The last page of David Markson’s copy of The Complete Greek Drama: Volume One by Various (Ed. Whitney J. Oates & Eugene O’Neill, Jr.):
On which Markson has made a list of various books on the Greeks, and placed dashes and angular brackets next to some of them.
The list is as follows:
“- R. C. Flickinger: The Greek Theater + Its Drama
T. H. Gaster: Thespis
– W. C. Greene: Moira—Fate, Good + Evil in Greek Thought
> Moses Hadas: A History of Greek Literature
A. E. Haigh: The Tragic Drama of the Greeks
– P. W. Harsh: Handbook of Classical Drama
– Gilbert Highet: The Classical Tradition
H. D. F. Kitto: Greek Tragedy
A. M. G. Little: Myth + Society in Attic Drama
> G. Norwood: Greek Tragedy
G. Norwood: Greek Comedy
A. W. Pickard-Cambridge: Dithyramb Tragedy + Comedy
J. T. Allen: Stage Antiquities of the Greeks + Romans
– M. Bieber: The History of Greek + Roman Theater
A. W. Pickard-Cambridge: The Attic Theater
> H. W. Smyth: Aeschylean Tragedy
> Gilbert Murray: Aeschylus, The Creator of Tragedy
G. Thompson: Aeschylus and Athens
> C. M. Bowra: Sophoclean Tragedy
T. B. M. Webster: An Introduction to Sophocles
W. M. Bates: Sophocles, Poet + Dramatist
> G. M. A. Grube: The Drama of Euripides
> Gilbert Murray: Euripides and His Age
W. M. Bates: Euripides, Student of Human Nature
> Gilbert Murray: Aristophanes, A Study
Croiset: Aristophanes + the Political Parties at Athens
P. E. Legrand: The New Greek Comedy
A. Koerte: Hellenistic Poetry”
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As Markson told Joseph Tabbi in his interview in 1989:
“Some while back I must have spent, oh, two full years reading and rereading all the Greek and Latin stuff, not just the authors themselves but any number of commentaries, cultural histories, and so on.”
(I am fortunate enough to not only have his two volumes of The Complete Greek Drama, from which I’ve been taking scans this entire month, but also I own three of the books listed in the above list that were once Markson’s and are themselves marked up with some of his marginalia.)