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J. Michael Walton, MA 1962

J Michael Walton, Emeritus Professor of Drama, University of Hull, has published a number of works, including:

Books

  • The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy and Comedy Reviewed. London: Methuen Drama, 2015;
  • new and revised edition of The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy Reviewed, London: Methuen, 1984; 2nd ed.
  • Amsterdam: Harwood, 1996.
  • Huddled Together: 50 Years of Hull University Drama Department (ed.). Hull: Barbican Press, 2013.
  • Euripides Our Contemporary.
  • London: Methuen Drama (A&C Black); Los Angeles: Univ. of Cal. Press, 2009.
  • The Cambridge Companion to Greek and Roman Theatre (ed. with Marianne McDonald). Introduction, pp 1-12. Chapter 15 ‘Commodity: Asking the Wrong Questions’, pp. 286-302.
  • Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2007.
  • Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2006, 2007, 2009.
  • Amid Our Troubles: Irish Versions of Greek Tragedy (ed. with McDonald).
  • Opening chapter ‘Hit or Myth: the Greeks and Irish Drama’, pp. 3-34.
  • London: Methuen Drama, 2002.
  • Menander and the Making of Comedy (with Peter Arnott).
  • Westport: Greenwood, 1996.
  • Living Greek Theatre: A Handbook of Classical Performance and Modern Production.
  • Westport: Greenwood, 1987. Trans into Greek as To Archaio Elleniko Theatro epi Skene.
  • Athens: Hellenika Grammata, 2007.
  • Craig on Theatre (ed.).  London: Methuen, 1983, 1991, 1999.
  • Greek Theatre Practice.Westport: Greenwood 1980. Rev. ed.  London: Methuen Drama, 1991.
  • Published Translations Aeschylus Oresteia (with McDonald),  London: Nick Hern Books, 2007.
  • Euripides Electra (with McDonald), London: Hern, 2004.
  • Sophocles Electra (with McDonald), London: Hern 2004.
  • Euripides Andromache (with McDonald), London: Hern, 2001.
  • Euripides Medea: a student edition, London: Methuen, 2002, 2006.
  • Four Roman Comedies (ed. and trans. Terence Brothers), London: Methuen, 2003.
  • Six Greek Tragedies, (jnt. ed. and 2 translations, Sophocles Women of Trachis and Euripides Bacchae), London: Methuen, 2002.
  • Six Greek Comedies (ed. and 3 translations, Euripides Cyclops and Alkestis, Menander The Woman from Samos), London: Methuen, 2002.
  • Methuen Classical Greek Plays in 13 volumes. Editor, writer of introductions and sometime translator.
  • London: Methuen, 1988-2001: Aeschylus (2 volumes) Sophocles (2 volumes) Euripides (6 volumes) Aristophanes (2/3 volumes) Menander (part-volume)

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