Theatre: Greek/Roman

A Research Guide for Theatre from West Chester University Libraries

Streaming video

The following videos are productions of Greek drama or discuss it, with some images, and may give you ideas for costumes.

Medea
"Freely adapted from the Medea of Euripides by Robinson Jeffers." From Theatre in Video
Medea
Same Kennedy Center production as above, available through Films on Demand. Zoe Caldwell, Medea.
Greek Drama: From Ritual to Theater
Staging Classical Tragedy
Focuses on the plays of Aeschylus
Three Greek plays
Excerpts from Andrei Serban's productions of Medea and Electra
Women in classical Greek drama

eBooks

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Draping period costumes: classical Greek to Victorian
Sharon Sobel.
Greek and Roman dress from A to Z
Liza Cleland, Glenys Davies and Lloyd Llewellyn-Jones
Roman dress and the fabrics of Roman culture
Jonathan Edmondson and Alison Keith, editors
Women and the Roman City in the Latin West
Emily Hemelrijk, Greg Woolf, editors
A companion to women in the ancient world
Sharon L. James and Sheila Dillon, editors

Books in print

Ancient Greek, Roman and Byzantine costume and decoration by Mary G. Houston
391.0093 H843 1947
Costume in Greek classic drama by Iris Brooke
792.026 B872
The Greenwood encyclopedia of clothing through world history. Volume 1
Ref 391.009 G816 v. 1
Covers Prehistoric, Egyptian, Persian, Greek, Etruscan and Roman, Byzantine, and Medieval clothing.

Websites

Ancient Greek female costume
The history of costume
By Braun & Schneider; 1st page covers through Ancient Rome.
Ancient Greece
From the British Museum
The Beazley Archive, University of Oxford
Kelsey Museum of Archaeology
Some textiles, human images on coins, pottery
Theater in Ancient Greece
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art
Ancient Greece, 1000 B.C.-1 A.D.
From the Metropolitan Museum of Art
The Art of Ancient Greek Theater
From the J. Paul Getty Museum
An illustration of the Egyptian, Grecian, and Roman costume : in forty outlines with descriptions, selected, drawn & engraved
Thomas Baxter
Digitized book through the Hathi Trust
Chapters on Greek Dress
Maria Millington Lathbury Evans
Digitized book through the Hathi Trust
Ancient Greek Dress
From Walters Art Gallery, Baltimore
Digitized book through the Hathi Trust
Greek dress
E. B. Abrahams
Digitized book through the Hathi Trust

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