Taplin’s chapter on round plays in square theaters (Taplin 1978) introduces a number of problems related to modern productions (and see Walton 1987). A theoretically based analysis of the classics on the modern stage and a short history of the development of the director’s theater is given by A. S. Green 1994. More recent developments are analyzed by Decreus 2003, whose article contains an extensive bibliography. Rehm 2003 is a thought-provoking plea for staging the classics in our modern world.
There are many surveys of the modern reception of ancient drama. McDonald 2003 is a good start for exploring the field. Flashar 1991 surveys the reception of ancient drama in the world theater, with special focus on German-speaking countries and a small chapter on foreign productions. McDonald 1992 offers a more in-depth treatment of a limited number of important productions and directors. Hall, Macintosh, and Wrigley 2004 focuses on the last decades of the twentieth century. Other article collections covering international productions are Flashar 1997, Mercouris 1998, Patsalidis and Sakellaridou 1999, Hardwick et al. 2000. On reception studies in general see Hardwick 2003b.
On global reception: Africa (Wetmore 2002), Canada (Day 1999), Czech Republic (Stehlikova 2000, 2001), Germany (Flashar 1991), Ireland (McDonald and Walton 2002), Netherlands (Haak 1977, Altena 1999), Poland (Axer and Borowska 1999), Portugal (Fatima Sousa e Silva 1998, 1999), Rhodesia/Zimbabwe (Maritz 2002), Scotland (Hardwick 2003a), South
Africa (Mezzabotta 2000), Taiwan (Williams 1999), UK (Hall 1999b, Hazel 1999, Hall and Macintosh 2004), United States (Hartigan 1995). On the reception of individual plays: Aeschylus’ Oresteia (Chioles 1993, Bierl 1997), Agamemnon (Macintosh et al. forthcoming), Sophocles’ Oedipus the King (Macintosh, forthcoming), Euripides’ Medea (Hall, Macintosh, and Taplin 2000).
Several institutions maintain websites devoted to the modern reception: the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford University (Www. apgrd. ox. ac. uk/), the European Network of Research and Documentation of Ancient Greek Drama in Athens (Www. cc. uoa. gr/drama/network/index. html), and the Reception of Texts and Images of Ancient Greece in Late Twentieth-Century Drama and Poetry in English research project at the Open University in Milton Keynes (www2.open. ac. uk/ClassicalStudies/GreekPlays/). This website also hosts the electronic journal Didaskalia (didaskalia. open. ac. uk/), with special issues on reception, reviews, and listings of performances. Journals and periodicals devoted to the reception of ancient Greek drama are listed in Hazel 2001 (also available on the Open University’s website). The German periodical Drama: Beitrage zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption features a large number of special issues devoted to the reception of Greek and Roman drama. A journal that appeared as this volume was in press, Arion 11.1 (2003), contains contributions by leading contemporary theater directors and scholars to the 2002 Symposium on Ancient Drama at the J. Paul Getty Museum.
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