Greek tragedy and the British theatre, 1660-1914

Abstract

1. Regicide, Restoration, and the English Oedipus 2. Iphigenia and the Glorious Revolution 3. Greek Tragedy as She-Tragedy 4. James Thomson's Tragedies of Opposition 5. Euripides' Ion, Coram's Foundlings, and Hardwicke's Marriage Act 6. Eighteenth-Century Electra 7. Caractacus at Colonus 8. Revolutionary Oedipuses 9. Greek Tragedy in Late Georgian Reading 10. Ruins and Rebels 11. Talfourd's Ancient Greeks in the Theatre of Reform 12. Antigone with Consequences 13. The Ideology of Classical Burlesque 14. Medea and Mid-Victorian Marriage Legislation 15. Page versus Stage: Greek Tragedy, the Academy, and the Popular Theatre 16. London's Greek Plays in the 1880s: George Warr and Uocial Philistinism 17. The Shavian Euripides and the Euripidean Shaw: Greek Tragedy and the New Drama 18. Greek Tragedy and the Cosmopolitan Ideal