All Scholars

Comparative Literature and the Classics: a Study Guide, commissioned and published by the American Philological Association, 1977; ​​​​​​​“Of Languages and Their Importance,” Northern California Foreign Language Newsletter 25 (1977) 99. “Ovid True and False in Renaissance Poetry,” Pacific Coast Philology 13 (1978) 60-70; “You Can Always Count on a Murderer for a Fancy Prose Style,” Pacific Coast Philology 17 (1983) 100-7; “Language and Literature: Allies not Enemies,” Association of Departments of Foreign Languages Bulletin 15.3 (1984) 8-11; ​“Baucis and Philemon: Paradigm or Paradox?” Helios 11 (1984) 117-31; “Introduction” to special issue of Helios “Contemporary Interpretations of Ovid” 12 (1985) 3-7; “This Day We Read Further: Feminist Interpretation and the Study of Literature,” Pacific Coast Philology22 (1987) 7-14; “non sine caede: Abortion Politics and Poetics in Ovid’s Amores,” Helios 16 (1989) 183-206; “Reading ‘Reality’,” Helios, 17 (1990) 171-4; “An American Tragedy: Chinatown,” in Classica and Cinema, ed. Martin Winkler (Lewisburg, PA: Bucknell U. Press, 1991) 209-31; ; rev. in Classical Myth and Culture in Cinema, ed. Martin M. Winkler (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2000) 148-71; “‘Genuine Corinthian Bronze’: the ‘Western canon’ in the age of global culture,” Macalester International 3 (1996) 87-114. “Introduction” to “Crossing the Ancient Stage,” Didaskalia 3.2 (1997); “Reading as a Man: Performance and Gender in Roman Elegy,” Helios 25 (1998) 79-95; “Staging Ancient Drama: the Difference Women Make,” SyllClass 10 (1999) 22-42; “Introduction” to special issue, “Approaches to Theatrical Performance in the Ancient Mediterranean,” Helios 27:2 (2000)): 99-103;​ “‘Apollo Knows I Have No Children:’ Scholarship, Motherhood, Theater,” in special issue of Arethusa, “The Personal Voice in Classical Scholarship,” ed. Judith P. Hallett and Thomas Van Nortwick (2001) 153-71; “Introduction” and “From Thesmophoriazousai to The Julie Thesmo Show,” AJP 123:3 (2002): 319-28, 465-99; “The Palace of Fine Arts: Classical Architecture in San Francisco,” Amphora2:2 (2003) 1-3; “The Triumph of Cupid: Marlowe’s Dido Queen of Carthage,” AJP 126:4 (2005) 613-22;  “Introduction” to special issue “Ancient Mediterranean Women in Modern Mass Media,” with Ruby Blondell, Helios 32:2 (2005): 111-126; “The Ancient Mediterranean Onstage in Chicago,” Amphora 6:2 (2007) 4-5; “Sondheim Floats Frogs.” Aristophanes in Performance 421 BC-AD 2007: Peace, Birds, and Frogs, ed. Edith Hall and Amanda Wrigley (Oxford: Oxford U. Press, 2007) 209-30; “Revising ‘Authenticity’ in Staging Ancient Mediterranean Drama,” in Theorising Performance Reception: Greek Drama, Cultural History and Critical Practice, ed. Edith Hall and Stephen Harrop (London: Duckworth, 2010) 153-70; “The Festival of Dionysos: A Community Theatre,” in Close Relations: Spaces of Greek and Roman Theatre, ed. Paul Monaghan and Jane Montgomery Griffiths (Newcastle upon Tyne: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2016): 106-32.

Translations and Versions

2015​ The Congressladies, a version of Aristophanes’ Ecclesiazousai (2015);
2011 ​Orestes Terrorist, a version of Euripides’ Orestes (2011);
2008 ​Helen of Egypt, a version of Euripides’ Helen (2008);
2006​ The Buzzzz!!!!, a version of Aristophanes’ Wasps (2006);
2003​ The Conversion of Thais, a translation of Hrotsvit of Gandersheim’s play (2003);
2000 ​The Julie Thesmo Show, a version of Aristophanes’ Women at the Thesmophoria (2000)
1998 ​Prometheus 1.1, a music drama based on Aeschylus’ Prometheus Bound (1998)
1998 ​​Myrrha, a dramatization from Ovid, Metamorphoses 10 (1998);
1996 ​Eye on Apollo, a version of Euripides’ Ion (1996);
1995 ​Effie and the Barbarians, a version of Euripides’ Iphigenia among the Taurians (1995);
1992 ​The Furies, a version of Aeschylus’ Eumenides (1992)
1990​ Electra, a translation of Euripides’ Electra (1990)
1989 The Frogs, a version of Aristophanes’ Frogs, with Audrey Stanley (1989)
1988​ Alcestis, a translation of Euripides’ Alcestis (1988);
1985​ Medea, a translation of Euripides’ Medea, published Quarterly West 40 (1995) 96-145, repr. in Types of Drama, ed. Sylvan Barnet (New York: Harper Collins, 1996) 99-122 and Women on the Edge: Four Plays by Euripides, ed. with Ruby Blondell, Nancy S. Rabinowitz, Bella Zweig (London: Routledge, 1999).