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Performing Greek Drama in Oxford and on Tour with the Balliol Players

Performing Greek Drama In Oxford
Amanda Wrigley
2011
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    Performing Greek Drama in Oxford is an absorbing celebration of the performance and reception of Greek drama in Oxford. Amanda Wrigley traces enduring connections between antiquity and dramatic performance in modern Oxford, and discusses the landmark events from the 16th century to the 1970s. This performance history of classical texts, especially those by the Greek dramatists, illuminates contemporary responses to debates on such matters as the position of women students, the ‘dangers’ perceived to be associated with undergraduate acting, and the position of classics within the curriculum at the University of Oxford. 

    Publisher
    Exeter University Press

    0. 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