Books
Translating Classical Plays: Collected Papers (2016), London: Routledge.
The
Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy Reviewed (1984). London: Methuen; 2nd ed. (1996), Amsterdam: Harwood;
3rd
ed. as The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy and Comedy Reviewed (2015), London:
Routledge.
Huddled Together: 50 Years of Hull University Drama
Department. (ed. 2013). Hull: Barbican Press. http://issuu.com/dramahulluni/docs/huddled_together_2014e-print?e=0
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; 3rd ed. as The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy
and Comedy Reviewed (2015), London: Routledge.
Craig on Theatre (ed. 1983, 1991, 1999). London: Methuen Drama.
Greek
Theatre Practice. Westport: Greenwood (1980); pb. rev.(1991), London: Methuen Drama.
Radio Play
Frogspawn, a play for Radio (published
in Arion Vol. XXII, no. 3, Winter 2015)
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
'Prometheus Bound in Translation: "The True Promethean Fire"
' in Constantinidis, Stratos E. (ed.), The Reception of Aeschylus' Plays
Through Shifting Models and Frontiers, Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2016,
pp. 80-106.
'Business
as Usual: Plautus' Menaechmi in English Translation' in Olson, S. Douglas (ed.), Ancient Comedy and Reception:
Essays in Honor of Jeffrey Henderson, Berlin and Boston: de Gruyter, 2014, pp. 1040-61.
'Men
As They Ought To Be: Sophocles in Translation' in Markantonatos, A.(ed.), Brill's Companion to Sophocles,
Leiden and Boston: Brill, 2012, pp. 619-39.
'E.W.G. and E.G.C.: Father and Son' in Cockin, K. (ed.), Ellen Terry, Spheres of Influence, London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011, pp. 81-91.
'Crisis, What Crisis?': Drama and
Theatre Studies in British Universities, in Tabaki, A. and W. Puchner (eds.) Theatre and
Theatre Studies in the 21st Century, Proceedings of the First International Conference in Athens, 2005. Athens: Ergo,
2010, pp. 55-65.
'A Playing Tradition', 'Actors, Chorus and Mask', 'Social and Domestic Drama', in Hart, M.
L. 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 Stuttard, D. (ed.) Looking at Lysistrata, Bristol: Bristol Classical Press, 2010, pp. 11-19.
' "An Agreeable Innovation":
Play and Translation' in Lianeri, A. and V.D. Zajko (eds.), Translation and the
Classic, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2008, pp. 261-77.
' "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 Vivilakis, I. (ed), Stephanos: Tribute to 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,
G. (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 Taxidou, O, The Mask: A Periodical Performance by Edward Gordon Craig, Amsterdam:
Harwood Academic, 1998, pp. XIII-XV.
Articles in journals
"Craig
and the Greeks" , Theatre Arts Journal, Vol. 1, No. 1, 2015, pp. 23-35.
'The Translator's Invisibility: Handling Irony', GRAMMA, Vol. 22 (1), 2014 (pub. 2015), pp.
143-58.
'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, pp.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
Encyclopedia of Ancient Greek Language and Linguistics (Brill)
The Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy (Wiley-Blackwell)
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Theatre and Performance (OUP)
The International
Dictionary of Theatre Part 1: Plays (St James Press)
The International Dictionary
of Theatre Part II: Playwrights (St James Press)
The International Dictionary
of Opera
The
Fontana Biographical Companion to Modern Thought
The World Encyclopaedia of Dance
The Oxford Book of Plays (Classical Editor)
Reviews
'Last Call for the Playwrights?' Jan Kott,
The Eating of the Gods: an Interpretation of Greek Tragedy; Euripides, Medea, a New Version by Ben Power,
Arion, Third series, 23.1 Spring/Summer 2015, pp. 155-67.
The Arts Council of England. 88 production reviews for the Revenue and Project Panels (1984-2001)
Book reviews for:
GRAMMA
New Theatre Quarterly
The Higher
The Classical Review
The Journal of Hellenic Studies
Theatre Research International
Theatre Notebook
