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A reading and discussion of Euripides' Bacchae (translated by Theodore Alois Buckley). Nichole Bird, Vincent Brimble, Sarah Finigan, Tony Jayawardena, Richard Neale, Paul O'Mahony, and Janet Spencer-Turner perform select scenes, with Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) and Timothy Moore (Washington University of St. Louis) leading the discussion. Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre.
Text available at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/5303.
Scene selections:
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Credits:
Dionysus - Tony Jayawardena
Pentheus - Richard Neale
Tiresias - Paul O’Mahony
Kadmos - Vincent Brimble
Agaue - Janet Spencer-Turner
Chorus - Nichole Bird and Sarah Finigan
Director - Paul O'Mahony
More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081
Suggested further reading and listening:
1) "Seven Greek tragedies, seven simple overviews" by Gregory Nagy: https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/seven-greek-tragedies-seven-simple-overviews/
2) BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Bacchae: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000t6kp
3) BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Greek and Latin Voices (Euripides), Episode 2: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0092d80
4) "The Dangerous Liberation of Theater" by Helene Foley: https://eidolon.pub/the-dangerous-liberation-of-theater-9d08c68973ea
5) Rankine, Patrice D. "Black is, black ain't: Classical Reception and Nothingness in Ralph Ellison, Derek Walcott and Wole Soyinka." Revue de littérature comparée, vol. 344, no. 4, 2012, pp. 457-474.
A reading and discussion of Euripides' Bacchae (translated by Theodore Alois Buckley). Nichole Bird, Vincent Brimble, Sarah Finigan, Tony Jayawardena, Richard Neale, Paul O'Mahony, and Janet Spencer-Turner perform select scenes, with Joel Christensen (Brandeis University) and Timothy Moore (Washington University of St. Louis) leading the discussion. Reading Greek Tragedy Online is presented by the Center for Hellenic Studies, the Kosmos Society, and Out of Chaos Theatre.
Text available at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/5303.
Scene selections:
1-64
170-329
460-518
775-1024
1167-end
Credits:
Dionysus - Tony Jayawardena
Pentheus - Richard Neale
Tiresias - Paul O’Mahony
Kadmos - Vincent Brimble
Agaue - Janet Spencer-Turner
Chorus - Nichole Bird and Sarah Finigan
Director - Paul O'Mahony
More information about the cast and featured speakers is at https://chs.harvard.edu/CHS/article/display/7081
Suggested further reading and listening:
1) "Seven Greek tragedies, seven simple overviews" by Gregory Nagy: https://classical-inquiries.chs.harvard.edu/seven-greek-tragedies-seven-simple-overviews/
2) BBC Radio 4 - In Our Time, The Bacchae: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m000t6kp
3) BBC Radio 3 - The Essay, Greek and Latin Voices (Euripides), Episode 2: bbc.co.uk/programmes/b0092d80
4) "The Dangerous Liberation of Theater" by Helene Foley: https://eidolon.pub/the-dangerous-liberation-of-theater-9d08c68973ea
5) Rankine, Patrice D. "Black is, black ain't: Classical Reception and Nothingness in Ralph Ellison, Derek Walcott and Wole Soyinka." Revue de littérature comparée, vol. 344, no. 4, 2012, pp. 457-474.
