Virginia Woolf and Performances of Ancient Greek Drama (1900-38)

Abstract

Between 1900 and 1938, Virginia Woolf (1881-1941) saw a number of productions of ancient Greek dramas in Cambridge and London, at a time when such plays were being increasingly produced in British schools and universities, and in the professional theatre, both in the original language and in translation. The present inventory is of performances she is known to have attended, though she may well have seen others not mentioned in her letters or diaries.