian Old Comedy. A Survey and Bibliography of Twentieth-Century Criticism. Thesis: London Library Association, 1982.
The Classical World Bibliography of Roman Drama and Poetry and Ancient Fiction. New York, 1978.
Hughes, J.D. A Bibliography of Scholarship in Plautus. Amsterdam, 1975.
Cupaiuolo, G. Bibliografia terenziana (1470-1983). Naples, 1984.
Motto, A.L. Seneca: A Critical Bibliography 1900-1980. Amsterdam, 1989.
Tables of Content of Interest to Classicists (TOCS-IN) (Link to Classics Resources on the Internet page)

THE ORIGIN OF TRAGEDY

Burkert, W. "Greek Tragedy and Sacrificial Ritual," GRBS 7 (1966) 87-121.
Calame, C. "From choral poetry to tragic stasimon: the enactment of women's song," Arion 3.1 (1994-1995) 136-54.
Connor, W.R. "City Dionysia and Athenian Democracy," C&M 40 (1989) 7-32.
Davidson, J.F. "The Circle and the Tragic Chorus," G&R 33 (1986) 38-46.
Ehrhardt, C.T.H.R. "Cleisthenes and Eleutherae?" AHB 4.2 (1990) 23.
Else, G.F. The Origin and Early Form of Greek Tragedy. Cambridge, Mass., 1965.
Herington, J. Poetry into Drama. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1985.
Lesky, A. Greek Tragic Poetry (cited below), chapter 1.
Murray, G. "Excursus on the Ritual Forms Preserved in Greek Tragedy," in J.E. Harrison Themis (second edition, Cambridge, 1927) 340-63.
Paléothodoros, D. "Pisistrate et Dionysos: mythes et réalités de l'érudition moderne," LEC 67 (1999) 321-40.
Pickard-Cambridge, A.W. Dithyramb Tragedy and Comedy. Second edition, revised by T.B.L. Webster. Oxford, 1962.
Pritchard, D. "Kleisthenes, Participation, and the Dithyrambic Contests of Late Archaic and Classical Athens," Phoenix 58 (2004) 208-21.
Winkler, J.J. "The Ephebes' Song: Tragôidia and Polis," Representations 11 (1985) 26-62. [Reprinted, with additions, in J.J. Winkler and F.I. Zeitlin eds., Nothing to Do with Dionysos? (Princeton, 1990) 20-62.]
Winnington-Ingram, R.P. et al. "Tragedy" (cited below) 258-63.

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THE GREEK THEATER AND THEATRICAL PRODUCTION

Arnott, P.D. An Introduction to the Greek Theatre. London, 1959.
Arnott, P.D. Greek Scenic Conventions in the Fifth Century B.C. Oxford, 1962.
Arnott, P.D. Public and Performance in the Greek Theatre. London and New York, 1989.
Bain, D. "Some Reflections on the Illusion of Greek Tragedy," BICS 34 (1987) 1-14.
Baldry, H.C. The Greek Tragic Theatre. New York and London, 1971.
Bieber, M. The History of the Greek and Roman Theatre. Second edition. Princeton, 1961. [useful illustrations, but caveat lector]
Brea, L.B. "Masks and Characters of the Greek Theatre in the Terracottas of Ancient Lipara," MedArch 5/6 (1992/1993) 23.
Calder III, W.M. "The Single-Performance Fallacy," Educ. Theatre Journ. 10 (1958) 237-39.
Calder III, W.M. "The Size of Thespis' Chorus," AJP 103 (1982) 319-20.
Carpenter, T.H., and C.A. Faraone. Masks of Dionysus. Ithaca, 1993. ISBN-0-8014-8062-0
Case, S. "Classic Drag: The Greek Creation of Female Parts," Theatre Journal 37 (1985) 317-27.
Cole, S.G. "Procession and Celebration at the Dionysia," in R. Scodel, ed., Theater and Society in the Classical World (Ann Arbor, 1993) 25-38.
Csapo, E. and W.J. Slater. The Context of Ancient Drama. Ann Arbor, 1995.
Csapo, E.G. "A Case Study in the Use of Theatre Iconography as Evidence for Ancient Acting," AK 36 (1993) 41-58.
Dale, A.M. "Seen and Unseen on the Greek Stage," in Collected Papers (Cambridge, 1969) 119-29.
Damen, M. "Actor and Character in Greek Tragedy," CW 71 (1977) 113-23.
Dawson, S.E. "The Theatrical Audience in Fifth-century Athens: Numbers and Status," Prudentia 29 (1997) 1-14.
Dillery, J. "Ephebes in the Stadium (Not the Theatre): Ath. Pol. 42.4 and IG II2.351," CQ 52 (2002) 462-70.
Dinsmoor, W.B. "The Athenian Theater of the Fifth Century," in Studies Presented to David Moore Robinson (St. Louis, 1951) I 309-30.
Else, G.F. "The Case of the Third Actor," TAPA 76 (1945) 1-10.
Finkelberg, M. "The City Dionysia and the Social Space of Attic Tragedy," in J. Davidson, F. Muecke, and P. Wilson, eds., Greek Drama III. Essays in Honour of Kevin Lee (London, 2006) 17-26.
Fitton-Brown, A.D. Greek Plays as First Productions. Leicester, 1970.
Gebhard, E. "The Form of the Orchestra in the Early Greek Theater," Hesperia 43 (1974) 428-40.
Goldhill, S. "Representing Democracy: Women at the Great Dionysia," in R. Osborne and S. Hornblower, eds., Ritual, Finance, Politics: Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis (Oxford, 1994) 347-69.
Goldhill, S.D. "The Great Dionysia and Civic Ideology," JHS 107 (1987) 58-76.
Green, J.R. "On Seeing and Depicting the Theatre in Classical Athens," GRBS 32 (1991) 15-50.
Green, J.R. "Theatre Production: 1971-1986," Lustrum 31 (1989) 7-95.
Green, J.R., A. Seeberg, and T.B.L. Webster. Monuments Illustrating New Comedy. Third edition, revised and enlarged. (BICS Suppl. 50.) London, 1995.
Green, J.R. Theatre in Ancient Greek Society. London, 1994.
Green, J.R. "The Persistent Phallos: Regional Variability in the Performance Style of Comedy," in J. Davidson, F. Muecke, and P. Wilson, eds., Greek Drama III. Essays in Honour of Kevin Lee (London, 2006) 141-62.
Halliwell, S. "The Function and Aesthetics of the Greek Tragic Mask," in N.W. Slater and B. Zimmermann, eds., Intertextualität in der griechisch-römischen Komödie (Stuttgart, 1993) 195-211.
Hammond, N.G.L. "More on Conditions of Production to the Death of Aeschylus," GRBS 29 (1988) 5-33.
Hammond, N.G.L. "The Conditions of Dramatic Production to the Death of Aeschylus," GRBS 13 (1972) 387-450.
Hammond, N.G.L. and W. Moon. "Illustrations of Early Tragedy at Athens," AJA 82 (1978) 371-83.
Henderson, J. "Women and the Athenian Dramatic Festivals," TAPA 121 (1991) 133-48.
Killeen, J.F. "The Comic Costume Controversy," CQ 21 (1971) 51-54.
Knox, B.M.W. "Aeschylus and the Third Actor," AJP 93 (1972) 104-24.
Lefkowitz, M. "Aristophanes and Other Historians of the Fifth Century Theater," Hermes 112 (1984) 143-53.
Marshall, C.W. "The Rule of Three Actors in Practice," Text and Presentation 15 (1994) 53-61.
Mastronarde, D. "Actors on High: The Skenê Roof, the Crane, and the Gods in Attic Drama," ClassAnt 9 (1990) 247-94.
Moretti, J.-C. "The Theater of the Sanctuary of Dionysus Eleuthereus in Late Fifth-Century Athens," ICS 24-25 (1999-2000) 377-98.
Neiiendam, K. The Art of Acting in Antiquity. Copenhagen, 1992.
Nünlist, R. The Ancient Critic at Work: Terms and Concepts of Literary Criticism in Greek Scholia. Cambridge, 2009.
O'Connor, J.B. Chapters in the History of Actors and Acting in Ancient Greece. New York, 1966.
Parke, H.W. Festivals of the Athenians. London, 1977.
Pickard-Cambridge, A.W. Dityramb Tragedy and Comedy (cited above).
Pickard-Cambridge, A.W. The Dramatic Festivals of Athens. Second edition, revised by J. Gould and D.M. Lewis. Oxford, 1968.
Pickard-Cambridge, A.W. The Theatre of Dionysus in Athens. Oxford, 1946.
Podlecki, A.J. "Could Women Attend the Theater in Ancient Athens? A Collection of Testimonia," AncW 21 (1990) 27-43.
Poe, J.P. "The Determination of Episodes in Greek Tragedy," AJP 114 (1993) 343-96.
Pope, M. "Athenian Festival Judges — Seven, Five or However Many," CQ 36 (1986) 322-26.
Postlewait, T., ed. The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Historiography. Cambridge, 2009.
Rothwell, K.S., Jr. "The Continuity of the Chorus in Fourth-Century Attic Comedy," in G. Dobrov, ed., Beyond Aristophanes: Transition and Diversity in Greek Comedy (Atlanta, 1995) 99-118.
Ruck, C. "Euripides' Mother: Vegetables and the Phallos," Arion n.s. 2 (1975) 13-58.
Scullion, J.S. Three Studies in Athenian Dramaturgy. Stuttgart, 1994.
Sear, F.B. "Vitruvius and Roman Theater Design," AJA 94 (1990) 249-58.
Simon, E. The Ancient Theater. London and New York, 1982.
Slater, N.W. "The Lenaean Theatre," ZPE 66 (1986) 255-64.
Sourvinou-Inwood, C. Tragedy and Athenian Religion. Lanham, 2003.
Sourvinou-Inwood, C. "Something to do with Athens: Tragedy and Ritual," in R. Osborne and S. Hornblower, eds., Ritual, Finance, Politics: Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis (Oxford, 1994) 269-290.
Taplin, O. Pots & plays: interactions between tragedy and Greek vase-painting of the fourth century B.C. Los Angeles, 2007.
Taplin, O. Comic Angels. Oxford, 1993.
Townsend, R.F. "The Fourth-Century Skenê of the Theater of Dionysos at Athens," Hesperia 55 (1986) 421-38.
Trendall, A.D. and T.B.L. Webster. Illustrations of Greek Drama. London, 1971.
Walton, J.M. Greek Theatre Practice. Westport and London, 1980.
Walsh, D. Distorted Ideals in Greek Vase-Painting. The World of Mythological Burlesque. Cambridge, 2009.
Webster, T.B.L. Greek Theatre Production. Second edition. London, 1970.
Webster, T.B.L. Monuments Illustrating Old and Middle Comedy. Third edition, revised and enlarged by J.R. Green. London, 1978.
Webster, T.B.L. Monuments Illustrating Tragedy and Satyr Play. Second edition. London, 1967.
West, M.L. "The Prometheus Trilogy," JHS 99 (1979) 130-48.
Wiles, D. Tragedy in Athens: Performance Space and Theatrical Meaning. Cambridge, 1997.
Wilson, P. Athenian Institution of the Khoregia. Cambridge, 2000.
Wilson, P., ed. The Greek Theatre and Festivals: Documentary Studies. Oxford, 2007.
Winnington-Ingram, R.P. et al. "Tragedy" (cited below) 263-81.
Winter, F.E. "The Stage of New Comedy," Phoenix 37 (1983) 38-47.

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GREEK TRAGEDY: GENERAL

Bain, D. "Some Reflections on the Illusion of Greek Tragedy," BICS 34 (1987) 1-14.
Brown, A.L. A New Companion to Greek Tragedy. Beckenham, 1983.
Dugdale, E. Greek Theatre in Context. Cambridge and New York, 2008.
Easterling, P.E., ed. The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy. Cambridge, 1997.
Easterling, P.E. "Tragedy and Ritual," in R. Scodel, ed., Theater and Society in the Classical World (Ann Arbor, 1993) 7-24.
Easterling, P.E. "Women in Tragic Space," BICS 34 (1987) 15-26.
Erp Taalman Kip, A.M. van. Reader and Spectator: Problems in the Interpretation of Greek Tragedy. Amsterdam, 1990.
Falkner, T.M. The Poetics of Old Age in Greek Epic, Lyric and Tragedy. Norman, 1995.
Finley, M.I. The Idea of a Theatre: The Greek Experience. British Museum Publications, 1980.
Foley, H.P. "The Conception of Women in Athenian Drama," in H.P. Foley ed., Reflections of Women in Antiquity (London, 1981) 127-68.
Gill, C. "The Question of Character and Personality in Greek Tragedy," Poetics Today 7 (1986) 251-73.
Goldhill, S. Reading Greek Tragedy. Cambridge, 1986.
Gould, J. "Dramatic Character and 'Human Intelligibility' in Greek Tragedy," PCPS 24 (1978) 43-67.
Garland, R. Surviving Greek Tragedy. London, 2004.
Gregory, J., ed. A Companion to Greek Tragedy. Oxford, 2005.
Green, J.R. Theatre in Ancient Greek Society. London, 1994.
Hall, E., F. Macintosh, and A. Wrigley, eds. Dionysus since 69: Greek tragedy at the dawn of the third millennium. Oxford, 2005.
Halporn, J.W. "Genre, Expectation, and Dramatic Criticism," AJP 110 (1989) 628-34.
Hartigan, K.V. Greek Tragedy on the American Stage. Ancient Drama in the Commercial Theater, 1882-1994. Westport, 1995.
Havelock, E.A. "The Oral Composition of Greek Drama," QUCC n.s. 6 (1980) 61-113.
Hawley, R., and B. Levick, eds. Women in Antiquity: New Assessments. London, 1995.
Heath, M. The Poetics of Greek Tragedy. London,1987.
Holst-Warhaft, G., Dangerous Voices: Women's Laments and Greek Literature. London, 1995.
Kitto, H.D.F. Greek Tragedy. Third edition. London and New York, 1961.
Lesky, A. Greek Tragic Poetry. (transl. M. Dillon) New Haven and London, 1983.
Ley, G. "Performance Studies in Greek Tragedy," Eranos 92 (1994) 29-45.
Mackinnon, K. Greek Tragedy into Film. London, 1986.
Mcauslan, I. and P. Walcot, eds. Greek Tragedy. Oxford, 1993
Meier, C. The Political Art of Greek Tragedy. Baltimore, 1993.
Mikalson, J.D. Honor thy Gods. Popular Religion in Greek Tragedy. Chapel Hill, 1991.
Mueller, M. Children of Oedipus and Other Essays on the Imitation of Greek Tragedy 1550-1800. Toronto, 1980.
Padel, R. Whom Gods Destroy: Elements of Greek and Tragic Madness. Princeton, 1995.
Postlewait, T., ed. The Cambridge Introduction to Theatre Historiography. Cambridge, 2009.
Rabinowitz, N.S. and A. Richlin, eds. Feminist Theory and the Classics. New York, 1993.
Rehm, R. Marriage to Death: The Conflation of Wedding and Funeral Rituals in Greek Tragedy. Princeton, 1994.
Seaford, R. Reciprocity and Ritual: Homer and Tragedy in the Developing City-State. Oxford, 1995.
Segal, C. "Tragic Beginnings: Narration, Voice, and Authority in the Prologues of Greek Drama," YCS 29 (1992) 85-112.
Segal, E., ed. Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy. Oxford, 1983.
Sípová, P.N., and A. Sarkissian, Staging of Classical Drama Around 2000. Newcastle, 2007.
Slater, N.W. "From Ancient Performance to New Historicism," in N.W. Slater and B. Zimmermann, eds., Intertextualität in der griechisch-römischen Komödie (Stuttgart, 1993) 1-13.
Slater, N.W. "The Idea of the Actor," in J.J. Winkler and F.I. Zeitlin eds., Nothing to Do with Dionysus? (Princeton, 1990) 385-95.
Stanford, W.B. Greek Tragedy and the Emotions. London and Boston, 1983.
Taplin, O. Greek Tragedy in Action. Second edition. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 2003.
Vickers, B. Towards Greek Tragedy. London, 1973.
Walcott, P. Greek Drama in its Theatrical and Social Context. Cardiff, 1976.
Walton, J.M. The Greek Sense of Theatre. London and New York, 1984.
Winnington-Ingram, R.P. et al. "Tragedy," in The Cambridge History of Ancient Literature, I: Greek Literature (Cambridge, 1985) 258-345.
Zeitlin, F.I. "Playing the Other: Theater, Theatricality, and the Feminine in Greek Drama," in J.J. Winkler and F.I. Zeitlin, eds., Nothing to Do with Dionysus? (Princeton, 1990) 63-96.
Zeitlin, F.I. Playing the Other: Gender and Society in Classical Greek Literature. Chicago, 1996.

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AESCHYLUS

General

Caldwell, R.S. "The Pattern of Aeschylean Tragedy," TAPA 101 (1970) 77-94.
Easterling, P.E. "Presentation of Character in Aeschylus," G&R 20 (1973) 3-19.
Else, G.F. "Ritual and Drama in Aeschylean Tragedy," ICS 2 (1977) 70-87.
Gantz, T. "Inherited Guilt in Aeschylus," CJ 78 (1982) 1-23.
Gargarin, M. Aeschylean Drama. Berkeley, Los Angeles and London, 1976.
Herington, J. Aeschylus. New Haven and London, 1986.
Hogan, J.C. A Commentary on The Complete Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus. Chicago and London, 1984.
Ireland, S. Aeschylus. Oxford, 1986.
Lloyd-Jones, H. "Zeus in Aeschylus," JHS 76 (1956) 55-67.
McCall, M. Jr., ed. Aeschylus. Englewood Cliffs, 1972.
Podlecki, A.J. The Political Background of Aeschylean Tragedy. Ann Arbor, 1966.
Robertson, H.G. "The Hybristês in Aeschylus," TAPA 98 (1967) 373-82.
Rosenmeyer, T.G. The Art of Aeschylus. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1982.
Spatz, L. Aeschylus. Boston, 1982.
Taplin, O. The Stagecraft of Aeschylus. Oxford, 1977.
Winnington-Ingram, R.P. Studies in Aeschylus. Cambridge, 1983.

Agamemnon and the Oresteia

Andersen, O. "Agamemnon's Singer (Od. 3.262-272)," SO 67 (1992) 5-26.
Athanassaki, L. "Choral and Prophetic Discourse in the First Stasimon of the Agamemnon," CJ 89 (1994) 149-62.
Betensky, A. "Aeschylus' Oresteia: The Power of Clytemnestra," Ramus 7 (1978) 11-25.
Bloom, H., ed. Aeschylus's The Oresteia. New York, 1988.
Bowie, A. "Religion and Politics in Aeschylus' Oresteia," CQ 43 (1993) 10-31.
Bremmer, J.N. "Agamemnon's Death in the Bath: Some Parallels," Mnemosyne 39 (1986) 418.
Burian, P. "Zeus Soter Tritos and Some Triads in Aeschylus' Oresteia," AJP 107 (1986) 332-42.
Clark, M.S., and E. Csapo. "Deconstruction, Ideology, and Goldhill's Oresteia," Phoenix 45 (1991) 95-125.
Clinton, K. "Artemis and the Sacrifice of Iphigeneia in Aeschylus' Agamemnon," in P. Pucci, ed., Language and the Tragic Hero (Atlanta, 1988) 1-24.
Cohen, D. "The Theodicy of Aeschylus: Justice and Tyranny in the Oresteia," G&R 33 (1986) 129-41.
Cole, J.R. "The Oresteia and Cimon," HSCP 81 (1977) 99-111.
Conacher, D.J. "Interaction between Chorus and Character in the Oresteia," AJP 95 (1974) 323-43.
Conacher, D.J. Aeschylus' Oresteia. Toronto, 1987.
Crane, G. "Politics of Consumption and Generosity in the Carpet Scene of the Agamemnon," CP 88 (1993) 117-36.
Davies, M.I. "Thoughts on the Oresteia before Aeschylus," BCH 93 (1969) 214-60.
Dodds, E.R. "Morals and Politics in the Oresteia," in The Ancient Concept of Progress (Oxford, 1973) 43-63.
Dover, K.J. "Some Neglected Aspects of Agamemnon's Dilemma," JHS 93 (1973) 58-69.
Easterling, P. E. "Presentation of Character in Aeschylus," G&R 20 (1973) 3-19.
Edwards, M.W. "Agamemnon's Decision: Freedom and Folly in Aeschylus," Calif. Studs. in ClAnt 10 (1977) 17-37.
Elata-Alster, G. "The King's Double Bind: Paradoxical Communication in the Parodos of Aeschylus' Agamemnon," Arethusa 18 (1985) 23-46.
Ewans, M. "Agamemnon at Aulis: A Study in the Oresteia," Ramus 4 (1975) 17-32.
Ferrari, G. "Figures in the Text: Metaphors and Riddles in the Agamemnon," CP 92 (1997) 1-45
Flaumenhaft, M.J. "Seeing Justice Done. Aeschylus' Oresteia," Interpretation 17 (1989) 69-109.
Fletcher, J. "Choral Voice and Narrative in the First Stasimon of Aeschylus Agamemnon," Phoenix 53 (1999) 29-49.
Fletcher, J. "Exchanging Glances: Vision and Representation in Aeschylus' Agamemnon," Helios 26 (1999) 11-34.
Flintoff, E. "The Treading of the Cloth," QUCC 54 (1987) 119-30.
Fontenrose, J. "Gods and Men in the Oresteia," TAPA 102 (1971) 71-109.
Fox, R. Reproduction and Succession. New Brunswick, 1993.
Furley, W.D. "Motivation in the Parodos of Aeschylus' Agamemnon," CP 81 (1986) 109-21.
Gantz, T. "The Chorus of Aischylos' Agamemnon," HSCP 87 (1983) 65-86.
Gantz, T. "The Fires of the Oresteia," JHS 97 (1977) 28-38.
Goldhill, S. Aeschylus: The Oresteia. Cambridge, 1992.
Goldhill, S. Language, Sexuality, Narrative: The Oresteia. Cambridge, 1984.
Griffith, M. "Brilliant Dynasts: Power and Politics in the Oresteia," ClAnt 14 (1995) 62.
Griffith, R.D. "Disrobing in the Oresteia," CQ 38 (1988) 552-54.
Griffith, R.D. "Pos liponaus genomai ...? (Aeschylus, Agamemnon 212)," AJP 112 (1991) 173-77.
Hammond, N.G.L. "Personal freedom and its Limitations in the Oresteia," JHS 85 (1965) 42-55.
Heath, J. "The Omen of the Eagles and Hare (Agamemnon 104-59): from Aulis to Argos and Back Again," CQ 51 (2001) 18-22.
Heath, J. "The serpent and the sparrows: Homer and the Parodos of Aeschylus' Agamemnon," CQ 49 (1999) 396-407.
Herington, J. "The Marriage of Earth and Sky in Aeschylus, Agamemnon 1388-1392," Greek Tragedy and Its Legacy (1986) 27-33.
Knox, B.M.W. "The Lion in the House," CP 47 (1952) 17-25.
Komar, K.L. Reclaiming Klytemnestra: Revenge or Reconciliation. Urbana, 2003.
Konishi, H. "Agamemnon's Reasons for Yielding," AJP 110 (1989) 210-22.
Konishi, H. The Plot of Aeschylus' Oresteia. A Literary Commentary. Amsterdam, 1990.
Kovacs, D. "The Way of a God with a Maid in Aeschylus' Agamemnon," CP 82 (1987) 326-34.
Kuhns, R. The House, the City and the Judge. Indianapolis, 1962.
Lavery, J. "Clytaimestra's negatives and the final line of Agamemnon," BICS 47 (2004) 57-78.
Lawrence, S.E. "Artemis in the Agamemnon," AJP 97 (1976) 97-110.
Leahy, D.M. "The Representation of the Trojan War in Aeschylus' Agamemnon," AJP 95 (1974) 1-23.
Leahy, D.M. "The Role of Cassandra in the Agamemnon of Aeschylus," Bulletin of John Rylands Library 52 (1969) 144-77.
Lebeck, A. The Oresteia. Cambridge [Mass.], 1971.
Lloyd-Jones, H. "Artemis and Iphigeneia," JHS 103 (1983) 87-102.
Lloyd-Jones, H. "The Guilt of Agamemnon," CQ 12 (1962) 187-99. [also in Segal, Oxford Readings]
Lloyd-Jones, H. transl. and comm. Aeschylus: Agamemnon. Englewood Cliffs, 1970.
Mace, S. "Why the Oresteia's Sleeping Dead Won't Lie. Part I: Agamemnon," CJ 98 (2002) 35-56.
Macintosh, F., P. Michelakis, E. Hall, and O. Taplin. Agamemnon in Performance: 458 BC to AD 2004. Oxford, 2005.
Macleod, C.W. "Politics and the Oresteia," JHS 102 (1982) 124-44.
Marshall, C.W. "The Next Time Agamemnon Died," CW 95 (2001) 59-63.
McNeil, L. "Bridal cloths, cover-ups, and kharis: the 'carpet scene' in Aeschylus' Agamemnon," G&R 52 (2005) 1-17.
Meridor, R. "Aeschylus, Agamemnon 944-57: Why Does Agamemnon Give In?" CP 82 (1987) 38-43.
Molyneux, J.H., ed. Literary Responses to Civil Discord. Nottingham Classical Literature Studies vol.1, 1992 (Nottingham 1993).
Morgan, K.A. "Apollo's Favorites," GRBS 35 (1994) 121-44.
Morrell, K.S. "The Fabric of Persuasion: Clytaemnestra, Agamemnon, and the Sea of Garments," CJ 92 (1997) 141-65.
Nappa, C. "Agamemnon 717-36: The Parable of the Lion Cub," Mnemosyne 47 (1994) 82.
Peradotto, J.J. "Some Patterns of Nature Imagery in the Oresteia," AJP 85 (1964) 378-93.
Peradotto, J.J. "The Omen of the Eagles and the Ethos of Agamemnon," Phoenix 23 (1969) 237-63.
Pope, M. "Merciful Heavens? A Question in Aeschylus' Agamemnon," JHS 94 (1974) 100-13.
Pope, M. "The Democratic Character of Aeschylus' 'Agamemnon'," Greek Tragedy and Its Legacy (1986) 13-26.
Prag, A.J.N.W. The Oresteia. Iconographic and Narrative Tradition. Warminster, 1985.
Quincey, J.H. "The Beacon-Sites in the Agamemnon," JHS 83 (1963) 118-32.
Rehm, R. "Aeschylus and Performance: A Review of the National Theatre's Oresteia," in J. Redmond, ed., Themes in Drama 7: Drama, Sex and Politics (Cambridge, 1985) 229-48.
Robbins, E. "Pindar's Oresteia and the Tragedians," in M.J. Cropp, E. Fantham, S.E. Scully, eds., Greek Tragedy and its Legacy (Calgary, 1986) 1-11.
Roberts, D.H. Apollo and his Oracle in the Oresteia. Göttingen, 1984.
Romilly, J. de. "Agamemnon in Doubt and Hesitation," in P. Pucci, ed., Language and the Tragic Hero (Atlanta, 1988) 25-37.
Roth, P. "The Theme of Corrupted Xenia in Aeschylus' Oresteia," Mnemosyne 46 (1993) 1-17.
Sailor, D. and S.C. Stroup. "PHTHONOS D' APESTO: The Translation of Transgression in Aiskhylos' Agamemnon," ClAnt 18 (1999) 153-82.
Schein, S. "The Cassandra Scene in Aeschylus' Agamemnon," G&R 29 (1982) 11-16.
Schenker, D.J. "The Chorus' Hymn to Zeus: Aeschylus, Agamemnon 160-83," SyllClass 5 (1994) 1-8.
Schenker, D.J. "A Study in Choral Character: Aeschylus, Agamemnon 489-502," TAPA 121 (1991) 63-74.
Scott, W.C. "Comedy in the Oresteia?" in K.V. Hartigan, ed., Legacy of Thespis: Drama Past and Present vol. IV (Lanham, 1984) 67-73.
Scott, W.C. "The Confused Chorus (Agamemnon 975-1034)," Phoenix 23 (1969) 336ff.
Seaford, R. "The Last Bath of Agamemnon," CQ 34 (1984) 247-54.
Sider, D. "Stagecraft in the Oresteia," AJP 99 (1978) 12-27.
Simon, B. Tragic Drama and the Family. New Haven, 1988.
Simpson, H. "Why Does Agamemnon Yield?" PP 26 (1971) 94-101.
Smith, P.M. On the Hymn to Zeus in Aeschylus' Agamemnon. Ann Arbor, 1980.
Steiner, D. "Eyeless in Argos: a reading of Agamemnon 416-19," JHS 115 (1995) 175ff.
Tarkow, T.A. "Thematic Implications of Costuming in the Oresteia," Maia 32 (1980) 153-65.
Thalmann, W.G. "Speech and Silence in the Oresteia 1: Agamemnon 1025-1029," Phoenix 39 (1985) 99ff.
Tracy, S.V. "Darkness from Light: The Beacon Fire in the Agamemnon," CQ 36 (1986) 257-60.
Vellacott, P. "Has Good Prevailed? A Further Study of the Oresteia," HSCP 81 (1977) 113-22.
Vellacott, P. The Logic of Tragedy. Durham, 1984.
Whallon, W. "Why is Artemis Angry?" AJP 82 (1961) 78-88.
Whallon, W. Problem and Spectacle: Studies in the Oresteia. Heidelberg, 1980.
Wilson, J.R. "Unsocial Actors in Agamemnon," Hermes 123 (1995) 398ff.
Winnington-Ingram, R.P. "Clytemnestra and the Vote of Athena," JHS 68 (1948) 130-47.
Wyatt, W.F. "Agamemnon's Deception," SyllClass 13 (2002) 1-18.
Zeitlin, F. "Postscript to Sacrificial Imagery in the Oresteia (Ag. 1235-7)," TAPA 97 (1966) 645-53.
Zeitlin, F. "The Dynamics of Mysogyny: Myth and Mythmaking in the Oresteia," Arethusa 11 (1978) 149-84. [also in Bloom]
Zeitlin, F. "The Motif of the Corrupt Sacrifice in Aeschylus' Oresteia," TAPA 96 (1965) 463-508.

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SOPHOCLES

General

Adams, S.M. Sophocles the Playwright. Toronto, 1957.
Beer, J. Sophocles and the Tragedy of Athenian Democracy. Westport, 2004.
Blundell, M.W. Helping Friends and Harming Enemies: A Study in Sophocles and Greek Ethics. Cambridge, 1989.
Bowra, C.M. Sophoclean Tragedy. Oxford, 1944.
Burton, R.W.B. The Chorus in Sophocles' Tragedies. Oxford, 1980.
Bushnell, R.W. Prophesying Tragedy. Ithaca and London, 1988.
Buxton, R.G. Sophocles. Oxford, 1984.
Ehrenberg, V. Sophocles and Pericles. Oxford, 1954.
Gardiner, C.P. The Sophoclean Chorus. Iowa City, 1987.
Gellie, G.H. Sophocles. Melbourne, 1972.
Kirkwood, G.M. A Study of Sophoclean Drama. Ithaca, 1958. [Reprinted and updated: 1994.]
Knox, B.M.W. The Heroic Temper. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1964.
Opstelten, J.C. Sophocles and Greek Pessimism. Amsterdam, 1952.
Scodel, R. Sophocles. Boston, 1984.
Seale, D. Vision and Stagecraft in Sophocles. Chicago and London, 1982.
Segal, C.P. Sophocles' Tragic World: Divinity, Nature, Society. Harvard, 1995.
Segal, C.P. Tragedy and Civilization. Cambridge, Mass. and London, 1981.
Whitman, C.H. Sophocles. Cambridge, Mass., 1951.
Winnington-Ingram, R.P. Sophocles. Cambridge, 1980.
Woodard, T., ed. Sophocles. Englewood Cliffs, 1966.

Antigone

Benardete, S. "A Reading of Sophocles' Antigone," Interpretation 5 (1975) 148-84.
Bennett, L.J., and W.B. Tyrrell. "What is Antigone wearing?" CW 85 (1991) 107-09.
Bennett, L.J., and W.B. Tyrell. "Sophocles' Antigone and Funeral Oratory," AJP 111 (1990) 441-56.
Bovard, K. "Antigone, Sophocles: Righteous Activist or Confrontational Madwoman: Sophocles' Antigone," in J. Fisher and E.S. Silber, eds., Women in Literature: Reading through the Lens of Gender (Westport, 2003) 18-21.
Brown, A.L. ed. Sophocles: Antigone. Warminster, 1987.
Calder III, W.M. "The Protagonist of Sophocles' Antigone," Arethusa 4 (1971) 49-52.
Craik, E.M. "Unwritten Laws," LCM 18 (1993) 123-25.
Crane, G. "Creon and the 'Ode to Man' in Sophocles' Antigone," HSCP 92 (1989) 103-16.
Ditmars, E. van nes. Sophocles' Antigone: Lyric Shape and Meaning. Pisa, 1992.
Easterling, P.E. "Character in Sophocles," G&R 24 (1977) 121-29.
Foley, H.P. "Tragedy and Democratic Ideology: The Case of Sophocles' Antigone," in B. Goff, ed., History, Tragedy, Theory. Dialogues on Athenian Drama (Austin, 1995) 131-50.
Goheen, R.F. The Imagery of Sophocles' Antigone. Princeton, 1951.
Hamilton, J.D.B. "Antigone: Kinship, Justice, and the Polis," in D.C.Pozzi and J.M.Wickersham, eds., Myth and the Polis (Ithaca, 1991) 86-98.
Hester, D, "The Central Character(s) of the Antigone and their Relationship to the Chorus," Ramus 15 (1986) 74-81.
Hester, D.A. "Law and Piety in the Antigone," WS 14 (1980) 5-11.
Jost, L.J. "Antigone's Engagement: A Theme Delayed," LCM 8 (1983) 134-36.
Kott, J. "Why did Antigone kill herself?" New Theatre Quarterly 9 (1993) 107-9.
Lewis, R.G. "An Alternative Date for Sophocles' Antigone," GRBS 29 (1988) 35-50.
Lloyd-Jones, H. "Tycho von Wilamowitz-Moellendorf on the Dramatic Technique of Sophocles," CQ 22 (1972) 214-28.
Maitland, J. "Dynasty and Family in the Athenian City State: A View from Attic Tragedy," CQ 42 (1992) 26-40.
McDevitt, A.S. "Mythological Exempla in the Fourth Stasimon of Sophocles' Antigone," WS 103 (1990) 31-48.
McDevitt, A.S. "Wrong again, or Who'd be a Chorus (Sophocles, Antigone)," LCM 16 (1991) 71.
Morwood, J. "The Double Time Scheme in Antigone," CQ 43 (1993) 320-21.
Murnaghan, S. "Antigone 904-20 and the Institution of Marriage," AJP 107 (1986) 192-207.
Neuburg, M. "How Like a Woman: Antigone's Inconsistency," CQ 40 (1990) 54-76.
Oudemans, C.W. and A.P.M.H. Lardinois. Tragic Ambiguity: Anthropology, Philosophy and Sophocles' Antigone. Leiden, 1987.
Podlecki, A.J. "Another Look at Character in Sophocles," in Daidalikon. Studies in memory of Raymond V. Schoder (R.F. Sutton, Jr. ed., Wauconda [Ill.], 1989) 279-94.
Porter, J.R. "The Setting of the Prologue of Sophocles' Antigone," in J.R.C. Cousland and J.R. Hume, eds., The Play of Texts and Fragments: Essays in Honour of Martin Cropp (Leiden) 335-43.
Pozzi, D. "The Metaphor of Sacrifice in Sophocles' Antigone 853-856," Hermes 117 (1989) 50-05.
Rothans, R.M. "The Single Burial of Polyneices," CJ 85 (1990) 209-17.
Scullion, S. "Tragic dates," CQ 52 (2002) 81-101.
Seaford, R. "The Imprisonment of Women in Greek Tragedy," JHS 110 (1990) 76-90.
Segal, C.P. "Sophocles' Praise of Man and the Conflicts of the Antigone," in Woodard, op. cit., 62-85.
Shelton, J.-A. "Human Knowledge and Self-Deception: Creon as the Central Character of Sophocles's Antigone," Ramus 13 (1984) 102-23.
Sorum, C.E. "The Family in Sophocles' Antigone and Electra," CW 75 (1982) 201-11.
Sourvinou-Inwood, C. "Assumptions and the Creation of Meaning: Reading Sophocles' Antigone," JHS 109 (1989) 134-48.
Sourvinou-Inwood, C. "The Fourth Stasimon of Sophocles' Antigone," BICS 36 (1989) 141-66.
Taylor, D. "First Performance of Antigone," in Acting and the Stage (London, 1978) 30-42.
Thomas, C.G. "Sophocles, Pericles and Creon," CW 69 (1975-1976) 120-22.
Tyrrell, W.B., and L.J. Bennett. Recapturing Sophocles' Antigone. Lanham, 1998.
Viketos, E. "A Note on Creon's Edict in Sophocles' Antigone," Hermes 116 (1988) 485-86.
Wilkins, J. and Macleod, M. Sophocles Antigone and Oedipus the King. Bristol, 1987.

Electra

Baldry, op. cit., chapter 8
Davidson, J.F. "Homer and Sophocles' Electra," BICS 35 (1989) 45-72.
Davidson, J.F. "The Daughters of Agamemnon (Soph. El. 153-163)," RhM 133 (1990) 407-09.
Davidson, J.F. "The Sophoclean Axe," RhM 133 (1990) 410.
Davies, M. "The Three Electras: Strauss, Hofmannsthal, Sophocles, and the Tragic Vision," A&A 45 (1999) 36-65.
DeForest, M. "Gods in Livery," CB 65 (1989) 71-76.
de Wet, B.X. "The Electra of Sophocles: A Study in Social Values," AClass 20 (1977) 23-36.
Ewans, M. "Dominance and Submission, Rhetoric and Sincerity: Insights from a Production of Sophocles' Electra," Helios 27 (2000) 123-36.
Finkelberg, M. "Motherhood or status? Editorial choices in Sophocles, Electra 187," CQ 53 (2003) 368-76.
Grote, D.A. "Electra or Chysothemis: The Assignment of Sophocles' Electra 428-30," CJ 86 (1990-1991) 139-43.
Harder, M.A. "'Right' and 'Wrong' in the Electras," Hermathena 159 (1995) 15-31.
Hester, D.A. "Some Deceptive Oracles: Sophocles, Electra 32-7," Antichthon 15 (1981) 15-25.
Juffras, D.M. "Sophocles' Electra 973-85 and Tyrannicide," TAPA 121 (1991) 99-108.
Kells, J. H., ed. Sophocles: Electra. Cambridge, 1973.
Kells, J.H. "Sophocles' Electra Revisited," in J.H. Betts, J.T. Hooker, and J.R. Green, eds., Studies in Honour of T.B.L. Webster, vol. I (Bristol, 1986) 153-60.
Konstan, D. "Oedipus and his Parents: The Biological Family from Sophocles to Dryden," Scholia 3 (1994) 3-23.
Lardinois, A.P.M.H. "Dubious Advice: The Paedagogus in Sophocles' Electra," in A.P.M.H. Lardinois, M.G.M. van der Poel, and V.J.C. Hunink, eds., Land of Dreams. Greek and Latin Studies in Honour of A.H.M. Kessels (Leiden and Boston, 2006) 106-15.
March, J., ed. and tr. Sophocles: Electra. Warminster, 2001.
Marshall, C.W. "How to Write a Messenger Speech (Sophocles, Electra 680-763)," in J. Davidson, F. Muecke, and P. Wilson, eds., Greek Drama III. Essays in Honour of Kevin Lee (London, 2006) 203-22.
McDevitt, A.S. "Shame, Honour and the Hero in Sophocles' Electra," Antichthon 17 (1983) 1-12.
Okell, E. "Orestes the Contender: Chariot Racing and Politics in Fifth Century Athens and Sophocles' Electra," in S. Bell, Glenys Davies, eds., Games and Festivals in Classical Antiquity (Oxford, 2004) 33-44.
Owen, A.S. "The Date of the Electra of Sophocles," Greek Poetry and Life C. Bailey, E.A. Barber, et al., eds., Greek Poetry and Life. Essays Presented to Gilbert Murray on His Seventieth Birthday (Oxford, 1936) 145-57.
Podlecki, A.J. "Four Electras," Florilegium 3 (1981) 21-46.
Ringer, M. Electra and the Empty Urn. Metatheater and Role Playing in Sophocles. Chapel Hill and London, 1998.
Schein, S.L. "Electra, a Sophoclean Problem Play," A&A 28 (1982) 69-80.
Segal, C. P. "Tragedy, Corporeality, and the Texture of Language: Matricide in the Three Electra Plays," CW 79 (1985) 7-23.
Smith, C.S. "The Meanings of Kairos in Sophocles' Electra," CJ 85 (1990) 341-43.
Sorum, C.E. "The Family in Sophocles' Antigone and Electra," CW 75 (1982) 201-11.
Swart, G. "Dramatic Function of the Agon Scene in the Electra of Sophocles," AClass 27 (1984) 23-29.
Wheeler, G. "Gender and transgression in Sophocles' Electra," CQ 53 (2003) 377-88.
Winnington-Ingram, R.P. "Sophocles' Electra: Prolegomena to an Interpretation," PCPS 3 (1954-1955) 20-26. [also in Segal, Oxford Readings]
Wright, M. "The Joy of Sophocles' Electra," G&R 52 (2005) 172-94.

Philoctetes

Affleck, J., tr. Sophocles: Philoctetes. Cambridge, 2001.
Avery, H.C. "Heracles, Philoctetes, Neoptolemus," Hermes 93 (1965) 279-97.
Bellinger, A.R. "Achilles' Son and Achilles," YCS 6 (1939) 3-13.
Beye, C.R. "Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Homeric Embassy," TAPA 101 (1970) 63-75.
Bloom, H., ed. Sophocles. Philadelphia, 2003.
Blundell, M.W. "The Moral Character of Odysseus in Philoctetes," GRBS 28 (1987) 307-29.
Blundell, M.W. "The Phusis of Neoptolemus in Sophocles' Philoctetes," G&R 35 (1988) 137-48.
Blundell, M.W. Helping Friends and Harming Enemies. Cambridge, 1989.
Calder, W.M., III. "Sophoclean Apologia: Philoctetes," GRBS 12 (1971) 153-74.
Craik, E. "The Staging of Sophocles' Philoctetes and Aristophanes' Birds," in Owls to Athens. Essays on classical subjects presented to Sir Kenneth Dover (Oxford, 1990) 81-84.
Craik, E.M. "Philoctetes: Sophoclean Melodrama," AC 48 (1979) 15-29.
Craik, E.M. "Sophokles and the Sophists," AC 49 (1980) 247-54.
Easterling, P.E. "Philoctetes and Modern Criticism," ICS 3 (1978) 27-39. [= E. Segal, ed., Oxford Readings in Greek Tragedy (Oxford, 1983) 217-28.]
Garvie, A.F. "Deceit, Violence and Persuasion in the Philoctetes," in Studi Classici in Onore di Quintino Cataudella (Catania, 1972) 1.213-26.
Greengard, C. Theatre in Crisis. Sophocles' Reconstruction of Genre and Politics in Philoctetes. Amsterdam, 1987.
Hamilton, R. "Neoptolemos' Story in Philoctetes," AJP 96 (1975) 131-37.
Harrison, S.J. "Sophocles and the Cult of Philoctetes," JHS 109 (1989) 173-75.
Harsh, P.W. "The Role of the Bow in the Philoctetes of Sophocles," AJP 81 (1960) 408-14.
Kiso, A. The Lost Sophocles (New York, 1984), chapter 4, pp. 87-109.
Kosak, J.C. "The Male Interior: Strength, Illness, and Masculinity in Sophocles' Philoctetes," in J. Davidson, F. Muecke, and P. Wilson, eds., Greek Drama III. Essays in Honour of Kevin Lee (London, 2006) 49-64.
Ley, G. "A Scenic Plot of Sophocles' Ajax and Philoctetes," Eranos 86 (1988) 85-115.
Mandel, O. Philoctetes and the Fall of Troy. Lincoln [Neb.], 1981.
Martin, R.A. "Metaphysical Realism in Philoctetes," CML 13 (1993) 127-38.
Nussbaum, M.C. "Consequences and Character in Sophocles' Philoctetes," Phil Lit 1 (1976-77) 25-53.
O'Higgins, D. "Narrators and Narrative in the Philoctetes of Sophocles," Ramus 20 (1991) 37-52.
Poe, J.P. Heroism and divine justice in Sophocles' Philoctetes. Leiden, 1974.
Roberts, D.H. "Different Stories: Sophoclean Narrative(s) in the Philoctetes," TAPA 119 (1989) 161-76.
Roisman, H. Sophocles, Philoctetes. London, 2005.
Ryzman, M. "Neoptolemus' Psychological Crisis and the Development of Physis in Sophocles' Philoctetes," Eranos 89 (1991) 35-41.
Schein, S.L. "The Iliad and Odyssey in Sophocles' Philoctetes: Generic Complexity and Ethical Ambiguity," in J. Davidson, F. Muecke, and P. Wilson, eds., Greek Drama III. Essays in Honour of Kevin Lee (London, 2006) 129-40.
Stanford, W.B. The Ulysses Theme. Second edition. Oxford, 1963.
Stephens, J.C. "The Wound of Philoctetes," Mnemosyne 48 (1995) 153
Stokes, M.C. "Two Questions on Sophocles' Philoctetes," in Language and the Tragic Hero (P. Pucci ed. Atlanta, 1988) 155-74.
Taplin, O. "The Mapping of Sophocles' Philoctetes," BICS 34 (1987) 69-77.
Tessitore, A. "Justice, Politics, and Piety in Sophocles' Philoctetes," The Review of Politics 65 (2003) 61-88.
Ussher, R.G., ed. Sophocles, Philoctetes. Warminster, 1990.
Vidal-Naquet, P. "Sophocles' Philoctetes and the Ephebeia," in J.-P. Vernant and P. Vidal-Naquet, Tragedy and Myth in Ancient Greece (Atlantic Highlands, 1981) 175-99.

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EURIPIDES

General

Arrowsmith, W. "A Greek Theater of Ideas," in Segal Euripides (below) 13-33.
Barlow, S. The Imagery of Euripides. Second edition. London, 1986.
Bloom, H. Euripides: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide. Philadelphia, 2003.
Burian, P., ed. Directions in Euripidean Criticism. Durham, 1985.
Burnett, A.P. Catastrophe Survived. Oxford, 1971.
Collard, C. Euripides. Oxford, 1981.
Conacher, D.J. Euripidean Drama. Toronto, 1967.
Dodds, E.R. "Euripides the Irrationalist," in The Ancient Concept of Progress (Oxford, 1973) 78-91.
Eisner, R. "Euripides' Use of Myth," Arethusa 12 (1979) 153-74.
Foley, H. Ritual Irony. Ithaca, 1985.
Gregory, J. Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians. Ann Arbor, 1991.
Grube, G.M.A. The Drama of Euripides. London, 1941.
Halleran, M. Stagecraft in Euripides. London and Sydney, 1985.
Knox, B.M.W. "New Persepctives in Euripidean Criticism," CP 67 (1972) 270-79.
Kovacs, D. Euripidea. Leiden, 1994.
Lefkowitz, M.R. "'Impiety' and 'Atheism' in Euripides' Dramas," CQ 39 (1989) 70-82.
Lloyd, M. The Agon in Euripides. Oxford, 1992.
McDonald, M. Euripides in Cinema: The Heart Made Visible. Philadelphia, 1983.
McDonald, M. "Euripides' dramatic tears: weeping as characterization of women and men," Kleos 7 (2002) 181-92.
Michelini, A.N. Euripides and the Tragic Tradition. Madison, 1987.
Mitchell-Boyask, R., ed. Approaches to Teaching the Dramas of Euripides. New York, 2002.
Murray, G. Euripides and his Age. Second edition. New York and London, 1946.
Powell, A., ed. Euripides, Women and Sexuality. London, 1989.
Rabinowitz, N.S. Anxiety Veiled: Euripides and the Traffic in Women. Ithaca, 1993.
Segal, E., ed. Twentieth Century Interpretations of Euripides. Englewood Cliffs, 1968.
Vellacott, P. Ironic Drama. Cambridge 1975.
Webster, T.B.L. The Tragedies of Euripides. London, 1967.
Whitman, C.H. Euripides and the Full Circle of Myth. Cambridge, Mass., 1974.
Wolff, C. "Euripides," in T.J. Luce, ed., Ancient Writers: Greece and Rome, vol. 1 (New York, 1982) 233-65.
Yunis, H. A New Creed: Fundamental Religious Beliefs in the Athenian Polis and Euripidean Drama. Göttingen, 1988.

Medea

Allan, W. Euripides, Medea. London, 2002.
Barlow, S.A. "Euripides' Medea: A Subversive Play?" in A. Griffiths, ed., Stage Directions. Essays in Ancient Drama in Honour of E. W. Handley (London, 1995) 36-45.
Barlow, S.A. "Stereotype and Reversal in Euripides' Medea," G&R 36 (1989) 158-72.
Bongie, E.B. "Heroic Elements in the Medea of Euripides," TAPA 107 (1977) 27-56.
Boedeker, D. "Euripides' Medea and the Vanity of Logoi," CP 86 (1991) 95-112.
Burnett, A. P. "Medea and the Tragedy of Revenge," CP 68 (1973) 1-24.
Buttrey, T.V. "Accident and Design in Euripides' Medea," AJP 79 (1958) 1-17.
Clauss, J.J., and S.I. Johnston, eds. Medea: Essays on Medea in Myth, Literature, Philosophy, and Art. Princeton, 1997.
Corti, L. The Myth of Medea and the Murder of Children. Westport, 1998.
Cunningham, M.P. "Medea epi mechanê," CP 49 (1954) 151-60.
duBois, P. Centaurs and Amazons: Women and the Pre-History of the Great Chain of Being. Ann Arbor, 1982.
Easterling, P.E. "The Infanticide in Euripides' Medea," YCS 25 (1977) 177-91.
Ferguson, J. Euripides: Medea and Electra. A Companion to the Penguin Translation. Bristol, 1987.
Foley, H. "Medea's Divided Self," ClassAnt 8 (1989) 61-85.
Gellie, G. "The Character of Medea," BICS 35 (1988) 15-22.
Golden, M. "Did the Ancients Care When their Children Died?" G&R 35 (1988) 152-63.
Gould, J. "Dramatic Character and 'Human Intelligibility' in Greek Tragedy," PCPS 24 (1978) 43-67.
Gredley, B. "The Place and Time of Victory: Euripides' Medea," BICS 34 (1987) 27-39.
Gredley, B., ed. Euripides, Medea. Warminster, [forthcoming].
Griffiths, E. Medea. London and New York, 2006.
Hall, E., F. Macintosh, and O. Taplin, eds. Medea in Performance 1500-2000. Oxford, 2000.
Hatzichronoglou, L. "Euripides' Medea: Woman or Fiend?" in M. DeForest, ed., Woman's Power, Man's Game (Wauconda, 1993) 178-93.
Irwin, T.H. "Euripides and Socrates," CP 78 (1983) 183-97.
Knox, B.M.W. "The Medea of Euripides," in Word and Action (Baltimore, 1979) 295-322. [= YCS 25 (1977) 193-225]
Kovacs, D. "Zeus in Euripides' Medea," AJP 114 (1993) 45-70.
Luschnig, C.A.E."Interiors: Imaginary Spaces in Alcestis and Medea," Mnemosyne 45 (1992) 19-44.
Mastronarde, D.J., ed. Euripides: Medea. Cambridge and New York, 2002.
McClure, L.K. "'The Worst Husband': Discourses of Praise and Blame in Euripides' Medea," CP 94 (1999) 373-94.
McDermott, E.A. Euripides' Medea. The Incarnation of Disorder. Pennsylvania, London, 1989.
Mills, S.P. "The Sorrows of Medea," CP 75 (1980) 289-96.
Newman, J.K. "Euripides' Medea: Structures of Estrangement," ICS 26 (2001) 53-76.
Newton, R.M."Ino in Euripides' Medea," AJP 106 (1985) 496-502.
Ohlander, S. Dramatic Suspense in Euripides' and Seneca's Medea. New York, Bern, Frankfurt am Main, Paris, 1989.
Pache, C.O. Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece. Urbana and Chicago, 2004.
Palmer, R.B. "An Apology for Jason: A Study of Euripides' Medea," CJ 53 (1957-1958) 49-55.
Pucci, P. The Violence of Pity in Euripides' Medea. Ithaca, 1980.
Reckford, K.J. "Medea's First Exit," TAPA 99 (1968) 329-59.
Rickert, G. "Akrasia and Euripides" Medea," HSCP 91 (1987) 91-117.
Rudnytsky, P.L. "Medea's Revenge: Psychoanalysis, Feminism, and Tragedy," Denver Quarterly 18.4 (1984) 35-42.
Schlesinger, E. "Zu Euripides' Medea," Hermes 94 (1966) 26-53. (Translated and abridged in Segal, Euripides 70-89.)
Segal, C. "Euripides' Medea: Vengeance, Reversal, and Closure," Pallas 45 (1996) 15-44.
Shaw, M. "The Female Intruder: Women in Fifth-Century Drama," CP 70 (1975) 255-66.
Sourvinou-Inwood, C. "Myths and Images: Theseus and Medea as a Case Study," in L. Edmunds, ed., Approaches to Greek Myth (Baltimore, 1990) 393-445.
Sfyroeras, P. "The Ironies of Salvation: The Aigeus Scene in Euripides' Medea," CJ 90 (1995) 125-142.
Visser, M. "Medea: Daughter, Sister, Wife and Mother. Natal Family versus Conjugal Family in Greek and Roman Myths about Women," in M. Cropp, E. Fantham and S.E. Scully eds., Greek Tragedy and its Legacy (Calgary, 1986) 149-65.
Walsh, G.B. "Public and Private in Three Plays of Euripides," CP 74 (1979) 294-309.
Williamson, M. "A Woman's Place in Euripides' Medea," in Powell (above) 16-31.
Worthington, I. "The Ending of Euripides' Medea," Hermes 118 (1990) 502-05.

Heracles

Arrowsmith, W. "Introduction to Heracles," in D. Grene and R. Lattimore eds., The Complete Greek Tragedies: Euripides, Vol. 2 (Chicago, 1956) 44-59.
Barlow, S. "Structure and Dramatic Realism in Euripides' Heracles," G&R 29 (1982) 115-25.
Brown, A.L. "Wretched Tales of the Poets: Euripides, Heracles 1340-6," PCPS 204 (1978) 22-30.
Chalk, H. "aretê and Bia in Euripides' Herakles," JHS 82 (1962) 7-18.
Conacher, D.J. "Theme, Plot, and Technique in the Heracles of Euripides," Phoenix 9 (1955) 139-52.
Fitzgerald, G.J. "The Euripidean Heracles: An Intellectual and a Coward?" Mnemosyne 4.44 (1991) 85-95.
Furely, D. "Euripides on the Sanity of Herakles," in J.H. Betts, J.T. Hooker, and J.R. Green eds., Studies in Honour of T.B.L. Webster, vol. 1 (Bristol, 1986) 102-13.
Garrison, E.P. Groaning Tears: Ethical and Dramatic Aspects of Suicide in Greek Tragedy. Kinderhook [NY], 1995.
Garrison, E.P. "Attitudes Toward Suicide in Ancient Greece," TAPA 121 (1991) 1-34.
George, D.P. "Euripides' Heracles 140-325: Staging and the Stage Iconography of Heracles' Bow," GRBS 35 (1994) 145-58.
Gregory, J. "Euripides' Heracles," YCS 25 (1977) 259-75.
Halleran, M., tr. Euripides, Heracles. Cambridge [Mass.], 1988.
Halleran, M. "Rhetoric, Irony, and the Ending of Euripides' Herakles," ClassAnt 5 (1986) 171-81.
Hamilton, R. "Slings and Arrows: The Debate with Lycus in the Heracles," TAPA 115 (1985) 19-25.
Hartigan, K. "Euripidean Madness: Herakles and Orestes," G&R 34 (1987)126-35.
Kamerbeek, J.C. "The Unity and Meaning of Euripides' Heracles," Mnemosyne 19 (1966) 1-16.
Lawrence, S.E. "The God that is truly God and the Universe of Euripides," Mnemosyne 51 (1998) 129-46.
Lee, K.H. "The Iris-Lyssa Scene in Euripides' Heracles," Antichthon 16 (1982) 44-53.
Meagher, R.E. Herakles Gone Mad: Rethinking Heroism in an Age of Endless War. Northampton, 2006.
Mikalson, J.D. "Zeus the Father and Heracles the Son in Tragedy," TAPA 116 (1986) 89-98.
Pache, C.O. Baby and Child Heroes in Ancient Greece. Urbana and Chicago, 2004.
Padilla, M. "The Gorgonic Archer: Danger of Sight in Euripides' Heracles," CW 86 (1992) 1-20.
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Papadopoulou, T. Heracles and Euripidean Tragedy. Cambridge and New York, 2005.
Parry, H. "The Second Stasimon of Euripides' Heracles (637-700)," AJP 86 (1965) 363-74.
Pucci, P. The Violence of Pity in Euripides' Medea (Ithaca, 1980), pp. 175-87.
Silk, M.S. "Heracles and Greek Tragedy," G&R 32 (1985) 1-22.
Sleigh, T., tr. Euripides: Herakles. (With an introduction and notes by C. Wolff.) Oxford and New York, 2001.
Tarkow, T.A. "The Glorification of Athens in Euripides' Heracles," Helios 5 (1977) 27-33.
Willink, C.W. "Sleep after Labour in Euripides' Heracles," CQ 38 (1988) 86-97.

Electra

Arnott, W.G. "Double the Vision: A Reading of Euripides' Electra," G&R 28 (1981) 179-91.
Arnott, W.G. "Euripides and the Unexpected," G&R 20 (1973) 49-64.
Arnott, W.G. "Red Herrings and Other Baits, A Study in Euripidean Techniques," MPhL 3 (1978) 1-24.
Bain, D. "[Euripides], Electra 518-44," BICS 24 (1977) 104-16.
Baldry, chapter 8
Barlow, S.A. The Imagery of Euripides. London, 1971.
Bond, G.W. "Euripides' Parody of Aeschylus," Hermathena 118 (1974) 1-14.
Cropp, M. "Heracles, Electra and the Odyssey," in M.J. Cropp, E. Fantham, S.E. Scully, eds., Greek Tragedy and its Legacy (Calgary, 1986) 187-99.
Cropp., M., ed. Euripides: Electra. Warminster, 1988.
Davidson, J. "Euripides, Homer and Sophocles," ICS 24-25 (1999-2000) 117-28.
Davies, M. "Euripides' Electra," CQ 48 (1998) 389-403.
Denniston, J.D., ed. Euripides: Electra. Oxford 1939.
England, T.R. "The Electra of Euripides," CR 40 (1926) 97-104.
Ferguson, J. Euripides: Medea and Electra. A Companion to the Penguin Translation. Bristol, 1987.
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Halporn, J.W. "The Skeptical Electra," HSCP 87 (1983) 101-18.
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Harder, M.A. "'Right' and 'wrong' in the Electras," Hermathena 159 (1995) 15-31.
Jong, I.J.F. de "Three Off-Stage Characters in Euripides," Mnemosyne 43 (1990) 1-21.
Keene, C.H., ed. The Electra of Euripides. London, 1893.
Kenna, V.E.G. "The Return of Orestes," JHS 81 (1961) 99-104.
King, K.C. "The Force of Tradition: The Achilles Ode in Euripides' Electra," TAPA 110 (1980) 195-212.
Knox, B.M.W. "Euripidean Comedy," in The Rarer Action: Essays in Honor of Francis Fergusson (Rutgers 1971) 68-96. [= Word and Action (Baltimore, 1979) 250-74]
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Kovacs, D. "Castor in Euripides' Electra (El. 307-13 and 1292-1307)," CQ 35 (1985) 306-14.
Kovacs, D. "Euripides, Electra 518-44: Further Doubts about Genuineness," BICS 36 (1989) 67-78.
Kovacs, D. "Where is Aegisthus' Head?" CP 82 (1987) 139-41.
Kraus, C.S. "Thessalian Orestes," MD 29 (1992) 157-163.
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McLeish, K. and M. McDonald, tr. and comm. Elektra, with commentary and notes. London, 2004.
Miller, D.A. "A Note on Aegisthus as 'Hero'," Arethusa 10 (1977) 259-68.
Morwood, J.H.W. "The Pattern of the Euripidean Electra," AJP 102 (1981) 362-70.
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Porter, J.R. "Tiptoeing through the Corpses: Euripides' Electra, Apollonius, and the Bouphonia," GRBS 31 (1990) 255-80.
Pucci, P. "Euripides Heautontimoroumenos," TAPA 98 (1967) 365-71.
Raeburn, D. "The significance of stage properties in Euripides' Electra," G&R 47 (2000)149-68.
Rosivach, V.J. "The Golden-Lamb Ode in Euripides' Electra," CP 73 (1978) 189-99.
Segal, C. P. "Tragedy, Corporeality, and the Texture of Language: Matricide in the Three Electra Plays," CW 79 (1985) 7-23.
Sheppard, J.T. "The Electra of Euripides," CR 32 (1918) 137-41.
Sider, D. "Two Stage Directions for Euripides," AJP 98 (1977) 16-19.
Tarkow, T.A. "The Scar of Orestes: Observations on a Euripidean Innovation," RhM 124 (1981) 143-53.
Thury, E.M. "Euripides' Electra: An Analysis through Character Development" RhM 128 (1985) 5-22.
Walsh, G.B. "The First Stasimon of Euripides' Electra," YCS 25 (1977) 277-89.
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Will, F. "Remarks on Counterpoint Characterization in Euripides," CJ 55 (1960) 338-44.
Zeitlin, F. "The Argive Festival of Hera and Euripides' Electra," TAPA 101 (1970) 645-69.

Ion

Burnett, A.P. "Human Resistance and Divine Persuasion in Euripides' Ion," CP 57 (1962) 89-103.
Burnett, A.P. transl. and comm. Ion, by Euripides. Englewood Cliffs, 1970.
Conacher, D.J. "Some Profane Variations on a Tragic Theme," Phoenix 23 (1969) 26-38.
Dunn, F.M. "The Battle of the Sexes in Euripides' Ion," Ramus 19 (1990) 130-42.
Farrington, A. "GNOTHI SAUTON. Social Self-Knowledge in Euripides' Ion," RhM 120-36.
Hamilton, R. "Prologue, Prophecy and Plot in Four Plays of Euripides," AJP 99 (1978) 277-302.
Knox, B.M.W. "Euripidean Comedy," in Word and Action (Baltimore, 1979) 250-74.
Kuntz, M. Narrative Setting and Dramatic Poetry. Leiden, 1993.
La Rue, J. "Creusa's Monody: Ion 859-922," TAPA 94 (1963) 126-36.
Lee, F., ed. Euripides, Ion. Warminster, [forthcoming].
Rosivach, V.J. "Earthborns and Olympians: The Parodos of the Ion," CQ 27 (1977) 284-94.
Walsh, G.B. "The Rhetoric of Birthright and Race in Euripides' Ion," Hermes 106 (1978) 301-15.
Wassermann, F.M. "Divine Violence and Myth in Euripides' Ion," TAPA 71 (1940) 587-604.
Willetts, R.F. "Action and Characterization in the Ion of Euripides," JHS 93 (1973) 201-09.
Winnington-Ingram "The Delphic Temple in Greek Tragedy," in J.M. Bremer et al. eds., Miscellanea Tragica in honorem J.C. Kamerbeek (Amsterdam, 1976) 483-500.
Wolff, C. "The Design and Myth in Euripides' Ion," HSCP 69 (1965) 169-94.
Zeitlin, F.I. "The Artful Eye: Vision, Ecphrasis and Spectacle in Euripidean Theatre," in S. Goldhill and R. Osborne, eds., Art and Text in Ancient Greek Culture (Cambridge, 1994) 138-96.
Zeitlin, F.I. "Mysteries of Identity and Designs of the Self in Euripides' Ion," PCPS 35 (1989) 144-97.

Helen

Arnott, W.G. "Euripides' Newfangled Helen," Antichthon 24 (1990) 1-18.
Austin, N. Helen of Troy and her Shameless Phantom. Ithaca, 1994.
Burnett [Pippin], A.N. "Euripides' Helen: A Comedy of Ideas," CP 55 (1960) 151-63.
Davidson, J. "Euripides, Homer and Sophocles," ICS 24-25 (1999-2000) 117-28.
Downing, E. "Apatê, Agôn, and Literary Self-reflexivity in Euripides' Helen," in M. Griffith and D.J. Mastronarde, eds., Cabinet of the Muses (Atlanta, 1989) 1-16.
Galeotti Papi, D. "Victors and Sufferers in Euripides' Helen," AJP 108 (1987) 27-40.
Holmberg, I.E. "Euripides' Helen: Most Noble and Most Chaste," AJP 116 (1995) 19-42.
Jacobson, H. "Vergil's Dido and Euripides' Helen," AJP 108 (1987) 167-68.
Juffras, D.M. "Helen and Other Victims in Euripides' Helen," Hermes 121 (1993) 45-57.
Lee, K.H. "Helen's Famous Husband and Euripides Helen 1399," CP 81 (1986) 309-13.
Ley, G. "Scenic Notes on Euripides' Helen," Eranos 89 (1991) 25-34.
Meagher, R.E. Helen: Myth, Legend, and the Culture of Mysogyny. New York, 1995.
Meltzer, G.S. "'Where is the glory of Troy ?' Kleos in Euripides' Helen," CIAnt 13 (1994) 234-55.
Podlecki, A.J. "The Basic Seriousness of Euripides' Helen," TAPA 101 (1970) 401-18.
Pucci, P. "The Helen and Euripides' 'Comic' Art," ColbyQ 33 (1997) 42-75.
Robinson, D.B. "Helen and Persephone, Sparta and Demeter. The 'Demeter Ode' in Euripides' Helen," Arktouros (G.W. Bowersock, W. Burkert, M.C.J. Putnam eds., Berlin, New York, 1979) 162-72.
Segal, C.P. "The Two Worlds of Euripides' Helen," TAPA 102 (1971) 553-614. [also in Segal, Interpreting Greek Tragedy]
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Willink, C.W. "The Parodos of Euripides' Helen (164-90)," CQ 40 (1990) 77-99.
Willink, C.W. "The Reunion Duo in Euripides' Helen," CQ 39 (1989) 45-69.
Wolff, C. "On Euripides' Helen," HSCP 77 (1973) 61-84.
Wright, M. Euripides' Escape-Tragedies: A Study of Helen, Andromeda, and Iphigenia among the Taurians. Oxford and New York, 2005.
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Aristotle, Poetics

Bremer, J.M. Hamartia. Amsterdam, 1969.
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OLD COMEDY

Bowie, E. "Wine in Old Comedy," in O. Murray and M. Tecusan, eds., In uino ueritas (London, 1995) 113-25.
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ARISTOPHANES

General

Bowie, A.M. "Thinking with drinking: wine and the symposium in Aristophanes," JHS 117 (1997) 1-21.
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The Politics of Aristophanes

Carey, C. "Comic Ridicule and Democracy," in R. Osborne and S. Hornblower, eds., Ritual, Finance, Politics, Athenian Democratic Accounts Presented to David Lewis (Oxford 1994) 69-84.
Connor, W.R. "City Dionysia and Athenian Democracy," C&M 40 (1989) 7-32.
Connor, W.R. The New Politicians of Fifth-Century Athens. Princeton, 1971.
Edmunds, L. Cleon, Knights, and Aristophanes' Politics. Lanham, 1987.
Edwards, A.T. "Historicizing the Popular Grotesque: Bakhtin's Rabelais and Attic Old Comedy," in R. Scodel, ed., Theater and Society in the Classical World (Ann Arbor, 1993) 89-118. [An updated version appears in R.B. Branham, ed., Bakhtin and the Classics (Evanston, 2002) 27-58. For background, see the Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy on "The Bakhtin Circle."]
Forrest, W.G. "The Stage and Politics," in Greek Tragedy and its Legacy (M. Cropp, E. Fantham, S.E. Scully, eds. Calgary, 1986) 229-39.
Gomme, A.W. "Aristophanes and Politics," CR 52 (1938) 97-109. (= More Essays in Greek History and Literature [Oxford, 1962] 70-91.)
Halliwell, S. "Comic Satire and Freedom of Speech in Classical Athens," JHS 111 (1991) 48-70.
Heath, M. "Aristophanes and the Discourse of Politics," The City as Comedy (1997) 230-49.
Henderson, J. "Comic Hero Versus Political Élite," in A.H. Sommerstein, S. Halliwell, J. Henderson, B. Zimmerman, eds., Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis (Bari, 1993) 307-19.
Heath, M. Political Comedy in Aristophanes. Göttingen, 1987.
Katz, B. "The Birds of Aristophanes and Politics," Athenaeum 54 (1976) 352-82.
McGlew, J.F. "'Everybody Wants to Make a Speech' — Cleon and Aristophanes on Fantasy and Leadership," Arethusa 29 (1996) 339-61. (Also in id., Citizens on Stage.)
Nichols, P. Aristophanes' Novel Forms: The Political Role of Drama. London, 1998.
Ober, J., and B. Strauss. "Drama, Political Rhetoric, and the Discourse of Athenian Democracy," in J.J. Winkler and F.I. Zeitlin, eds., Nothing to Do with Dionysos? (Princeton, 1990) 237-70.
Roisman, J. The Rhetoric of Conspiracy in Ancient Athens. Berkeley, 2006.
Rosen, R. Old Comedy and the Iambographic Tradition. Atlanta, 1988.
Rosenbloom, D. "From Ponêros to Pharmakos: Theater, Social Drama, and Revolution in Athens, 428-404 BCE," ClAnt 21 (2002) 283-346.
Sidwell, K. Aristophanes the Democrat: The Politics of Satirical Comedy during the Peloponnesian War. Cambridge, 2009.
Sommerstein, A.H. "Platon, Eupolis, and the 'demagogue-comedy,'" Rivals of Aristophanes (2000) 439-52.
Ste.-Croix, G.E.M. de "The Political Outlook of Aristophanes," in The Origins of the Peloponnesian War (Ithaca, 1972) 355-76.
Sommerstein, A.H. "How to Avoid Being a Komodoumenos," CQ 46 (1996) 327-56.
Storey, I. "Poets, Politicians and Perverts: Personal Humour in Aristophanes," ClIre 5 (1998) 85-134.
Storey, I.C. "Comedy, Euripides, and the War(s)," in J. Davidson, F. Muecke, and P. Wilson, eds., Greek Drama III. Essays in Honour of Kevin Lee (London, 2006) 171-86.
Vickers, M.J. Pericles on Stage: Political Comedy in Aristophanes' Early Plays. Austin, 1997.

Acharnians

Atkinson, J.E. "Curbing the Comedians: Cleon versus Aristophanes and Syracosius' Decree," CQ 42 (1992) 56.
Aveline, J. "Aristophanes' Acharnians 95-97 and 100: Persians in the Athenian Assembly," Hermes 128 (2000) 500-01.
Bailey, C. "Who Played Dicaeopolis?" in id. et al., eds., Greek Poetry and Life (Oxford, 1936) 231-40.
Borthwick, E.K. "Aristophanes and the Trial of Thucydides Son of Melesias (Acharnians 717)," Phoenix 54 (2000) 203.
Bowie, E.L. "Who is Dicaeopolis?" JHS 108 (1988) 183-85.
Carawan, E.M. "The Five Talents Cleon Coughed Up (Schol. Ar. Ach. 6)," CQ 40 (1990) 137-47.
Carey, C. "The Purpose of Aristophanes' Acharnians," RhM 136 (1993) 245-63.
Compton-Engle, G. "From Country to City: The Persona of Dicaeopolis in Aristophanes' Acharnians," CJ 94 (1999) 359-73.
Dover, K. and S. Tremewan. Aristophanes: Clouds, Acharnians, Lysistrata. A Companion to the Penguin Translation of Alan H. Sommerstein. Bristol, 1989.
Edmunds, L. "Aristophanes' Acharnians," YCS 26 (1980) 1-41.
English, M.C. "Reconstructing Aristophanic Performance: Stage Properties in Acharnians," CW 100 (2007) 199-227.
Fisher, N.R.E. "Multiple Personalities and Dionysiac Festivals: Dicaeopolis in Aristophanes' Acharnians," G&R 40 (1993) 31-47.
Foley, H.P. "Tragedy and Politics in Aristophanes' Acharnians," JHS 108 (1988) 33-47. [Also available in a shorter, more user-friendly form in R. Scodel, ed., Theater and Society in the Classical World [Ann Arbor, 1993] 119-38.]
Fornara, C.W. "Evidence for the Date of Herodotus' Publication," JHS 91 (1971) 25-34.
Forrest, W.G. "Aristophanes' Acharnians," Phoenix 17 (1963) 1-12.
Griffith, J.G. "Amphitheos and Anthropos in Aristophanes," Hermes 102 (1974) 367-69.
Halliwell, S. "Aristophanes' Apprenticeship," CQ 30 (1980) 33-45.
Harriott, R. "The Function of the Euripides Scene in Aristophanes' Acharnians," G&R 29 (1982) 35-41.
Ketterer, R.C. "Lamachus and Xerxes in the Exodos of Acharnians," GRBS 32 (1991) 51-60.
Ketterer, Robert C. "Stripping in the Parabasis of Acharnians," GRBS 21 (1980) 217-21.
Kornarou, E. "Aristophanes and Tragic Lamentation: The Case of Acharnians 1069-142 and 1174-234," Mnemosyne 60 (2007) 550-64.
MacDowell, D.M. "The Nature of Aristophanes' Akharnians," G&R 30 (1983) 143-62.
Moorton, R.F. Jr. "Dionysus or Polemos? The Double Message of Aristophanes' Acharnians," in F.B. Titchener and R.F. Moorton, eds., The Eye Expanded: Life and the Arts in Greco-Roman Antiquity (Berkeley, 1999) 24-51.
Murray, R.J. "Aristophanic Protest," Hermes 115 (1987) 146-54.
Newiger, H. J. "War and Peace in the Comedy of Aristophanes," YCS 26 (1980) 219-37.
Olson, S. D., tr. "Aristophanes and Athenian Old Comedy: Acharnians," in S. O'Bryhim, ed., Greek and Roman Comedy: Translations and Interpretations of Four Representative Plays (Austin, 2001).
Olson, S.D. "Dicaeopolis and Aristophanes in Acharnians," LCM 15 (1990) 31-32.
Olson, S.D. "Dicaeopolis' Motivations in Aristophanes' Acharnians," JHS 111 (1991) 200-03.
Parker, L.P.E. "Eupolis or Dicaeopolis?" JHS 111 (1991) 203-08.
Pearcy, L.T. "Aristophanes in Philadelphia: The Acharnians of 1886," CW 96 (2003) 299-313.
Porter, J.R. "Aristophanes, Acharnians 1118-21," G&R 51 (2004) 21-33.
Scaife, R. "From Kottabos to War in Aristophanes' Acharnians," GRBS 33 (1992) 25-36.
Sidwell, K. "Aristophanes' Acharnians and Eupolis," C&M 45 (1994) 71-115.
Slater, N.W. "Aristophanes' Apprenticeship Again," GRBS 30 (1989) 67-82.
Slater, N.W. "Space, Character, and apatê: Transformation and Transvaluation in the Acharnians," in A.H. Sommerstein, S. Halliwell, J. Henderson, B. Zimmerman, eds., Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis (Bari, 1993) 397-415.
Sommerstein, A.H., ed. Aristophanes, Acharnians. Warminster, 1980.
Steen, G.A.H., van. "Aspects of 'Public Performance' in Aristophanes' Acharnians," AC 63 (1994) 211-24.
Sutton, D.F. "Dicaeopolis as Aristophanes, Aristophanes as Dicaeopolis," LCM 13 (1988) 105-08.
Taplin, O. "Tragedy and Trugedy," CQ 33 (1983) 331-33.
Van Steen, G.A.H. "Aspects of 'Public Performance' in Aristophanes' Acharnians," AC 63 (1994) 211-24.
Whitehorne, J. "Derketes' Poor Little Bullocks (Aristophanes, Ach. 1018-1036)," Mnemosyne 55.2 (2002) 203-08.
Whitehorne, J. "O city of Kranaos! Athenian identity in Aristop hanes' Acharnians," G&R 52 (2005) 34-44.

Knights

Anderson, C.A. "The Gossiping Triremes in Aristophanes' Knights, 1300-1315," CJ 99 (2003) 1-9.
Bennett, L.J., and W.B. Tyrrell. "Making Sense of Aristophanes' Knights," Arethusa 23 (1990) 235-54.
Biles, Z.P. "Aristophanes' Victory Dance: Old Poets in the Parabasis of Knights," ZPE 136 (2001) 195-200.
Lauriola, R. "Athena and the Paphlagonian in Aristophanes' Knights. Re-considering Equites 1090-5, 1172-81," Mnemosyne 59 (2006) 75-94.
Marr J. "History as lunch: Aristophanes, Knights 810-19," CQ 46 (1996) 561564.
McGlew, J. "'Everybody Wants to Make a Speech': Cleon and Aristophanes on Politics and Fantasy," Arethusa 29 (1996) 339-62.
Scholtz, A. "Friends, lovers, flatterers; Demophilic courtship in Aristophanes' Knights," TAPA 134 (2004) 263-93.
Sidwell, K. "Authorial Collaboration? Aristophanes' Knights and Eupolis," GRBS 34 (1993) 365.
Welsh, D. "The Ending of Aristophanes Knights," Hermes 118 (1990) 421-29.
Worthington I. "Aristophanes' Knights and the Abortive Peace Proposals of 425 B.C.," AC 56 (1987) 56.

Peace

Compton-Engle, G. "Aristophanes Peace 1265-1304. Food, Poetry, and the Comic Genre," CP 94 (1999) 324-29.
Egan, R.B. "Making Water Music: A Double-Entendre in Aristophanes Pax 1265-9," CQ 55 (2005) 607-09.
Faraone, C.A. "Twisting and Turning in the Prayer of the Samotracian Initiates (Aristophanes Peace 276-279)," MH 62 (2005) 30-50.
Hall, E., and A. Wrigley, eds. Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds, and Frogs. London, 2007.
McGlew, James F. "Identity and Ideology: The Farmer Chorus of Aristophanes' Peace," SyllClass 12 (2001) 74-97.
Olson, S.D., ed. Aristophanes: Peace. Oxford and New York, 1998.
Reckford, K.J. "'Let Them Eat Cakes' — Three Food Notes to Aristophanes' Peace," Arktouros (1979) 191-98.
Rosen, R.M. "The Ionian at Aristophanes Peace 46," GRBS 25 (1984) 389-96.

Birds

Ceccarelli, P. "Life among the savages and escape from the city in Old Comedy," Rivals of Aristophanes (2000) 453-72.
Craik, E.M. "The hoopoe's nest: Aristophanes, Birds 265-6," CQ 48 (1998) 292-94.
Craik, E. "The Staging of Sophokles' Philoktetes and Aristophanes' Birds," Owls to Athens (1990) 81-84.
Dobrov, G. "Aristophanes' Birds and the Metaphor of Deferral," Arethusa 23 (1990) 209-33.
Dunbar, N., ed. Aristophanes: Birds. Oxford and New York, 1995.
Dunbar, N. "The Ornithology of Aristophanes' Bird-Wall: Birds 1136-1157," Owls to Athens (1990) 61-68.
Dunbar, N. "Sophia in Aristophanes' Birds," SCI 15 (1996) 61-71.
Hall, E., and A. Wrigley, eds. Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds, and Frogs. London, 2007.
Hubbard, . K. "Utopianism and the Sophistic City in Aristophanes," The City as Comedy (1997) 23-50.
Katz, B. "The Birds of Aristophanes and Politics," Athenaeum 54 (1976) 352-82.
Konstan, D. "The Greek Polis and its Negations: Versions of Utopia in Aristophanes' Birds," in G.W. Dobrov, ed., The City as Comedy. Society and Representation in Athenian Drama (Chapel Hill, 1997) 3-22.
Romer, F.E. "Atheism, Impiety and the Limos Melios in Aristophanes' Birds," AJP 115 (1994) 351.
Rosenbloom, D. "Empire and its Discontents: Trojan Women, Birds, and the Symbolic Economy of Athenian Imperialism," in J. Davidson, F. Muecke, and P. Wilson, eds., Greek Drama III. Essays in Honour of Kevin Lee (London, 2006) 245-71.
Scharffenberger, E.W. "Peisetaerus' 'satyric' treatment of Iris: Aristophanes Birds 1253-56," JHS 115 (1995) 172.
Slater, N.W. "Performing the City in Birds," in G.W. Dobrov, ed., The City as Comedy. Society and Representation in Athenian Drama (Chapel Hill, 1997) 75-94.
Vickers, M. "Alcibiades at Sparta: Aristophanes Birds," CQ 45 (1995) 339-54.

Lysistrata

Bowie, A.M. "Thinking with drinking: wine and the symposium in Aristophanes," JHS 117 (1997) 1-21.
Butrica, J.L. "Melanippe Ecclesiazusa (Aristophanes, Ecc. 441-54)," CQ 51 (2001) 610-13.
Chapman, G.A.H. "Aristophanes and History," AClass 21 (1978) 59-70.
Clay, J.S. "The Plot of the Lysistrata and the Hostages of line 244," ElectronAnt 1.7 (1993-1994.
Dillon, M. "The Lysistrata as a Post-Dekeleian Peace Play," TAPA 117 (1987) 97-104.
Dover, K. and S. Tremewan. Aristophanes: Clouds, Acharnians, Lysistrata. A Companion to the Penguin Translation of Alan H. Sommerstein. Bristol, 1989.
Faraone, C.A. "Salvation and Female Heroics in the Parodos of Aristophanes' Lysistrata," JHS 117 (1997) 38-59.
Fletcher, J. "Sacrificial Bodies and the Body of the Text in Aristophanes' Lysistrata," Ramus 28.2 (1999) 108-25.
Foley, H.P. "The 'Female Intruder' Reconsidered: Women in Aristophanes' Lysistrata and Ecclesiazusae," CP 77 (1982) 1-21.
Fowler, R.L. "How the Lysistrata Works," EMC 15 (1996) 245-49.
Harriott, R.M. "Lysistrata: Action and Theme," in J. Redmond, ed., Themes in Drama VII: Drama, Sex and Politics (Cambridge, 1985) 11-22.
Hawkins, T. "Seducing a Misanthrope: Timon the Philogynist in Aristophanes' Lysistrata," GRBS 42 (2001) 143-62.
Henderson, J.J. "Lysistrate: The Play and Its Themes," YCS 26 (1980) 153-218.
Henderson, J., ed. Aristophanes: Lysistrata. Oxford, 1987.
Henderson, J.J. "Older Women in Attic Old Comedy," TAPA 117 (1987) 105-29.
Hulton, A.O. "The Women on the Acropolis," G&R 19 (1972) 32-39.
Konstan, D. "Aristophanes' Lysistrata: Women and the Body Politic," in A.H. Sommerstein, S. Halliwell, J. Henderson, B. Zimmerman, eds., Tragedy, Comedy and the Polis (Bari, 1993) 431-44.
Levine, D. "Lysistrata and Bacchae. Structure, Genre, and 'Women on Top'," Helios 14 (1987) 29-38.
Lewis, D.M. "Who was Lysistrata?" BSA 50 (1955) 1-12.
Martin, R.P. "Fire on the Mountain: Lysistrata and the Lemnian Women," ClassAnt 6 (1987) 77-105.
Schaps, D. "The Women of Greece in Wartime," CP 77 (1982) 193-213.
Shaw, M. "The Female Intruder: Women in Fifth-Century Drama," CP 70 (1975) 255-66.
Sommerstein, A.H., ed. Aristophanes, Lysistrata. Warminster, 1990.
Sommerstein, A.H. "Aristophanes and the Events of 411," JHS 97 (1977) 112-26.
Vaio, J. "The Manipulation of Theme and Action in Aristophanes' Lysistrata," GRBS 14 (1973) 369-80.
Stroup, S.C. "Designing Women: Aristophanes' Lysistrata and the 'Hetairization' of the Greek Wife," Arethusa 37 (2004) 37-73.
Vaio, J. "The Manipulation of Theme and Action in Aristophanes' Lysistrata," GRBS 14 (1973) 369-80.
Westlake, H.D. "The Lysistrata and the War," Phoenix 34 (1980) 38-54.
Wilson, N. "Two Observations on Aristophanes' Lysistrata," GRBS 23 (1982) 157-63.
Wysocki, L. "Aristophanes, Thucydides, b. VIII, and the Political Events of 413-411 B.C." Eos 76 (1988) 237-48.

Wealth

Baldry, H.C. "The Idler's Paradise in Attic Comedy," G&R 22 (1953) 49-60.
Barkhuizen, J.H. "The Plutus of Aristophanes," AClass 24 (1981) 17-22.
Davies, J.K. (1996) "Wealth, attitudes to," in The Oxford Classical Dictionary (Third edition; Oxford and New York, 1996) 1620.
Dillon, M. "Topicality in Aristophanes' Ploutos," ClAnt 6 (1987) 155-83.
Flashar, H. "The Originality of Aristophanes' Last Plays," in E. Segal, ed., Oxford Readings in Aristophanes (Oxford, 1996) 314-28. [Translated from the German original published in Poetica 1 (1967) 154-75.]
Konstan, D., and M. Dillon. "The Ideology of Aristophanes' Wealth," AJP 104 (1981) 371-94. [Appears in a modified form in D. Konstan, Greek Comedy and Ideology (Oxford, 1995) 75-90.]
Lévy, E. "Richesse et pauvreté dans le Ploutos," Ktema 22 (1997) 201-12.
Major, W.E. "Farting for Dollars: A Note on Agyrrhios in Aristophanes Wealth 176," AJP 123 (2002) 549-57.
McGlew, J. "After Irony: Aristophanes' Wealth and its Modern Interpreters," AJP 118 (1997) 35-53.
Olson, S.D. "Cario and the New World of Aristophanes' Plutus," TAPA 119 (1989) 193-200.
Olson, S.D. "Economics and the Ideology of Aristophanes' Wealth," HSCP 93 (1990) 223-42.
Sfyoeras, P. "What Wealth Has to Do with Dionysus: From Economy to Poetics in Aristophanes' Plutus," GRBS 36 (1995) 231-62
Sommerstein, A.H. "Aristophanes and the Demon Poverty," CQ 34 (1984) 314-33. [Also available in E. Segal, ed., Oxford Readings in Aristophanes (Oxford, 1996) 252-81.]
Sutton, D.F. Self and Society in Aristophanes. Washington, D.C., 1980.

Cockaigne (The Idler's Paradise)

Baldry, H.C. "The Idler's Paradise in Attic Comedy," G&R 22 (1953) 49-60.
Bowie, A.M. Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual, and Comedy. Cambridge, 1994.
Dunbar, N. "Sophia in Aristophanes' Birds," SCI 15 (1996) 61-71.
Hubbard, T.K. "Utopianism and the Sophistic City in Aristophanes," in G.W. Dobrov, ed., The City as Comedy. Society and Representation in Athenian Drama (Chapel Hill, 1997) 23-50.
Hubbard, T.K. The Mask of Comedy: Aristophanes and the Intertextual Parabasis. Ithaca, 1991. [pp. 158-82]
Katz, B. "The Birds of Aristophanes and Politics," Athenaeum 54 (1976) 352-82.
Konstan, D. "A City in the Air: Aristophanes' Birds," Arethusa 23 (1990) 183-207. [Appears in a modified form in D. Konstan, Greek Comedy and Ideology (Oxford, 1995) 29-44.]
Konstan, D. "The Greek Polis and its Negations: Versions of Utopia in Aristophanes' Birds," in G.W. Dobrov, ed., The City as Comedy. Society and Representation in Athenian Drama (Chapel Hill, 1997) 3-22.
Nichols, P. Aristophanes' Novel Forms: The Political Role of Drama. London, 1998.
Pozzi, D.C. "The Pastoral Ideal in the Birds of Aristophanes," CJ 81 (1986) 119-29.
Ruffell, I. "The World Turned Upside Down: Utopia and utopianism in the fragments of Old Comedy," Rivals of Aristophanes (2000) 473-506.
Slater, N.W. "Performing the City in Birds," in G.W. Dobrov, ed., The City as Comedy. Society and Representation in Athenian Drama (Chapel Hill, 1997) 75-94.
Sutton, D.F. Self and Society in Aristophanes. Washington, D.C., 1980
Vickers, M. "Alcibiades at Sparta: Aristophanes Birds," CQ 45 (1995) 339-54.

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MIDDLE COMEDY

Arnott, W.G. "From Aristophanes to Menander," G&R 19 (1972) 65-80.
Austin, C. "From Cratinus to Menander," QUCC 63 (1999) 37-48.
Csapo, E. "From Aristophaes to Menander?" in M. Depew and D. Obbink, eds., Matrices of Genre: Authors, Canons, and Society (Cambridge [Mass.], 2000) 115-33.
Dobrov, G. Beyond Aristophanes: Transition and Diversity in Greek Comedy. Atlanta, 1995.
Dunkin, S. Post-Aristophanic Comedy: Studies in the social outlook of Middle and New Comedy at both Athens and Rome. Urbana, 1946.
Lever, K. "Middle Comedy," CJ 49 (1954) 167-81.
Nesselrath, H.-G. "Parody and Later Greek Comedy," HSCP 95 (1993) 181-95.
Nesselrath, H.-G. "The Polis of Athens in Middle Comedy," in G.W. Dobrov, ed., The City as Comedy: Society and Representation in Athenian Drama (Chapel Hill, 1997) 271-88.
Quinn, T.S. "Aristotle, Comedy and Menander," CB 77 (2001) 3-18.
Sidwell, K. "From Old to Middle to New? Aristotle's Poetics and the history of Athenian comedy," Rivals of Aristophanes (2000) 247-58.
Slater, N.W. "Transformations of Space in New Comedy," in J. Redmond, ed., Themes in Drama 9: The Theatrical Space (Cambridge, 1987) 1-10.
Slater, N.W. "The Fabrication of Comic Illusion," in G. Dobrov, ed. Beyond Aristophanes: Transition and Diversity in Greek Comedy (Atlanta, 1995) 29-45.
Sutton, D.F. "Aristophanes and the Transition to Middle Comedy," LCM 15.6 (1990) 81-95.
Webster, T.B.L. Monuments Illustrating Old and Middle Comedy. Third edition, revised and enlarged by J.R. Green. London, 1978.
Webster, T.B.L. Studies in Later Greek Comedy. Second edition. Manchester, 1970.

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NEW COMEDY (compare below: ROMAN DRAMA)

Arnott, W.G. Menander, Plautus and Terence. Oxford, 1975.
Brown, P.G.M. "Love and Marriage in Greek New Comedy," CQ 43 (1993) 189-205.
Brown, P.G.M. "Masks, Names and Characters in the New Comedy," Hermes 115 (1987) 181-202.
Dutsch, D.M. Feminine Discourse in Roman Comedy: On Echoes and Voices. Oxford and New York, 2008.
Fantham, E. "Sex, Status and Survival in Hellenistic Athens: A Study of Women in New Comedy," Phoenix 29 (1975) 44-74.
Handley, E.W. "Comedy," in The Cambridge History of Ancient Literature, I: Greek Literature 355-425.
Hunter, R.L. The New Comedy of Greece and Rome. Cambridge, 1985.
Nesselrath, H.-G. "Parody and Later Greek Comedy," HSCP 95 (1993) 181.
Packman, Z.M. "Call It Rape: A Motif in Roman Comedy and Its Suppresion in English-Speaking Publications," Helios 20 (1993): 42-55.
Patterson, C. "The Case against Neaiira and the Public Ideology of the Athenian Family," in A. Boegehold and A. Scafuro, eds., Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology (Baltimore, 1994) 199-216.
Prescott, H.W. "The Antecedants of Hellenistic Comedy," CP 12 (1917) 405-25; 13 (1918) 113-37; 14 (1919) 108-35.
Slater, N.W. "The Fabrication of Comic Illusion," in G. Dobrov, ed., Beyond Aristophanes: Transition and Diversity in Greek Comedy (Atlanta, 1995) 29-45.
Walcot, P. "Romantic Love and True Love. Greek Attitudes to Marriage," AncSoc 18 (1987) 5-33.
Webster, T.B.L. Studies in Later Greek Comedy. Manchester, 1953.
Wiles, D. The Masks of Menander. Sign and Meaning in Greek and Roman Performance. Cambridge, 1991.
Wiles, D. "Marriage and Prostitution in Classical New Comedy," in E. Segal, ed., Oxford Readings in Menander (Oxford, 2001) 42-52.

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MENANDER

General

Andrews, M. "Euripides and Menander," CQ 18 (1924) 1-10.
Arnott, W.G. "From Aristophanes to Menander," G&R 19 (1972) 70-71.
Arnott, W.G. "Menander and Earlier Drama," in Studies in Honour of T.B.L. Webster, vol. 1 (Bristol, 1986) 1-9.
Arnott, W.G. "Moral Values in Menander," Philologus 125 (1981) 215-27.
Arnott, W.G. "The Modernity of Menander," G&R 22 (1975) 140-55.
Arnott, W.G. "Time, Plot and Character in Menander," ARCA (Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar) 2 (1979) 343ff.
Arnott, W.G., ed. and transl. Menander. Vol. 1: London, 1979. Vol. 2: forthcoming.
Bassett, S.E. "The Late Antique Image of Menander," GRBS 48 (2008) 201-25.
Blundell, J. Menander and the Monologue. Göttingen, 1980.
Brown, P.G.M. "Menander's dramatic technique and the law of Athens," CQ 33 (1983) 412-20.
Edmonds, J.M., ed. The Characters of Theophrastus. London and New York, 1929.
Fitton, J.W. "Menander and Euripides: Theme and Treatment," Pegasus (1981) 25-31.
Frost, K.B. Exits and Entrances in Menander. Oxford, 1988.
Goldberg, S.M. The Making of Menander's Comedy. Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1980.
Handley, E.W. "The Conventions of the Comic Stage and their Exploitation by Menander," in E.G. Turner, ed., Ménandre (Geneva, 1970) 3-26.
Henry, M.M. "Ethos, Mythos, Praxis. Women in Menander's Comedy," in M. Skinner, ed., Rescuing Creusa (Lubbock, 1987) 141-50.
Henry, M.M. Menander's Courtesans and the Greek Comic Tradition. Frankfurt, Bern, New York, 1985.
Katsouris, A.G. Tragic Patterns in Menander. Athens, 1975.
Konstan, D. "Premarital Sex, Illegitimacy, and Male Anxiety in Menander and Athens," in A. Boegehold and A. Scafuro, eds., Athenian Identity and Civic Ideology (Baltimore, 1994) 217-35.
Konstan, D. Greek Comedy and Ideology. New York, 1995.
Lape, S. "The Poetics of the Komos-Chorus in Menander's Comedy," AJP 127 (2006) 89-109.
MacCary, W.T. "Menander's Characters: Their Names, Roles and Masks," TAPA 101 (1970) 277-90.
MacCary, W.T. "Menander's Slaves: Their Names, Roles, and Masks," TAPA 100 (1969) 277-94.
Munteanu, D. "Types of Anagnorisis: Aristotle and Menander. A Self-Defining Comedy," WS 115 (2002) 111-26.
Nunlist, R. "Speech within Speech in Menander," The Language of Greek Comedy (2002) 219-59.
Ussher, R.G., ed. The Characters of Theophrastus. London and New York, 1960.
Walton, J.M., and P.D. Arnott. Menander and the Making of Comedy. Westport [Conn.], 1996.
Webster, T.B.L. An Introduction to Menander. Manchester and New York, 1974.
Webster, T.B.L. Studies in Menander. Second edition. Manchester, 1960.
Zagagi, N. The Comedy of Menander: Convention, Variation, and Originality. Bloomington, 1995.
Zagagi, N. "Divine Interventions and Human Agents in Menander," in E. Handley and A. Hurst, eds., Relire Ménandre (Geneva, 1990) 63-91.

The Girl from Samos (Samia)

Arnott, W.G. "Stage Business in Menander's Samia," Skenika (2000) 113-24.
Bain, D.M., ed. and transl. Menander, Samia. Warminster, 1983.
Fountoulakis, A. "A Note on Menander, Samia 98-101a," Mnemosyne 61 (2008) 467-76.
Grant, J.M. "The Father-Son Relationship and the Ending of Menander's Samia," Phoenix 40 (1986) 172-84.
Groton, A.H. "Anger in Menander's Samia," AJP 108 (1987) 437-43.
Lloyd-Jones, H. "Menander's Samia in Light of the New Evidence," YCS 22 (1972) 119-44.
West, S. "Notes on the Samia," ZPE 88 (1991) 11-23.

The Arbitration (Epitrepontes)

Anderson, W.S. "Euripides' Auge and Menander's Epitrepontes," GRBS 23 (1982) 165-77.
Arnott, W.G. "The Time-Scale of Menander's Epitrepontes," ZPE 70 (1987) 19-31.

The Rape of the Locks (Perikeiromene)

Konstan, D. "Between Courtesan and Wife: Menander's Perikeiromene," Phoenix 41 (1987) 122-39.

Old Cantankerous (Dyscolus)

Arnott, W.G. "A Study in Relationships: Alexis' Lebes, Menander's Dyskolos, Plautus' Aulularia," QUCC 62 (1990) 27-38.
Brown, P.G.M. "The Construction of Menander's Dyskolos, acts I-IV," ZPE 94 (1992) 8-20.
Brown, P.G.M. "Athenian Attitudes to Rape and Seduction: The Evidence of Menander, Dyskolos 289-293," CQ 41 (1991) 289-93.
Ireland, S., ed. Menander, The Bad-Tempered Man (Dyskolos). Warminster, 1995.
Lloyd, R.B. "Two Prologues: Menander and Plautus," AJP 84 (1963) 146-61.
Lowe, N.J. "Tragic Space and Comic Timing in Menander's Dyskolos," BICS 34 (1987) 126-38.
Wiles, D. "Menander's Dyskolos and Demetrios of Phaleron's dilemma: a study of the play in its historical context—the trial of Phokion, the ideals of a moderate oligarch, and the rancour of the disfranchized," G&R 31 (1984) 170-80.

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ROMAN DRAMA (compare above: NEW COMEDY)

Anderson, W.S. "The Roman Transformation of Greek Domestic Comedy," CW 88 (1995) 171.
Beacham, R.C. The Roman Theatre and Its Audience. New York, 1991.
Beare, W. The Roman Stage. Third edition. London, 1964.
Brown, P.G.M. "Actors and Actor-Managers at Rome in the Time of Plautus and Terence," Greek and Roman Actors (2002) 225-37.
Csapo, E.G. "A Case Study in the Use of Theatre Iconography as Evidence for Ancient Acting," AK 36 (1993) 41-58.
Duckworth, G.E. The Nature of Roman Comedy. 2nd Edition with a Foreword and Bibliographical Appendix by Richard Hunter. Norman, 1994.
Dudley, D.R. and T.A. Dorey, eds. Roman Drama. London, 1965.
Garton, C. Personal Aspects of the Roman Theatre. Toronto, 1972.
Gentili, B. Theatrical Performance in the Ancient World. Hellenistic and Early Roman Theatre. 1979.
Gratwick, A.S. "Drama," in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, II: Latin Literature (Cambridge, 1982) 77-137.
Johnston, P.A. "Poenulus 1.2 and Roman Women," TAPA 110 (1980) 143-159.
Jory, E.J. "Continuity and Change in the Roman Theatre," in Studies in Honour of T.B.L. Webster, vol. 1 (Bristol, 1986) 143-52.
Konstan, D. Roman Comedy. Ithaca, 1983.
Martindale, C., and A.B. Taylor, eds. Shakespeare and the classics. Cambridge and New York, 2004.
McLeish, K. Roman Comedy. Bristol, 1986.
Miola, R.S. Shakespeare and Classical Comedy. The Influence of Plautus and Terence. Oxford, 1994.
Moore, T.J. "Seats and Social Status in the Plautine Theatre," CJ 90 (1995) 113-123.
Norwood, G. Plautus and Terence. New York, 1932.
Parker, H. "Crucially Funny or Tranio on the Couch: the Servus Callidus and Jokes about Torture," TAPA 119 (1989) 233-46.
Saunders, C. Costume in Roman Comedy. New York, 1966.
Sear, F.B. "Vitruvius and Roman Theater Design," AJA 94 (1990) 249-58.
Sheets, G.A. "Plautus and Early Roman Tragedy," ICS 8 (1983) 195-209.
Small, D.B. "Studies in Roman Theater Design," AJA 87 (1983) 55-68.
Szemerényi, O. "The Origins of Roman Drama and Greek Tragedy," Hermes 103 (1975) 300-32.

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PLAUTUS

General

Anderson, W.S. Barbarian Play: Plautus' Roman Comedy. Toronto, 1993.
Anderson, W.S. "Plautus' Mastery of Comic Language," in E. Segal, ed., Oxford Readings in Menander (Oxford, 2001) 107-14.
Beare, W. "Plautus and his Public," CR 42 (1928) 106-11.
Bruster, D. "Comedy and Control: Shakespeare and the Plautine Poeta," Comparative Drama 24 (1990) 217-30.
Castellani, V. "Plautus versus Komoidia: Popular Farce at Rome," in J. Redmond, ed., Themes in Drama 10: Farce (Cambridge, 1988) 53-82.
Chalmers, W.R. "Plautus and his Audience," in D.R. Dudley and T.A. Dorey, eds., Roman Drama (London, 1965) 21-50.
Earl, D.C. "Political Terminology in Plautus," Historia 9 (1960) 235-43.
Gruen, E. "Plautus and the Public Stage," Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence (Oxford, 2001) 83-94.
Handley, E.W. Menander and Plautus: A Study in Comparison. London, 1968.
Hanson, J.A. "Plautus as a Source Book for Roman Religion," TAPA 90 (1950) 48-101.
Lowe, J.C.B. "Plautus' Choruses," RhM 133 (1990) 274-97.
Lowe, J.C.B. "Cooks in Plautus," ClAnt 4 (1985) 72-102.
Marshall, C.W. The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy. Cambridge, 2006.
Maurice, L. "Amici et sodales: An Examination of a Double Motif in Plautus," Mnemosyne 56.2 (2003) 164-93.
McCarthy, K. Slaves, masters, and the art of authority in Plautine comedy. Princeton, 2000.
Moore, T.J. The theater of Plautus: playing to the audience. Austin, 1998.
Moore, T.J. "The Theater of Plautus: Playing to the Audience," Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence (Oxford, 2001) 161-75.
Ramage, E.S. "Early Roman Urbanity," AJP 81 (1960) 65-72.
Rei, A. "Villains, wives, and slaves in the comedies of Plautus, " in S.R. Joshel and S. Murnaghan, eds., Women and slaves in Greco-Roman culture: differential equations (London and New York, 1998) 92.
Rosenmeyer, P.A. "Enacting the Law: Plautus' Use of the Divorce Formula on Stage," Phoenix 49 (1995) 201-17.
Rudd, N. The Classical Tradition in Operation. Toronto, 1994.
Segal, E. Roman Laughter: The Comedy of Plautus. Cambridge [Mass.], 1968.
Slater, N.W. Plautus in Performance. Princeton, 1985.
Vogt-Spira, G. "Traditions of Theatrical Improvisation in Plautus: Some Considerations," Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence (Oxford, 2001) 95-106.
Wiles, D. "Taking Farce Seriously: Recent Critical Approaches to Plautus," in J. Redmond, ed., Themes in Drama 10: Farce (Cambridge, 1988) 261-72.
Wright, J. Dancing in Chains. Rome, 1974.
Zagagi, N. Tradition and Originality in Plautus. Göttingen, 1980.
Zagagi, N. "Mythological Hyperboles and Plautus," CQ 36 (1986) 267.

Amphitruo

Bond, R.P. "Plautus' Amphitryo as Tragi-comedy," G&R 46 (1999) 203-20.
Christenson, D., ed. Plautus: Amphitruo. Cambridge, 2000.
Christenson, D. "Grotesque Realism in Plautus' Amphitruo," CJ 96 (2001) 243-60.
Dupont, F. "The Theatrical Significance of Duplication in Plautus' Amphitruo," Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence (Oxford, 2001) 176-88.
Forehand, W.E. "Irony in Plautus' Amphitruo," AJP 92 (1971) 633-51.
Hannah, R. "Alcumena's Long Night: Plautus, Amphitryo 273-276," Latomus 52 (1993) 65-74.
Hunter, R. "Middle Comedy and the Amphitruo of Plautus," Dioniso 57 (1987) 281-98.
McDonnell, M. "Ambitus and Plautus' Amphitruo 65-81," AJP 107 (1986) 564-76.
Moore, T. "Tragicomedy as a Running Joke: Plautus' Amphitruo in Performance," in How is it Played? Genre, Performance and Meaning (Didaskalia Supplement 1, 1995).
Nesselrath, H.-G. "Myth, Parody, and Comic Plots: The Birth of Gods and Middle Comedy," in G. Dobrov, ed. Beyond Aristophanes: Transition and Diversity in Greek Comedy (Atlanta, 1995) 1-28.
O'Neill, P. "Triumph Songs, reversal and Plautus' Amphitruo," Ramus 32 (2003) 1-38.
Phillips, J. E. "Alcumena in the Amphitruo of Plautus. A Pregnant Lady Joke," CJ 80 (1985) 121-26.
Prescott, H.W. "The Amphitruo of Plautus," CP 8 (1913) 14-22.
Saylor, C. "Amphitryon: the Play on Virtus," Studies in Latin Literature 9 (1998) 5-22.
Reinhardt, U. "Amphitryon und Amphitruo," in U. Reinhardt and K. Sallmann, eds., Musa Iocosa (Hildesheim, 1974) 95-130.
Schoeman, A. "Mercury and metatheatre: The antelogium in Plautus' Amphitruo," Akroterion 43 (1998) 32-42.
Schoeman, A. "Mercury and metatheatre II: The argumentum in Plautus' Amphitruo," Akroterion 44 (1999) 38-55.
Slater, N. "Amphitruo, Bacchae, and Metatheatre," Lexis 5-6 (1990) 101-25.
Stewart, Z. "Plautus' Amphitruo: Three Problems," HSCP 100 (2000) 293-300.
Stewart, Z. "The God Nocturnus in Plautus' Amphitruo," JRS 50 (1960) 37-43.
Stewart, Z. "The Amphitruo of Plautus and Euripides' Bacchae," TAPA 89 (1958) 348-73.
Webster, T.B.L. Studies in Later Greek Comedy. Second edition. Manchester, 1970. [pp. 86-97]
The Amphitryo Theme
- Costa, C.D.N. "The Amphitryo Theme," in D.R. Dudley and T.A. Dorey, eds., Roman Drama (London, 1965) 87-122.
- Forehand, W.E. "Adaptation and the Comic Intent: Plautus' Amphitruo and Molière's Amphitryon," CLS 11 (1974) 204-17.
- Galinsky, K. The Herakles Theme. Oxford, 1972.
- Katovich, M. "Dryden's Amphitryon and Its Predecessors."
- Passage, C.E., and J.H. Mantinband, transl. Amphitryon: The Legend and Three Plays. Chapel Hill, 1973.
- Romano, A.C. "The Amphitryon Theme Again," Latomus 33 (1974) 874-90.
Shakespeare, Comedy of Errors
- Arthos, J. "Shakespeare's Transformation of Plautus," Comparative Drama 1.4 (1967-1968) 239-53.
- Arthos, J. Shakespeare: The Early Writings. London, 1972.
- Baldwin, T.W. On the Compositional Genetics of The Comedy of Errors. Urbana, 1965.
- Barber, C.L. "Shakespearian Comedy in The Comedy of Errors," College English 25.7 (1964) 493-97.
- Candido, J. "Dining Out in Ephesus: Food in The Comedy of Errors," Studies in English Literature 1500-1900 30 (1990) 217-41.
- Charlton, H.B. Shakespeare's Recoil from Romanticism. Manchester, 1931.
- Dodd, A.H. Elizabethan England. London, 1973.
- Dorsch, T.S., ed. The Comedy of Errors. Cambridge, 1988.
- Levin, H. "Two Comedies of Errors," in Stratford Papers on Shakespeare (Toronto, 1963) 35-57.
- Martindale, C., and A.B. Taylor, eds. Shakespeare and the classics. Cambridge and New York, 2004.
- Rouse, W.H.D., ed. The Menaechmi: The Original of Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. London, 1912.
- Rowse, A.L., ed. Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors. Lanham, 1987.
- West, G. "Lost Humour in The Comedy of Errors and Twelfth Night," English Studies 71 (1990) 6-15.

Casina

Andrews, N.E. "Tragic Re-Presentation and the Semantics of Space in Plautus Casina," Mnemosyne 57 (2004) 445-64.
Arnott, W.G. "Amorous Scenes in Plautus," Leeds International Latin Seminar 8 (1995) 1-17.
Connors, C. "Scents and sensibility in Plautus' Casina," CQ 47 (1997) 305.
Forehand, W.E. "Plautus' 'Casina': An Explication," Arethusa 6.2 (1973) 233-56.
Frank, T. "On the Dates of Plautus' Casina and Its Revival," AJP 54 (1933) 368-72.
Franko, G.F. "Imagery and Names in Plautus' Casina," CJ 95 (1999) 1-17.
Franko, G.F. "Plautus and Roman New Comedy [with translation of Casina]," Greek and Roman Comedy (2001) 147-239.
Gold, B. "'Vested Interests' in Plautus' Casina: Cross-Dressing in Roman Comedy," Helios 25 (1998) 17-30.
Hallett, J.P. "The Political Backdrop of Plautus's Casina," Transitions to Empire (1996) 409-38.
Lowe, J.C.B. "The Lot-Drawing Scene of Plautus' Casina," CQ 53 (2003) 175-83.
Muecke, F. "Plautus and the Theater of Disguise," ClAnt 5 (1986) 216-29.
O'Bryhim, S. "The Originality of Plautus' Casina," AJP 110 (1989) 81-103.
Packman, Z.M. "Feminine Role Designations in the Comedies of Plautus," AJP 120 (1999) 245-58.
Ryder, K.C. "The Senes Amator in Plautus," G&R 31 (1984) 181-89.
Thomas, J.W. "The Blunt-Edged Sword: Death, Mock-Tragedy, and the Gallows-Humor in Plautus," CB 77 (2001) 19-33.
Way, M.L. "Violence and the Performance of Class in Plautus' Casina," Helios 27 (2000) 187-206.
Williams, B. "Games people play: metatheatre as performance criticism in Plautus' Casina," Ramus 22 (1993) 33-59.

The Pot of Gold (Aulularia)

Arnott, W.G. "A Study in Relationships: Alexis' Lebes, Menander's Dyskolos, Plautus' Aulularia," QUCC 62 (1990) 27-38.
Bain, D. "A Recent Suggestion about the Original of Plautus' Aulularia," LCM 17 (1992) 68-70.
Konstan, D. "The Social Themes in Plautus' Aulularia," Arethusa 10 (1977) 307-20.
Rosivach, V.J. "Plautine Stage Settings (Asin., Aul., Men., Trin.)," TAPA 101 (1970) 445-62.

Pseudolus

Augoustakis, A. "Surus cor perfrigefacit: Elephants in Plautus' Pseudolus," Philologus 151 (2007) 177-82.
Barsby, J. "Plautus' Pseudolus as improvisatory drama," in L. Benz, E. Stärk, G. Vogt-Spira, eds., Plautus und die Tradition des Stegreifspiels. Festgabe für Eckard Lefèvre zum 60. Geburtstag (Tübingen, 1995) 55-70.
Bruster, D. "'Nor Plautus too light': Hamlet 1.2.184-85 and Plautus's Pseudolus," ANQ 4 (1991) 118-19.
Forehand, W.E. "Pseudolus 868-872: Ut Medea Peliam concoxit," CJ 67 (1971) 293-98.
Griffith, J.G. "Some Misgivings Concerning the Present State of Criticism of Plautus' Pseudolus," in Festinat senex, or An Old Man In a Hurry (Oxford, 1988) 50-63.
Hallett, J.P. "Plautine ingredients in the performance of the Pseudolus," CW 87 (1993) 21-26.
Lowe, J.L.B. "The Cook Scene of Plautus' Pseudolus," CQ 35 (1985) 411-16.
Lowe, J.C.B. "Pseudolus' 'Intrigue' againt Simo," Maia 51.1 (1999) 1-15.
O'Bryhim, S. "Adonis in Plautus' Pseudolus," CP 102 (2007) 304-06.
Sedgwick, W.B. "Parody in Plautus," CQ 21 (1927) 88-89.
Sharrock, A.R. "The art of deceit: Pseudolus and the nature of reading," CQ 46 (1996) 152-74.
Stehle, E. "Pseudolus as Socrates, Poet and Trickster," in Classical Texts and their Traditions (Chico, 1984) 239-51.
Willcock, M.M., ed. Plautus, Pseudolus. Bristol, 1987.
Williams, G. "Some Problems in the Construction of Plautus' Pseudolus," Hermes 84 (1956) 424-55.
Wright, J. "The Transformations of Pseudolus," TAPA 105 (1975) 403-16.

The Swaggering Soldier (Miles Gloriosus)

Frangoulidis, S.A. "Palaestrio as Playwright: Plautus, Miles Gloriosus 209-212," Studies in Latin Literature and Roman History 7 (1994) 72-86.
Hanson, J.A. "The Glorious Military," in D.R. Dudley and T.A. Dorey, eds., Roman Drama (London, 1965) 51-85.
Williams, G. "Evidence for Plautus' Workmanship in the Miles Gloriosus," Hermes 86 (1958) 79-105.

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TERENCE

General

Anderson, W.S. "Resistance to Recognition and 'Privileged Recognition' in Terence," CJ 98 (2002) 1-8.
Arnott, W.G. "Terence's Prologues," in Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar, vol. 5 (1986) 1-7.
Beare, W. "Plautus, Terence and Seneca: A Comparison of Aims and Methods," Classical Drama and Its Influence (1965) 101-15.
Boyle, A.J. "Introduction: Terence's Mirror Stage," Ramus 33 (2004) 1-10.
Brown, P.G.M. "Actors and Actor-Managers at Rome in the Time of Plautus and Terence," Greek and Roman Actors (2002) 225-37.
Earl, D.C. "Terence and Roman Politics," Historia 11 (1962) 469-85.
Fantham, E. "Terence and the Familiarisation of Comedy," Ramus 33 (2004) 21-34.
Forehand, W.E. Terence. Boston, 1985.
Giula, D. "The First Realistic Roles in European Theatre: Terence's Prologues," QUCC 62 (1990) 95-106.
Gilula, D. "Menander's 'choros,' and where not to find it in Terence," Latomus 39 (1980) 694-701.
Gilula, D. "How Rich was Terence?" SCI 8-9 (1985-1988) 74-78.
Goldberg, S.M. "Terence and the Death of Comedy," Drama and the Classical Heritage (1993) 52-64.
Goldberg, S.M. "Terence, Cato, and the Rhetorical Prologue," CP 78 (1983) 198-211.
Goldberg, S.M. Understanding Terence. Princeton, 1986.
Gowers, E. "The Plot Thickens: Hidden Outlines in Terence's Prologues," Ramus 33 (2004) 150-66.
Lowe, J.C.B. "Terence's Four-Speaker Scenes," Phoenix 51 (1997) 152-69.
Ludwig, W. "The Originality of Terence and his Greek Models," GRBS 9 (1968) 169-82. [Also: Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence (Oxford, 2001) 205-15.]
Maltby, R. "The Distribution of Greek Loan-words in Terence," CQ 35 (1985) 110-23.
McCarthy, K. "The Joker in the Pack: Slaves in Terence," Ramus 33 (2004) 100-19.
McElduff, S. "More than Menander's Acolyte: Terence as Translator," Ramus 33 (2004)
Norwood, G. The Art of Terence. Oxford, 1923. 120-29.
Parker, H.N. "Plautus vs. Terence: Audience and Popularity Re-examined," AJP 117 (1996) 585.
Slater, N.W. "Two Republican Poets on Drama: Terence and Accius," in Antike Dramentheorien und ihre Rezeption (Stuttgart, 1992) 85-103.

The Brothers (Adelphoe)

Brown, P.G.M. "Aeschinus at the Door: Terence, Adelphoe 632-643 and the Traditions of Greco-Roman Comedy," Leeds International Latin Seminar 8 (1995) 71-89.
Fantham, E. "Hautontimorumenos and Adelphoe: A Study of Fatherhood in Terence and Menander," Latomus 30 (1971) 970-98.
Frauenfelder, D.W. "Respecting Terence, Adelphoe 155-75," CW 90 (1996) 23-32.
Lowe, J.C.B. "Terence, Adelphoe: problems of dramatic space and time," CQ 48 (1998) 470-86.
Mauger-Plichon, B. "Terence et le probleme de l'education: reflexions sur les Adelphes et l'Heautontimoroumenos," Latomus 59 (2000) 802-18.
Rosivach, V.J. "Terms of Censure in the Adelphoe," NECJ 28 (2001) 222-29.

The Girl from Andros (Andria)

Anderson, W.S. "The Invention of Sosia for Terence's First Comedy, the Andria," Ramus 33 (2004) 10-19.
Goldberg, S.M. "The Dramatic Balance of Terence's Andria," in E. Segal, ed., Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence (Oxford, 2001) 216-23.
Johnson, A.C. "The Date of Menander's Andria," AJP 35 (1914) 326-29.
Richardson, Jr., L. "The Moral Problems of Terence's Andria and Reconstruction of Menander's Andria and Perinthia," GRBS 38 (1997) 173-86.
Victor, B. "Four Passages in the Andria of Terence," EMC 15 (1996) 371-77.
Victor, B. "Further Remarks on the Andria of Terence," HSCP 99 (1999) 269-74.
Victor, B. "Remarks on the Andria of Terence," HSCP 95 (1993) 273.
Victor, B.A. "The alter exitus Andriae," Latomus 48 (1989) 63-74.

The Mother-in-Law (Hecyra)

Gilula, D. "Terence's Hecyra: A Delicate Balance of Suspense and Dramatic Irony," Scripta Classica Israelica 5 (1979/1980) 137-57.
Ireland, S., ed. Terence, The Mother-in-Law. Warminster, 1990.
Lowe, J.C.B. "Terentian Originality in the Phormio and Hecyra," Hermes 111 (1983) 431-52.

The Self-Tormentor (Heautontimorumenos)

Brothers, A.J. "The Construction of Terence's Heautontimorumenos," CQ 74 (1980) 94-119.
Brothers, A.J., ed. Terence: The Self-Tormentor. Warminster, 1988.
Fantham, E. "Heautontimourumenos and Adelphoe: A Study of Fatherhood in Terence and Menander," Latomus 30 (1971) 970-98.
Knorr, O. "The Character of Bacchis in Terence's Heautontimorumenos," AJP 116 (1995) 221.
Maltby, R. "The Last Act of Terence's Heautontimorumenos," in Papers of the Liverpool Latin Seminar 4 (Liverpool, 1984) 27-41.
McGarrity, T. "Thematic Unity in Terence's Andria," TAPA 108 (1978) 103-14.
Rosivach,J. "The Stage Settings of the Rudens and the Heauton Timoroumenos," RSC 26 (1978) 388-402.

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SENECA

General

Arkins, B. "Heavy Seneca: His Influence on Shakespeare's Tragedies," Classics Ireland 2 (1995) 1-16.
Bishop, J.D. Seneca's Daggered Stylus, Political Code in the Tragedies. Königstein, 1985.
Boyle, A.J. Tragic Seneca: An Essay in the Theatrical Tradition. London, 1997.
Boyle, A.J. "Senecan Tragedy: Twelve Propositions," Ramus 16 (1987) 78-101.
Boyle, A.J., ed. Seneca Tragicus. Australia, 1983.
Braden, G. Renaissance Tragedy and the Senecan Tradition. New Haven and London, 1985.
Costa, C.D.N., ed. Seneca. London and Boston, 1974.
Davis, P. Shifting Song: The Chorus in Seneca's Tragedies. Hildesheim, 1993.
Fantham, E. transl. and comm. Seneca's Troades. Princeton, 1982.
Griffin, M. Seneca, A Philosopher in Politics. Oxford, 1976.
Henry, D. and E. Henry. The Mask of Power. Warminster and Chicago, 1985.
Herington, C. "Senecan Tragedy," Arion 5 (1966) 422-71.
Herington, C.J. "Senecan Tragedy," in The Cambridge History of Classical Literature, II: Latin Literature 519-30.
Hunter, G.K. "Seneca and Elizabethan Tragedy," in C.D.N. Costa, ed., Seneca (London and Boston, 1974) 166-204.
Hutchinson, G.O. Latin literature from Seneca to Juvenal. Oxford, 1993
Lloyd-Evans, G. "Shakespeare, Seneca, and the Kingdom of Violence," in D.R. Dudley and T.A. Dorey, eds., Roman Drama (London, 1965) 123-59.
Lucas, F.L. Seneca and Elizabethan Tragedy. Cambridge, 1922.
Marti, B.M. "Seneca's Tragedies. A New Interpretation," TAPA 76 (1945) 216-45.
Marti, B.M. "The Prototypes of Seneca's Tragedies," CP 42 (1947) 1-16.
Mendell, C.W. Our Seneca. New Haven, 1941.
Miola, R.S. Shakespeare and Classical Tragedy. Oxford, 1992.
Pratt, N.T. Seneca's Drama. Chapel Hill, 1983.
Sutton, D.F. Seneca on the Stage. Leiden, 1986.
Tarrant, R.J. "Senecan Drama and its Antecedants," HSCP 82 (1978) 213-63.

Medea

Costa, C.D.N., ed. Seneca, Medea. Oxford, 1973.
Edgeworth, R.J. "The Eloquent Ghost: Absyrtus in Seneca's Medea," C&M 41 (1990) 151-161.
Fyfe, H. "An Analysis of Seneca's Medea," in A.J. Boyle ed., Seneca Tragicus (Australia, 1983) 77-93.
Hine, H.M. "Medea versus the Chorus: Seneca Medea 1-115," Mnemosyne 42 (1989) 413-19.
Johnson, W.R. "Medea Nunc Sum: The Close of Seneca's Version," in Language and the Tragic Hero (P. Pucci ed. Atlanta, 1988) 85-102.
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Greek and Roman Drama: A Bibliography compiled by John Porter

GENERAL BACKGROUND

BIBLIOGRAPHIES

THE ORIGIN OF TRAGEDY

THE GREEK THEATER AND THEATRICAL PRODUCTION

GREEK TRAGEDY: GENERAL

AESCHYLUS

SOPHOCLES

Electra

EURIPIDES

Helen

Aristotle, Poetics

OLD COMEDY

ARISTOPHANES

MIDDLE COMEDY

NEW COMEDY (compare below: ROMAN DRAMA)

MENANDER

ROMAN DRAMA (compare above: NEW COMEDY)

PLAUTUS

TERENCE

SENECA

Greek and Roman Drama: A Bibliography
compiled by John Porter