Research Guides: CSTS/COML 212: Refashioning the Classics: Dramatization and Illustration (HC): Literature

Reference Works

Literature Resource Center
Provides access to biographies, bibliographies, and critical analyses of authors from every age and literary discipline. Can be used to identify themes within an author's works.

Contemporary Literary Criticism
Provides detailed profiles of novelists, playwrights, and other writers, and includes excerpts from published criticism of their works.

Studies of Classical Influences on Literature

Classical Mythology in English Literature by Geoffrey Miles (Editor)
Publication Date: 1999-07-26
Beginning with an introduction to the Greco-Roman gods and heroes, the book then focuses on three stories: * Orpheus, the great musician and his quest to free his wife Eurydice from death * Venus and Adonis, the love goddess and the beautiful youth she loved * Pygmalion, the master sculptor who fell in love with his creation. Each section begins with classical sources and ends with contemporary versions, showing how the myths have been used or appropriated.
Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds by Lorna Hardwick (Editor); Carol Gillespie (Editor)
Publication Date: 2007-11-24
Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for creating cultural identities that blend the old and the new. Nobel prize-winners such as Derek Walcott and Seamus Heaney have rewritten classical material in their own cultural idioms. These developments are explored in this collection of essays by international scholars.
The Classics in the American Theater of the 1960s and Early 1970s by Marianthe Colakis
ISBN: 0819189723
Publication Date: 1993-03-16
This book traces modern versions and adaptations of Greek tragedies in the recent past. The 1960s were interested the recreation of the power in Greek tragedy by re-introducing its supposed ritual origins. Plays discussed include: The Prodigal by Jack Richardson, Prometheus Bound by Robert Lowell, Heracles by Archibald MacLeish, Dionysus in '69 by The Performance Group, Antigone by The Living Theatre, and The Orphan by David Rabe.