History of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama
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Grant Holder:
Professor Oliver Taplin
The History of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama research project (1999-2004) operated under the aegis of the Archive of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama at Oxford. It has in many ways pioneered the developing discipline of Performance Reception. It has done this by documenting as comprehensively as possible all performances worldwide of Greek and Roman drama and their adaptations between the Renaissance and the present, while hand-in-hand with that also exploring ways of interpreting those findings and that material. The documentation is published as a searchable online database, with records for 8250+ productions gathered so far. The interpretation, which is open to various methodologies, has been conducted through lectures, seminars and conferences. It has also produced no fewer than four books, two already published (Medea in Performance and Dionysus Since 69, Oxford: Legenda and OUP respectively) and two which will be published before the end of 2005 (Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre and Agamemnon in Performance, both OUP). The APGRD itself, with the support of a new five-year AHRC grant (2004-2009), is now extending its scope to include performances of Greek and Roman drama in ancient times, and their reception and spread through opera and dance. The project has, we believe, opened up this fruitful approach to scholars throughout the world; and we are proud to be the centre of a flourishing interdisciplinary growth area.
| Project start date: 1999-09 | Project end date: 2004-09 |
Subject domains:
| Methods used | Category |
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| Manual input and transcription | Data capture |
Funding sources:
Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC)
Content types created:
Text
Software tools used:
Microsoft Access, Microsoft Active Server Pages (ASP)
Digital resource created:
The APGRD Database (http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/asp/database.htm), edited by Amanda Wrigley, holds records for more than 8250 productions of ancient Greek and Roman drama which have been staged from the 15th century to the present day (there are documented roughly 6,000 productions of Greek tragedy, 1,000 of Greek comedy, 300 of Roman tragedy, and 700 of Roman comedy). The following information has been collected - where available - on each production: the title, language and author of the script used; the dates and venues of the performances, together with information on festivals; the theatre company/ies involved, and the names of the people involved in the realisation of the production (directors, producers, composers, choreographers, designers, actors, etc). The sources used to collate this information are also recorded, with the Database holding almost 10,000 records for sources such as books, journals, newspapers, websites, theatre programmes, posters, photographs, videotapes, etc. The relationship in the Database between Production records and Source records is, of course, many-to-many, with over 18,500 'links' between Productions and their Sources. The publication of the APGRD Database on the internet enables the international community of scholars, students and other interested parties to perform searches based on any combination of criteria (e.g. all recorded productions of Bacchae in Italy between 1900 and 1920; all recorded film versions of Greek tragedy; all productions either using Tony Harrison’s translations, or with which he had direct involvement; and all recorded productions of Greek tragedy in the USA up to 1900). Search results may be returned in either a summary report format, or as detailed individual records with/without references to bibliographical and otherwise publicly accessible sources (websites, archives, etc).
Publications:
Agamemnon in Performance, 458 BC-2004 AD edited by Fiona Macintosh, Pantelis Michelakis, Edith Hall, and Oliver Taplin (Oxford University Press, December 2005)
Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre, 1660-1914, by Edith Hall and Fiona Macintosh (Oxford University Press, July 2005)
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium, edited by Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh, and Amanda Wrigley (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Medea in Performance, 1500-2000, edited by Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh, and Oliver Taplin (Oxford: Legenda, 2000)
*** Please note that listed here are only the books which have issued directly from the project. Please consult http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/publications.htm for a fuller list of chapters and journal articles published by the research staff of the project. ***
Greek Tragedy and the British Theatre, 1660-1914, by Edith Hall and Fiona Macintosh (Oxford University Press, July 2005)
Dionysus Since 69: Greek Tragedy at the Dawn of the Third Millennium, edited by Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh, and Amanda Wrigley (Oxford University Press, 2004)
Medea in Performance, 1500-2000, edited by Edith Hall, Fiona Macintosh, and Oliver Taplin (Oxford: Legenda, 2000)
*** Please note that listed here are only the books which have issued directly from the project. Please consult http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/publications.htm for a fuller list of chapters and journal articles published by the research staff of the project. ***
Project staff and expertise:
| Principal staff member: | Dr Fiona Macintosh; Dr Pantelis Michelakis; Professor Oliver Taplin; Professor Edith Hall; Ms Amanda Wrigley; Mr Peter Brown |
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| Other staff: | Computing officer(s) / Technical supporter(s), PhD student(s), Postdoctoral researcher(s) / Research assistant(s) |
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| Author(s) of record | Amanda Wrigley |
| Title | History of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama |
| Record created | 2005-11-07 |
| Record updated | 2011-05-11 16:30 |
| URL of record | http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2173 |
| Citation of record | Amanda Wrigley: History of Performances of Greek and Roman Drama. <http://www.arts-humanities.net/node/2173> created: 2005-11-07, last updated 2011-05-11 16:30 |