I’m looking for a book that goes into detail about:
a) Theatre competitions such as the festival of Dionysus in Athens, but also elsewhere.
b) History of which playwrights competed, who won, and when.
c) Other locations outside Athens that also hosted theatre productions.
d) Actually lists the textual sources of this historical information.
There are many books about Greek theatre, but most of them seem to focus on things such as plot details from mythology, or stage directions, or costumes, or what precisely the chorus was doing.
For myself, I’m really mostly interested in authorship and the competition, where the plays were performed, and how we know about this: Which authors recorded these details. I’m interested in hearing about hints of “obscure” authors and about the theatre in other locations, outside Athens, even if the evidence for this is scanty.
Can anyone reccomend a book that focuses on these details?
Thank you.