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Iphigenia at Aulis
Selected Production Reviews 
"[Iphigenia] remains, like Euripides, intensely tragic...It deserves a place in the modern repertoire [and]...recreates for the modern audience that irresistible, unbearable assault on the emotions that was Euripides' special skill and that made him, in his own time, a poet greatly loved, but also feared."
Source: Knox, Bernard Knox. Review of Iphigenia at Aulis, New York Review of Books, 9 February 1978: 18-19.
Benson, Gerard. "A House United." New
Statesmen & Society 24 July 1992: 31-33. (available in bound
periodical collection)
Review of Le Theatre du Soleil
production
Clancy, Luke. "Iphigenia in Aulis." The
London Times 30 March 2001. (full-text is available
from Lexis Nexis Academic)
Review of Abbey Theatre production
Doudai, Naomi. "Greek and Georgian Gimmickry."
The Jerusalem Post 5 Jan. 1990: Features sec. (full-text is available
from Lexis Nexis Academic)
Review of Habimah National
Theatre production in Tel Aviv
Gates, Anita. "Euripides' Philosophy survives, but
a Princess Doesn't." New York Times 15 Dec. 2001: A28. (full-text is available
from Lexis Nexis Academic)
Review of the Pearl Theater Company
production
Hurwitt, Robert. "A chilling 'Iphigena' from
Shotgun; Greek 'heroes' bitterly dissected." The San Francisco Chronicle
28 June 2001 final ed.: D2. (full-text is available
from Lexis Nexis Academic)
Review of a production by the Shotgun
Players
Kelly, Kevin. "Iphigenia: Ernest but uneven." The Boston Globe 7 March 1991
city ed.: 77. (full-text is available
from Lexis Nexis Academic)
Review of Boston
University Theatre production
Marks, Peter. "So, Iphigenia, How's the
Family?" The New York Times 26 Jan. 1999 final ed.: E5.
(full-text is available
from Lexis Nexis Academic)
Review
of Theater for A New Audience production
Richards, David. "Sunday View; A Trilogy for
Clyemnestra, the Feminist." 9 Aug. 1992 The New York Times final
ed.: B5. (full-text is available
from Lexis Nexis Academic)
Review of Guthrie
Theater production
Selected Critical
Commentary
"The Iphigenia in Aulis and the Phoenissae are the most important examples of sacrificial actions involving a youth's voluntary self-sacrifice for a society in crisis. Euripides apparently favored this folktale plot, which is not found in the extant works of other Greek dramatists to exploit its potential ironies. Here the ritual experience of women and children, who are excluded from political participation, offers an apparent cure for the political crises produced by men and forges unexpected links between public and private worlds."
Source: Foley, Helene P. "Euripides" Classical and Medieval Criticism, vol. 23, pp. 221-22. 1998.
Bryant-Bertail, Sarah. "Gender, Empire and Body Politic as Mise en Scene: Mnouchkine's Les Atrides." Theatre Journal Mar. 1994: 1-30 (available in bound periodical collection)
Gunther, Hans-Christian. "Some Remarks on Textual Problems in Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis." Historical Philology: Greek, Latin, and Romance. Amsterdam: Benjamins, 1992. (available through Orbis Cascade)
Kirschner, S. "The Myth of the Sacrifice of the Daughter: Implications for Family-Owned Businesses." American Journal of Family Therapy Spring 1992: 13-25. (full-text is available from Academic Search Premier)
Purkiss, Diane. "Blood, Sacrifice, Marriage: Why Iphigenia and Mariam Have to Die." Women's Writing, 1999. 27-45. (available from Orbis Cascade)
Sorum, Christina Elliott. "Myth, Choice, and Meaning in Euripides' Iphigenia at Aulis." The American Journal of Philology, Winter 1992: 527-542. (full-text is available from JSTOR)
Suther, Judith D. "Racine's Iphigenia in English Dress." Selecta: Journal of the Pacific Northwest Council on Foreign Languages, 1981: 28-31. (request on interlibrary loan)
Teevan, Colin. "A Barbarian Activity: The Process of Translation of Euripides' The Iphigenia in Aulis." Stages of Translation Ed. David Johnston. Bath: Absolute, 1996. 95-107. (available from Orbis Cascade)
Wallin, Liina Mets. "Schiller's Iphigenia in Aulis." Rackham Literary Studies, 1972: 103-117. (request through interlibrary loan)
Walsh, George B. "Iphigenia in Aulis: Third Stasimon." Classical Philology, Oct. 1974: 241-248. (full-text is available from JSTOR)
Weidhorn, Manfred. "Motive Hunting." Midwest Quarterly Spring 1999: 260-274. (full-text is available from Academic Search Premier)
Willink, C.W. "The Prologue of Iphigenia in Aulis." The Classical Quarterly, Nov. 1971: 343-364. (full-text is available from JSTOR)
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