Books
Euripides
Our Contemporary (2009). London: Methuen Drama (A & C Black); Los Angeles: University of California Press.
The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre (ed.
with Marianne McDonald, 2007). Introduction, pp 1-12; Chapter 15 'Commodity: Asking the Wrong Questions',
pp. 286-302. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press.
Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English (2006, reprint 2007, digital pb. 2009). Cambridge: Cambridge University
Press.
Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy
(ed. with M. McDonald, 2002). Opening chapter 'Hit or Myth: the Greeks and Irish Drama', pp. 3-34. London: Methuen
Drama.
Menander and the Making of Comedy (with Peter D.
Arnott, 1996). Westport: Greenwood.
Living Greek Theatre: A
Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production (1987). Westport: Greenwood; trans into Greek by Katarina
Arvaniti and Vicky Mandeli (2007) as To Archaio Elleniko Theatro epi Skene. Athens:
Hellenika Grammata.
The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy Reviewed
(1984). London: Methuen; 2nd ed (1996), Amsterdam: Harwood.
Craig
on Theatre (ed. 1983, 1991, 1999). London: Methuen Drama.
Greek
Theatre Practice. Westport: Greenwood (1980); pb. rev.(1991), London: Methuen Drama.
Published Translations
For enquiries relating to performance rights of published translations contact jmichaelwalton@gmail.com.
Aeschylus Oresteia (with M. McDonald,
2007). London: Nick Hern Books.
Sophocles Electra (with
M. McDonald, 2004). London: Nick Hern Books.
Euripides Electra
(with M. McDonald, 2004). London: Nick Hern Books.
Euripides Andromache
(with M. McDonald, 2001). London: Nick Hern Books.
Euripides Medea:
a student edition (2002, 2006). London: Methuen Drama.
Four Roman
Comedies (ed. and trans. Terence Brothers, 2003). London: Methuen Drama.
Six Greek Tragedies, (jnt. ed. and 2 translations, Sophocles Women of Trachis and Euripides Bacchae, 2002).
London: Methuen Drama.
Six Greek
Comedies (ed. and 3 translations, Euripides Cyclops and Alkestis, Menander The Woman from Samos, 2002) London:
Methuen Drama.
Methuen Classical Greek Plays
in 13 volumes (1988-2001). Editor, introductions and sometime translator of:
Sophocles. Women of Trachis
Euripides. Alcestis, Bacchae, Cyclops, Medea, Rhesus
Menander. The Malcontent, The Woman from Samos
London:
Methuen Drama 1988-2001.
Aeschylus (2 volumes)
Sophocles (2 volumes)
Euripides (6 volumes)
Aristophanes (2/3 volumes)
Menander (part-volume)
Chapters in Books
'E.W.G.
and E.G.C.: Father and Son' in K. Cockin (ed.), Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence,
London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011, pp. 81-91.
'A Playing Tradition', 'Actors,
Chorus and Mask', 'Social and Domestic Drama', in M. L. Hart The Art of Ancient
Greek Theater, Los Angeles: The J. Paul Getty Museum, 2010, pp. 7-13, 33-41, 128-35.
'Where
is the Spine?' in D. Stuttard (ed.) Looking at Lysistrata, Bristol: Bristol Classical
Press, 2010, pp. 11-19.
' "An Agreeable Innovation": Play and Translation'
in A. Lianeri and V.D. Zajko (eds.), Translation and the Classic, Oxford: Oxford University
Press, 2008, pp. 189-206.
' "Enough Give In It": Translating the Classical Play' in
Hardwick, L and C. Stray ((eds.), The Blackwell Companion to Classical Receptions,
Oxford: Blackwell, 2008, pp. 153-67.
'Time-Travelling in Theatre History' in Ioannides, G., Stephanos:
Essays for Walter Puchner, Athens: University of Athens, 2007, pp.209-216.
' "Good Manners, Decorum and the Public Peace": Greek Drama and the Censor' in Billiani
(F. (ed.), Modes of Censorship and Translation: National Contexts and Diverse Media,
Manchester: St Jerome Press, 2007, pp. 143-66.
'Translation or Transubstantiation' in
Macintosh, F., P. Michelakis, E. Hall and O. Taplin (eds.), Agamemnon in Performance 458
BC to AD 2000, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2005, pp. 189-206.
'Outside Looking
In: Subversive Choruses in Greek Tragedy' in Dillon, J. and S. Wilmer (eds.), Rebel Women:
Staging Ancient Greek Drama Today, London: Methuen Drama, 2005, pp. 193-214.
'Craig,
la quête de l’impossible synthèse' in Banu, Georges (ed.), Les Cités
du Théâtre D’Art de Stanislavski à Strehler, Paris: éditions Théâtrales,
2000, pp. 230-41.
' "A Divinity which Shapes our Ends": Greek Comedy in a Secular
Age', in Levy, S. (ed.), Theatre and Holy Script, Brighton: Sussex Academic Press,
1999, pp. 140-8.
'Essence or Perception: Greek Drama for a New Century', in Patsalidis,
S. and E. Sakellaridou (eds.), (Dis)Placing Classical Greek Theatre, Thessaloniki:
University Studio Press, 1999, pp. 329-39.
Foreword to Olga Taxidou, The
Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig, Amsterdam: Harwood Academic, 1998, pp. XIII-XV.
Articles in journals
'How Many Suppliants?',
Tenth International Symposium on Ancient Greek Drama, Nicosia:
Cyprus Centre of the I.T.I., 2010, pp. 289-300. Also in Greek ibid pp.59-71.
'Theobald
and Lintott: A Footnote on Early Translations of Greek Tragedy', Arion Third Series,
16.3 Winter 2009, 103-110.
'Vacuum or Agenda: The Translator’s Dilemma',
Classical and Modern Literature, 27, 1, Spring 2007 (pub. 2008), pp. 93-120.
'The Word and the Take: Writing for the Mask', Didaskalia website, Vol.
7 issue 1, Winter 2007.
'Dionysus: The Victorian Outcast', Victorian Review, 34, 2, Fall 2008, pp. 185-99.
'Transfusion or Transgression'. Symposia Proceedings of the X and XI International Meetings on Ancient Greek Drama. Athens:
The European Cultural Centre of Delphi, 2008, pp. 195-205.
'Deianira, the Poor Relation'. Symposia Proceedings of the XII International Meetings on Ancient Greek Drama. Athens: The European Cultural
Centre of Delphi, 2008, pp. 357-366.
'Mushri, and the First English Oresteia', Arion, Fall, 14.2, 2006, pp. 49-67.
'The Line or the Gag: Translating Classical Comedy',
Manchester University Centre for Translation and
Intercultural Studies: Occasional Papers, Vol. 3, 2006, pp. 29-46.
'Aristophanes and
the Theatre of Burlesque', The Comparative Drama Conference Series Text and Presentation
2005, 2006, pp. 3-14.
'Comfortable Up Here: Comfortable Down There' (Anetos panta. opos
edo ki ekai), Eighth International Symposium on Greek Drama, Nicosia: 2005, pp. 214-26
and 26-38.
‘Night Scenes: Sight and Blindness in Greek Drama’ (Nukterines Skenes: Orase
kai Tuphlose sto Elleniko Drama), Sixth International Symposium on Greek Drama,
Nicosia: 2002, 230-5 and 64-71.
'A Response to Helene Foley’, Illinois
Classical Studies, Vol XXVI, 2001, pp. 77-80.
'Playing in the Dark: Masks and Euripides'
Rhesos, Helios, Vol 27, no. 2, (Fall 2000), pp. 137-147.
'Translation
for Translocation' (Metaphrase gia Metatopise), Fifth International Symposium on Greek
Drama, Nicosia: 1999, pp. 256-62 and 25-32.
'Realising Menander: Get-in at the
Getty', Drama: Beiträge zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption, Band 5, 1997,
pp. 171-191.
'Sophocles’ Electra: Actors in Space', Drama:
Beiträge zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption, Band 4, 1996, pp. 41-48.
'Style
and Music in Suddenly Last Summer', Studies in Theatre Production, No. 1 (1990):
pp. 5-21.
'Chinese Street Theatre', Asian Theatre Bulletin in Theatre News, Vol. IX.8 (1977): pp. 12-14.
'Financial Arrangements for the Athenian Dramatic
Festivals', Theatre Research International, Vol I.2, 1977, pp. 79-86.
'An Acting Tradition from Homer to Aeschylus', Theatre Research (Recherches Théâtrales), Vol. XII.1, 1972, pp. 7-28.
Contributor to
The
Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance.
The International Dictionary of Theatre.
The International Dictionary
of Opera.
The Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought.
The World Encyclopaedia of Dance.
The Oxford Book of Plays (Classical Editor).
Book
Reviews for
Classical Review
Drama: Beiträge zum antiken Drama und seiner Rezeption
Journal of Hellenic
Studies
Theatre Notebook
Theatre Quarterly
Theatre Research
Theatre Research International
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