Oliver Taplin - Selected Publications

Selected Publications

• The Stagecraft of Aeschylus: the Dramatic Use of Exits and Entrances in Greek Tragedy, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1977.
• Greek Tragedy in Action, Oxford University Press, Oxford, 1978 (2nd Edition 2003).
• Comic Angels: and Other Approaches to Greek Drama Through Vase-Paintings, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1993.
• 'Opening Performance: Closing Texts?', Essays in Criticism, 45, 93–120, 1995.
• 'The Artistic Record'. In P.E. Easterling (ed.), The Cambridge Companion to Greek Tragedy, Cambridge, 69–90, 1997.
• 'Spreading the word through performance'. In S. Goldhill and R. Osborne (eds.), Performance Culture and Athenian Democracy, Cambridge, 33–57, 1999.
• (editor) Literature in the Greek and Roman Worlds. A New Perspective, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 2000.
• His new book, Pots and Plays. Interactions between Tragedy and Greek Vase-painting of the Fourth Century BC is forthcoming from Getty Museum Publications, Los Angeles.
• Tragic life-journeys and real-life journeys: the place where three ways meet, Inaugural William Ritchie Memorial Lecture, University of Sydney, 2008. (podcast of lecture)