Drama
Next offered in 1996
A S McDevitt
8 points * 3 hours per week * Second semester * Clayton
This subject consists of a literary study of Greek and Roman tragic and comic drama by means of texts in translation.
Assessment
Written (3000 words): 60% * Examinations (3 hours): 40%
Prescribed texts
Aeschylus The Persians, Seven against Thebes, Suppliant Maidens in Aeschylus II, ed. Grene and Lattimore, Pocket Books or U Chicago P
Sophocles Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus the King in Sophocles I and II, ed. Grene and Lattimore, Pocket Books or U Chicago P
Euripides Medea, Hecuba, in Euripides I and II, ed. Grene and Lattimore, Pocket Books or U Chicago P
Aristophanes Acharnians, Lysistrata in Lysistrata and other plays tr. Dr Barrett and A H Sommerstien, Penguin.
Menander Dyskolos tr. C Moulton, Mentor
Plautus The Rope in The Rope and other plays tr. E F Watling, Penguin
Terence Phormio in The comedies tr. B Radice, Penguin