Web Resources

Images of modern productions of ancient Greek plays
Images of medieval performance
Images of Italian Renaissance Theater

Theater history timeline

Guide to WWW Theater Sites on the Barnard Library Homepage http://www.barnard.edu/library/websubj/theater.htm

 
Links to images and information about the Greek Theater

http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/image?arch=1990.30.0030&type=architecture
(Slide show of ancient theater sites)

http://didaskalia.berkeley.edu/stagecraft/greek.html

("Introduction to Greek stagecraft" page with lots of good images and information)

http://phd.evansville.edu/tools/greece.htm
(Map of Ancient Greece)

http://library.thinkquest.org/10805/timeframe-g.html
(Greek timeline)

Links to images from modern productions of Aeschylus' The Oresteia
http://www.fas.harvard.edu/~art/oresteia.html
(Images from a 1994 production of The Oresteia at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA.)

Medieval Drama links

Images of medieval perfomance

http://metalab.unc.edu/louvre/rh/
(Paris Webmuseum exhibit of images from "Les très riches heures du Duc de Berry," a beautifully preserved illuminated medieval Book of Hours.)

http://www.engl.duq.edu/servus/M_R_Players/joseph.html
(Duquesne University Renaissance and Medieval Players)

http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~medieval/www/pls
(Medieval and Renaissance Players of Toronto)

 Link to a virtual reality tour of the reconstructed Globe Theater in London
http://shakespeares-globe.org/virtual-pictures/

Links to Online Texts