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

Related productions

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)
Orestes' Furies (1599)	1599	The Rose Playhouse (Tudor) (London, Greater London, England)
Agamemnon (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)
Philoctetes (1720 - 1726)	1720	Royal Free School (Dublin, Munster, Republic of Ireland)
Hippolytus (1720)	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)
Œdipus Tyrannus (1776)	1776	Stanmore School (England)
Trachinians (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)
Alcestis (1824)	1824	Reading Town Hall (Reading, Borough of Reading, England)
Antigone; or, Theban Sister (1824)	1824	Surrey Theatre (London, Greater London, 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)

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)