Greek and Roman Drama: Translation and Performance

The volume containing papers from the Otago conference was published in October 2002: John Barsby (ed.) Greek and Roman Drama: Translation and Performance, DRAMA Band 12, Suttgart and Weimar: J.B.Metzler Verlag, 2002.

CONTENTS

INTRODUCTION
John Barsby, Translation and performance, p.1

TRAGEDY IN PERFORMANCE
Oliver Taplin, An academic in the rehearsal room, p.7

Harry Love, Oedipus at this point in time: divine will on a secular stage, p.23

Robin Bond, (Re)inventing Euripides' Bacchae, p.49

Michael Ewans, Performance-based research into Greek drama, p.58

COMEDY IN PERFORMANCE
Richard Beacham, Playing aroud with Plautus, or 'How can I be expected to act with all these people looking at me?' p.79

Paul Monaghan, The Plautine persona, p.99

Richard Williams, Performance and dramatic discourse in New Comedy, p.125

Ian Storey, Cutting comedies, p.146

TRANSLATION FORUM
Richard Beacham, Robin Bond, Michael Ewans, p.168

RECEPTION
Chris Dearden, From Athens to Magna Graecia: dramatic vision, p.183

Jessie Maritz, Greek drama in Rhodesia/Zimbabwe, p.197

Dmitri Troubotchkine, Ancient drama in Russia in the 1910s and 1920s, p.216

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS, p.233

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