Greek Tragedy and the British Stage, 1566-1997

1.1 Reference code: 
6816
1.3 Date: 
1999
1.5 Media: 
Print-out
3.1 Content: 
journal article
4.1 Conditions of Access: 
refer to archivist
4.2 Conditions of Reproduction: 
refer to archivist
6.1 Archivist's note: 
Cahiers du Gita, no.12: La Tradition Créatrice di Théâtre Antique, pp.113-134
Associated ancient plays: 
Phoinissai (The Phoenician Women)
Choephoroi (The Libation Bearers)
Eumenides
Orestes
Agamemnon
Aias (Ajax)
Antigone
Thyestes
Elektra
Agamemnon
Iphigenia among the Taurians
Oedipus the King
Oedipus
Medea
Medea
Ion
Hippolytos
Herakleidai (The Children of Heracles)
Hekabe (Hecuba)
Philoktetes
Trachiniai (The Women of Trachis)
Alkestis
Herakles
Oedipus at Colonus
Birds
Prometheus Bound
Trojan Women
Elektra
Bacchai
Lysistrata
Persai (Persians)
Ichneutai (The Trackers) [fragments]

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Production First performed Venues
Horestes (1550 - 1567) 1550 British Museum, Lecture Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Ajax Flagellifer [a planned performance] (1564) 1564 King's College (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England)
Jocasta (1566) 1566 Gray's Inn (London, Greater London, England)
Antigone (1581) 1581 St John's College (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England)
Agamemnon (1599) 1599 The Rose Playhouse (Tudor) (London, Greater London, England)
Orestes' Furies (1599) 1599 The Rose Playhouse (Tudor) (London, Greater London, England)
The Tragedie of Orestes (1609 - 1619) 1609 Christ Church (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England)
Circe (1677) 1677 Dorset Garden Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Oedipus (1678 - 1679) 1678 Dorset Garden Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Phaeton; or The Fatal Divorce (1698) 1698 Drury Lane (London, Greater London, England)
Iphigenia (1699) 1699 Lincoln's Inn Fields (London, Greater London, England)
Phædra and Hippolitus (1707) 1707 Queen's Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1714) 1714 Mile End Green (London, Greater London, England)
Hippolytus (1720) 1720 Royal Free School (Dublin, Munster, Republic of Ireland)
Philoctetes (1720 - 1726) 1720 Royal Free School (Dublin, Munster, Republic of Ireland)
The Fatal Legacy (1723) 1723 British Museum, Lecture Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Agamemnon (1738) 1738 Drury Lane (London, Greater London, England)
Creusa, Queen of Athens (1754) 1754 Drury Lane (London, Greater London, England)
Hecuba (1761) 1761 Drury Lane (London, Greater London, England)
Medea (1767) 1767 Drury Lane (London, Greater London, England)
Trachinians (1776) 1776 Stanmore School (England)
Œdipus Tyrannus (1776) 1776 Stanmore School (England)
The Royal Suppliants (1781) 1781 Drury Lane (London, Greater London, England)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1806) 1806 Reading Town Hall (Reading, Borough of Reading, England)
Alcestis (1809) 1809 Reading Town Hall (Reading, Borough of Reading, England)
Heracles (1818) 1818 Reading Town Hall (Reading, Borough of Reading, England)
Antigone; or, Theban Sister (1821) 1821 Theatre Royal (Norwich, County of Norfolk, England), Surrey Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Orestes (1821) 1821 Reading Town Hall (Reading, Borough of Reading, England)
Oedipus Tyrannus (1821) 1821 Royal West London Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Antigone; or, Theban Sister (1824) 1824 Surrey Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Alcestis (1824) 1824 Reading Town Hall (Reading, Borough of Reading, England)
Orestes in Argos (1825) 1825 Covent Garden (London, Greater London, England)
Hecuba (1827) 1827 Reading Town Hall (Reading, Borough of Reading, England)
Ion (1836) 1836 Covent Garden (London, Greater London, England)
Antigone (1841) 1841 unknown venue (Dresden, Saxony, Germany), unknown venue (Munich, Free State of Bavaria, Germany), unknown venue (Karlsruhe, Baden-Württemberg, Germany), unknown venue (Leipzig, Saxony, Germany), Theater des Neuen Palais (Potsdam, Brandenburg, Germany), Königliches Schauspielhaus / Konzerthaus (1821-), Königliches Schauspielhaus, Staatstheater, Staatstheater Großes Haus, Konzerthaus am Gendarmenmarkt, Konzerthaus (Berlin, Land Berlin, Germany)
Antigone (1845) 1845 Covent Garden (London, Greater London, England)
Antigone Travestie (1845) 1845 Strand Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
The Golden Fleece; or, Jason in Colchis and Medea in Corinth (1845 - 1847) 1845 King's Theatre in the Haymarket (London, Greater London, England)
The Birds (1846) 1846 King's Theatre in the Haymarket (London, Greater London, England)
Medea (1856) 1856 Théâtre Italien (Paris, Île-de-France, France), Salle Ventadour (Paris, Île-de-France, France), Lyceum Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Prometheus; or Man on the Rock! (1865) 1865 New Royalty Theatre (London, Greater London, England), Prince's Hall, Piccadilly (London, Greater London, England)
Agamemnon and Cassandra; or Prophet and Loss of Troy! (1868) 1868 Prince of Wales Theatre (Liverpool, City and Borough of Liverpool, England), unknown venue (Dublin, Munster, Republic of Ireland), unknown venue (Portsmouth, City of Portsmouth, England)
Medea in Corinth (1872) 1872 Lyceum Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Agamemnon (1880) 1880 Balliol College (Oxford, County of Oxfordshire, England), St George's Hall (London, Greater London, England), Eton College (Windsor, West Berkshire, England), Winchester College (Winchester, County of Hampshire, England), Harrow School (London Borough of Harrow, Greater London, England), unknown venue (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England)
Elektra (1883) 1883 Girton College (Cambridge, County of Cambridgeshire, England)
Hippolytus (1904) 1904 Royal Court Theatre, Court Theatre (London, Greater London, England), Lyric Theatre ( Shaftesbury Avenue) (City of Westminster, Greater London, England)
The Trojan Women (1905) 1905 Royal Court Theatre, Court Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Electra (1906) 1906 Royal Court Theatre, Court Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Medea (1907) 1907 Savoy Theatre (London, Greater London, England)
Bacchae (1908) 1908 Royal Court Theatre, Court Theatre (London, Greater London, England)