Books that cover Greek theatre competitions, with sources?

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.

A good place to start would be "The Dramatic Festivals Of Athens, Arthur W. Pickard-Cambridge Clarendon Press, 1989_Rev. 2. ed.

This has plenty of details about the various festivals held at Athens. I would absorb that before trying to find out about other locations. It seems to be still the most quoted text in bibliographies. There may be something more modern but I haven’t come accross it.

As far as I recall most of our knowledge about the poets who competed comes from lists in inscriptions.

There are plenty of quotations in Pickard-Cambridge mostly untranslated as far as i remember. Its a book for serious study but excellent.

Good Luck

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A good sourcebook with most of the key sources in translation is Csapo and Slater’s The Context of Ancient Drama. The Context Of Ancient Drama : Eric Csapo and William Slater : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

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