Further Reading

Below you'll find below annotations to the sources that appear in the book, organised by genre.

General

Csapo, E. and Slater, W.J. (1995) The Context of Ancient Drama. Ann Arbor: University of Michigan Press.
The definitive sourcebook for all elements of ancient theatre – a superb resource.

Storey, I.C. and Allan, A. (2014) A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama. Chichester: John Wiley & Sons.
A superb and detailed introduction to ancient Greek drama for students – perhaps the best book to recommend for students as a starting point. 

Wiles, D. (2000) Greek Theatre Performance: An Introduction. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
This introduction mostly focuses on the performance of Greek drama, and especially on the techniques used by actors.

Sommerstein, A. (2002) Greek Drama and Dramatists. Abingdon: Routledge. 
An introduction to Greek drama with studies of all of the major Greek playwrights. It also contains a useful chronology.

Landels, J. (1998) Music in Ancient Greece and Rome. Abingdon: Routledge - Chapter 1.
An overview of the role music played in Greek life, including performance contexts and instruments.

Tragedy

Easterling, P.E. ed (1997) The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
A set of essays from leading academics in the field.

Taplin, O. (1977) The Stagecraft of Aeschylus: The Dramatic Use of Exits and Entrances in Greek Tragedy. Oxford: Clarendon Press.
A definitive work in the development of scholarship on Greek tragedy, emphasising the importance of visualising the plays. 

Gregory, J. (2005) A Companion to Greek Tragedy. Oxford: Blackwell.
A set of essays from leading academics in the field.

Swift, L. (2016) Greek Tragedy. London: Bloomsbury.
An introduction to the genre of tragedy and some of its major themes, accessible to school students.

Easterling, P.E. (1990) ‘Constructing Character in Greek Tragedy’, in C. Pelling (ed), Characterization and Individuality in Greek Literature, 83-99, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
A discussion of how tragedy deals with characterisation, and to what extent we should regard it as psychological.

Foley, H. (2001) Female Acts in Greek Tragedy. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
A classic discussion of tragedy’s portrayal of women.

Garvie, A. (2016) The Plays of Sophocles. London: Bloomsbury Academic - Chapter 4.
An accessible overview of Oedipus the King in a book aimed at students.

Knox, B.M.W. (1964) The Heroic Temper. Berkeley: University of California Press.
An influential study of the hero in Sophocles. Knox’s argument has had a good deal of impact in studies of tragic character, though it is not without its flaws. 

Mills, S. (2006) Euripides: Bacchae. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
An accessible and student-focused introduction to Bacchae.

Morwood, J. (2016) The Plays of Euripides. London; Bloomsbury Academic - Chapter 17.
A short overview of Bacchae, aimed at the student reader.

Parker, R. (1997) ‘Gods Cruel and Kind’, in C. Pelling (ed), Greek Tragedy and the Historian, 147–60, Oxford: Clarendon Press.
An important discussion of the morality of tragic religion.

Rutherford, R.B. (2012) Greek Tragic Style: Form, Language and Interpretation. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
A more advanced book, but a rich and thorough discussion of the style and language of Greek tragedy. 

Stuttard, D. (2012) Looking at Bacchae. London: Bloomsbury Academic.
A set of essays by leading scholars on Bacchae, aimed at a student audience.

Comedy

Cartledge, P. (1990) Aristophanes and His Theatre of the Absurd. London: Bloomsbury
An accessible introduction to Aristophanes in his wider context.

MacDowell, D.M. (1995) Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays. Oxford: Oxford University Press
A classic study of the plays of Aristophanes, with chapters on each play.

Revermann, M. ed (2014) The Cambridge Companion to Greek Comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press
A set of essays from leading academics in the field.

Robson, J. (2009) Aristophanes: An Introduction. London: Bloomsbury
An accessible and student-focused introduction to Aristophanes, structured by topic. 

Silk, M.S. (2002) Aristophanes and the Definition of Comedy. Oxford: Oxford University Press
A more advanced study of Aristophanes, with detailed discussion on Aristophanes’ style and his relationship with tragedy.

Bowie, A. (1996) Aristophanes: Myth, Ritual and Comedy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press - Chapter 10
A more advanced study, which focuses on Aristophanes’ use of myth and ritual, and the plays’ connections with religious practice.

Dover, K. (1974) Aristophanic Comedy. Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press - Chapter 15
An overview of Aristophanes, with particular attention paid to his techniques for achieving humour 

Konstan, D. (1995) Greek Comedy and Ideology. Oxford: Oxford University Press - Chapter 4
A more advanced book, put together from the author’s previously published papers on comedy. The chapter on Frogs focuses on the theme of salvation in the play.