Performing Greek Drama in Oxford and on Tour with the Balliol Players
Distributed for Liverpool University Press
Performing Greek Drama in Oxford is a celebration of the performance and reception of Greek drama in Oxford, as well as an exploration of the enduring connections between antiquity and landmark dramatic events from the sixteenth-century to the 1970s. The book offers a performance history of classical texts, as well as an illumination of contemporary responses to debates on such matters as the position of women, the “dangers” associated with undergraduate acting, and the position of classics within the Oxford curriculum, Amanda Wrigley situates the Oxford reception of these plays in a context extending to groups such as John Masefield’s Boars Hill Players and their relationship to the London stage, as well as to touring companies such as those led by Sybil Thorndike.
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Abbreviations
Foreword
Acknowledgements
Introduction: Oxford’s Greek play ‘tradition’
1. The academic drama in the humanist curriculum and culture of Oxford
2. ‘The Young Men in Women’s Clothes’
3. Languages of Translation: productions in ancient Greek by OUDS, 1887-1914
4. Women, war and Gilbert Murray
5. The Oxford Playhouse, inter-war OUDS and connections with BBC Radio
6. The Balliol Players’ social idealism and their performances for Thomas Hardy, 1923-1927
7. ‘A first-class excuse for legitimate vagabondage’: the Balliol Players, 1928-1939
8. The Aristophanic Balliol Players, 1947-1976
Notes
Appendix: Production Chronology
Bibliography
Index
Literature and Literary Criticism: Dramatic Works
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