Boyde’s Classic Dramas
This is the archive of Patrick Boyde’s dramatic productions of the classics. Start from here and semi-stage your own performance of scenes from Homer, Sophocles, Virgil, Milton, Wordsworth, Byron or the Bible! There are productions of different lengths to suit all capacities.
Each production has:
- an actors’ script, most with English translation where the original language is not English;
- slides, which contain either the English text or translation;
- the original theatrical programme, where available; and
- a list of incidental music items.
- Achilles (Iliad)
- Aeneas I (Iliad)
- Aeneas II (Aeneid)
- Ajax (Sophocles)
- Anticlea (Odyssey)
- Apocalypse (New Testament)
- Borderers (Wordsworth)
- Calypso (Odyssey)
- Circe (Odyssey)
- Comus (Milton)
- Conquering Hero (Psalm 24)
- Dante’s Virgil (Inferno and Purgatory)
- Gilgamesh
- Golden Galaxy (Romantic monologues)
- Horace (Corneille)
- Job (from the Greek bible)
- Manfred (Byron)
- Mark’s Gospel (from the Greek bible)
- Maud (Tennyson)
- Nausicaa (Odyssey)
- Noble Kinsmen from Lycia (Homer)
- Noble Kinsmen from Thebes (Shakespeare)
- Oedipus at Colonus (Sophocles)
- Pan Tadeusz (Mickiewicz)
- Paradise Regained (Milton)
- Penelope (Odyssey)
- Persephone (Homeric Hymn)
- Prometheus Bound (Aeschylus)
- Prometheus Unbound (Shelley)
- Pulchérie (Corneille)
- Sampson Nazaraios (Judges 13–16)
- Samson Agonistes (Milton)
- Wine-Dark Sea (Greek poetry)