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.mw-parser-output .infobox-table th,body.skin--responsive .mw-parser-output .infobox-table td{padding-left:inherit;padding-right:inherit}}</style><table class="infobox vevent"><tbody><tr><th colspan="2" class="infobox-above summary" style="font-style: italic">The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus</th></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Written by</th><td class="infobox-data description"><a href="/wiki/Tony_Harrison" title="Tony Harrison">Tony Harrison</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Characters</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a>, <a href="/wiki/Silenus" title="Silenus">Silenus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Grenfell" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernard Grenfell">Bernard Grenfell</a>, <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Surridge_Hunt" title="Arthur Surridge Hunt">Arthur Hunt</a>, <a href="/wiki/Mount_Kyllini#Mythology" title="Mount Kyllini">Kyllene</a>, Satyrs</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Date premiered</th><td class="infobox-data">12 July 1988</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Place premiered</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Delphi" title="Delphi">Delphi</a>, Greece</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Original language</th><td class="infobox-data">English</td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Subject</th><td class="infobox-data"><i><a href="/wiki/Ichneutae" title="Ichneutae">Ichneutae</a></i></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Genre</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Satyr_play" title="Satyr play">Satyr play</a></td></tr><tr><th scope="row" class="infobox-label" style="white-space: nowrap">Setting</th><td class="infobox-data"><a href="/wiki/Oxyrhynchus" title="Oxyrhynchus">Oxyrhynchus</a>, <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a>, <a href="/wiki/Ancient_Greece" title="Ancient Greece">Ancient Greece</a></td></tr></tbody></table> <p><i><b>The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus</b></i> is a 1990 play by English poet and playwright <a href="/wiki/Tony_Harrison" title="Tony Harrison">Tony Harrison</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Burian2010_1-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Burian2010-1"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>1<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_2-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> It is partially based on <i><a href="/wiki/Ichneutae" title="Ichneutae">Ichneutae</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Satyr_play" title="Satyr play">satyr play</a> by the fifth-century BC <a href="/wiki/Classical_Athens" title="Classical Athens">Athenian</a> <a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_ancient_Greece" title="Theatre of ancient Greece">dramatist</a> <a href="/wiki/Sophocles" title="Sophocles">Sophocles</a>, which was found in fragments at the <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egyptian</a> city of <a href="/wiki/Oxyrhynchus" title="Oxyrhynchus">Oxyrhynchus</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-Banham_3-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Banham-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-France2000_4-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-France2000-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Baldick2008_5-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baldick2008-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In addition to its classical content, Harrison's play is also a dramatised account of the discovery of the <a href="/wiki/Papyrus" title="Papyrus">papyrus</a> fragments containing Sophocles' play by <a href="/wiki/Bernard_Grenfell" class="mw-redirect" title="Bernard Grenfell">Bernard Grenfell</a> and <a href="/wiki/Arthur_Surridge_Hunt" title="Arthur Surridge Hunt">Arthur Hunt</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-BrownSilverstone2008_6-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BrownSilverstone2008-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The play had a one-performance première on 12 July 1988 in the <a href="/wiki/Delphi#Stadium" title="Delphi">ancient stadium</a> of <a href="/wiki/Delphi" title="Delphi">Delphi</a>,<sup id="cite_ref-Hunter2010_7-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Hunter2010-7"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>7<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> <a href="/wiki/Greece" title="Greece">Greece</a> with a follow-up performance at the <a href="/wiki/Royal_National_Theatre" title="Royal National Theatre">Royal National Theatre</a> two years later on 27 March 1990.<sup id="cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ormand2012-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Brown2010_9-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Eurípides2003_10-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Eurípides2003-10"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>10<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-ObbinkRutherford2011_11-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-ObbinkRutherford2011-11"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>11<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> The 1988 premiere at Delphi starred <a href="/wiki/Jack_Shepherd_(actor)" title="Jack Shepherd (actor)">Jack Shepherd</a> as Grenfell, <a href="/wiki/Barrie_Rutter" title="Barrie Rutter">Barrie Rutter</a> as Hunt and <a href="/wiki/Juliet_Stevenson" title="Juliet Stevenson">Juliet Stevenson</a> in the role of the <a href="/wiki/Mount_Kyllini" title="Mount Kyllini">mountain</a> <a href="/wiki/Nymph" title="Nymph">nymph</a> Kyllene.<sup id="cite_ref-National_Theatre_12-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-National_Theatre-12"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>12<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> No filming was allowed during the 1988 performance.<sup id="cite_ref-Taplin1990_13-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Taplin1990-13"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>13<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> Before appearing on the stage in London the play also had a "homecoming" performance at <a href="/wiki/Salt%27s_Mill" class="mw-redirect" title="Salt's Mill">Salt's Mill</a>, a former textile mill, at <a href="/wiki/Saltaire" title="Saltaire">Saltaire</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bradford" title="Bradford">Bradford</a>. Additional performances were held at the Wharf Theatre, in Sydney, Australia in 1992 and the <a href="/wiki/West_Yorkshire_Playhouse" class="mw-redirect" title="West Yorkshire Playhouse">West Yorkshire Playhouse</a> in <a href="/wiki/Leeds" title="Leeds">Leeds</a> in 1998. In January 2017 after nearly 30 years since first opening in London it returned to the <a href="/wiki/Finborough_Theatre" title="Finborough Theatre">Finborough Theatre</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-APGRD_14-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-APGRD-14"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>14<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <meta property="mw:PageProp/toc" /> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Historical_background">Historical background</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Trackers_of_Oxyrhynchus&action=edit&section=1" title="Edit section: Historical background"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:P.Oxy._IX_1174_col._iv-v.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/P.Oxy._IX_1174_col._iv-v.jpg/220px-P.Oxy._IX_1174_col._iv-v.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="163" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/P.Oxy._IX_1174_col._iv-v.jpg/330px-P.Oxy._IX_1174_col._iv-v.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/5/50/P.Oxy._IX_1174_col._iv-v.jpg/440px-P.Oxy._IX_1174_col._iv-v.jpg 2x" data-file-width="2000" data-file-height="1479" /></a><figcaption>Fragment of the <i>Ichneutae</i> papyrus on which Harrison's play is based</figcaption></figure> <p>Harrison's play is partially based on the events surrounding the discovery of the ancient papyrus found at Oxyrhynchus containing fragments of <i><a href="/wiki/Ichneutae" title="Ichneutae">Ichneutae</a></i>, a <a href="/wiki/Satyr_play" title="Satyr play">satyr play</a> by the fifth-century <a href="/wiki/Classical_Athens" title="Classical Athens">Athenian</a> <a href="/wiki/Theatre_of_ancient_Greece" title="Theatre of ancient Greece">dramatist</a> <a href="/wiki/Sophocles" title="Sophocles">Sophocles</a>, which was found in fragments at <a href="/wiki/Oxyrhynchus" title="Oxyrhynchus">Oxyrhynchus</a>, an <a href="/wiki/Egypt" title="Egypt">Egyptian</a> city where an archaeological site was discovered considered one of the most important ever found. The papyrus fragments containing the ancient play were found by <a href="/wiki/Oxford_don" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxford don">Oxford dons</a> Grenfell and Hunt. Harrison then takes some of the events surrounding their discovery and weaves a play involving the two British archaeologists in a modern version of the classic play.<sup id="cite_ref-Banham_3-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Banham-3"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>3<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-France2000_4-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-France2000-4"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>4<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Baldick2008_5-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Baldick2008-5"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>5<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-BrownSilverstone2008_6-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BrownSilverstone2008-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Plot">Plot</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Trackers_of_Oxyrhynchus&action=edit&section=2" title="Edit section: Plot"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p>The play starts with the two archaeologists shown doing excavations in situ at Oxyrhynchus in 1907. While both are depicted in the play deeply involved with their work, <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a> intervenes and commands Grenfell, in rhyming verses, to find an ancient play where the God plays a prominent part:<sup id="cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ormand2012-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1244412712">.mw-parser-output .templatequote{overflow:hidden;margin:1em 0;padding:0 32px}.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{line-height:1.5em;text-align:left;margin-top:0}@media(min-width:500px){.mw-parser-output .templatequotecite{padding-left:1.6em}}</style><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>He heard Apollo yammering for scraps and tatters<br />of a lost play of Sophocles: <i>The Tracking Satyrs</i>.<br /> "Grenfell, Hunt!" he heard the voice abjure.<br />"Prevent Apollo's play becoming mere manure."<br />Night and day the voice went: "Grenfell, Bernard Pyne,<br />hunt for my papyrus. This order is divine!"</p></blockquote> <figure class="mw-default-size" typeof="mw:File/Thumb"><a href="/wiki/File:Grenfell-hunt-1896.jpg" class="mw-file-description"><img src="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b5/Grenfell-hunt-1896.jpg/220px-Grenfell-hunt-1896.jpg" decoding="async" width="220" height="156" class="mw-file-element" srcset="//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b5/Grenfell-hunt-1896.jpg/330px-Grenfell-hunt-1896.jpg 1.5x, //upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/b/b5/Grenfell-hunt-1896.jpg/440px-Grenfell-hunt-1896.jpg 2x" data-file-width="866" data-file-height="614" /></a><figcaption>Grenfell and Hunt on the site of the excavations. Harrison's play features them as central characters.</figcaption></figure> <p>The two dons are shown in the play to feverishly search for the fragments and they finally find them. Grenfell, in particular, is shown as possessed by Apollo. After their excavations, the <a href="/wiki/Oxyrhynchus_papyri" class="mw-redirect" title="Oxyrhynchus papyri">Oxyrhynchus papyri</a>, including those with the Sophoclean play, are packed in wooden crates and sent to <a href="/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford">Oxford</a> for further study. Upon arrival at Oxford, the crates open up and a satyr <a href="/wiki/Greek_chorus" title="Greek chorus">chorus</a> springs from inside, <a href="/wiki/Clogging" title="Clogging">clogging</a>.<sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_2-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ormand2012-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-15" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-15"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>15<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup><sup id="cite_ref-Banham1995_16-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Banham1995-16"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>16<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>A metamorphosis then happens. Grenfell becomes the Greek god <a href="/wiki/Apollo" title="Apollo">Apollo</a> while Hunt turns into <a href="/wiki/Silenus" title="Silenus">Silenus</a>, the leader of the satyrs. The characters then start following Sophocles' play and begin looking for Apollo's missing cattle. Apollo strikes a bargain with the satyrs according to which the satyrs will become rich and free if they find his cattle.<sup id="cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ormand2012-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The satyrs finally find the cattle only to discover that the cows are also keeping amongst them baby <a href="/wiki/Hermes" title="Hermes">Hermes</a> who although an infant has just invented the <a href="/wiki/Lyre" title="Lyre">lyre</a>. Apollo is happy now that his cattle have been found and keeps his end of the bargain by granting the satyrs the riches and freedom he had promised them. However the satyrs also want to keep the newly discovered lyre but Apollo rejects that idea telling them that satyrs do not deserve such a highly artistic instrument and advises them that they should instead concentrate on low-level art.<sup id="cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-4" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ormand2012-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>The satyrs are very unhappy and they become even more so since the gold bars that they received from Apollo have turned into <a href="/wiki/Gold_leaf" title="Gold leaf">gold leaf</a>-covered <a href="/wiki/Boombox" title="Boombox">boomboxes</a> blaring a music they cannot even dance to. Having lost their chance to get involved in "High Art" the satyrs rebel and 2500 years later they become <a href="/wiki/Hooligans" class="mw-redirect" title="Hooligans">hooligans</a> coming out of the crates and destroying the very papyrus to which they owe their existence in modern times.<sup id="cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-5" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ormand2012-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In the Delphi performance the satyrs destroy the backdrop papyrus screens of the play and are depicted playing a soccer match with a ball fashioned out of the <i>Ichneutae</i> papyrus.<sup id="cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-6" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ormand2012-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> In the National Theatre performance Silenus is shown destroying the physical papyrus screen which functions as the backdrop of the theatrical play and commenting that the papyrus "could be put to better use as <a href="/wiki/Bedding" title="Bedding">bedding</a> material for the homeless of London's <a href="/wiki/South_Bank" title="South Bank">South Bank</a>".<sup id="cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-7" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ormand2012-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Reception_and_analysis">Reception and analysis</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Trackers_of_Oxyrhynchus&action=edit&section=3" title="Edit section: Reception and analysis"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><a href="/wiki/Richard_Eyre" title="Richard Eyre">Richard Eyre</a> calls <i>The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus</i>, which features <a href="/wiki/Satyr" title="Satyr">satyrs</a> jumping out of box crates <a href="/wiki/Clogging" title="Clogging">clog dancing</a>, "among the five most imaginative pieces of drama in the 90s". <a href="/wiki/Jocelyn_Herbert" title="Jocelyn Herbert">Jocelyn Herbert</a>, famous designer of the British theatrical scene, comments that Harrison is aware of the dramatic visual impact of his ideas: "The idea of satyrs jumping out of boxes in <i>Trackers</i> is wonderful for the stage. Some writers just write and have little idea what it will look like, but Tony always knows exactly what he wants."<sup id="cite_ref-The_Guardian_2-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-The_Guardian-2"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>2<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Edith_Hall" title="Edith Hall">Edith Hall</a> has written that she is convinced that Harrison's 1998 <a href="/wiki/Film-poem" title="Film-poem">film-poem</a> <i><a href="/wiki/Prometheus_(1998_film)" title="Prometheus (1998 film)">Prometheus</a></i> is Harrison's "most brilliant artwork, with the possible exception of his stage play <i>The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus</i>".<sup id="cite_ref-Edith_Hall_17-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Edith_Hall-17"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>17<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><i><a href="/wiki/Punch_magazine" class="mw-redirect" title="Punch magazine">Punch</a></i> magazine writes that "Despite its jawbreaking title, <i>The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus</i> is a very merry and mischievous play, which turns serious and even harrowing, not through any visual violence but in the unnerving poetry of Tony Harrison".<sup id="cite_ref-Punch_18-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Punch-18"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>18<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Having been brought back to life through the rediscovered papyri the characters voice their grief at their neglected condition. Apollo laments through verse:<sup id="cite_ref-BrownSilverstone2008_6-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BrownSilverstone2008-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>Covered in rubbish! But what's much worse is<br />being resurrected with scarcely half my verses.<br />Converted into dust and bookworm excreta<br />riddled lines with just a ghost of their metre.</p></blockquote> <p>In a critique contained in the book <i>Tragedy in Transition</i> it is mentioned that Harrison's play with its chaotic, lively, dynamic and sometimes fragmented verses, to match the condition of the papyri, contrasts with the stilted coverage of classics during the Edwardian era. In that sense Harrison may be pointing toward a neoclassicism which could indicate to a complacent and ignorant modern society that there are things which cannot be "assimilated". Harrison uses one of the satyrs in his work to hint that the classical world may be neglected in the modern era:<sup id="cite_ref-BrownSilverstone2008_6-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-BrownSilverstone2008-6"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>6<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1244412712"><blockquote class="templatequote"><p>You, gormless grovelling sod<br />being so servile to that sodding god<br />got us stuck here in Great bloody Britain<br />where nowt about satyrs'll ever get written</p></blockquote> <p><i>The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare</i> quotes Harrison as saying that without the satyr plays we are missing the whole picture of the Greek imagination as applied to ancient Greek tragedy and its ability to use the satyr plays as a vehicle to absorb the impact of the tragic events and to not be defeated by them. In that sense, Harrison continues, the satyr plays precipitated a "spirit of celebration" into the dramatic festival which also caused a "release into the worship of Dionysus".<sup id="cite_ref-Brown2010_9-1" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> According to the same book, with his Trackers, Harrison wants to criticise the tendency of the elitists and right-wing politicians to divide art and society along refined and popular lines, represented by separate Apollonian and Dionysiac camps.<sup id="cite_ref-Brown2010_9-2" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>Harrison made a point against this artificial segregation by choosing a third venue for the performance of his play between Delphi and London; he chose an abandoned <a href="/wiki/Textile_mill" class="mw-redirect" title="Textile mill">textile mill</a> in <a href="/wiki/Salt%27s_Mill" class="mw-redirect" title="Salt's Mill">Salt's Mill</a>, <a href="/wiki/Bradford" title="Bradford">Bradford</a>, as a "homecoming" for his play. Harrison said that he chose Salt's Mill as a venue because the "ghosts of the past were strong" in that place and it was part of his "slow burning revenge" against his teacher who "denied him the opportunity to recite poetry or take part in plays because of his accent". He also mentioned that <a href="/wiki/Clogging" title="Clogging">clogging</a> "geared the satyrs into action", because that dance is "one of the principal expressions of the rhythm of life".<sup id="cite_ref-Brown2010_9-3" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Brown2010-9"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>9<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p>In <i>A Companion to Sophocles</i> Harrison's work is cited as an example of <i>bidirectional influence</i>,<sup id="cite_ref-Ormand_19-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ormand-19"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>19<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> in that the ancient play influenced Harrison's work and in turn Harrison's play is shown to have influenced the modern perception of Sophocles and his works. According to the book, the papyrus is used as the stage background of Harrison's play both at the Delphi performance and in London at the <a href="/wiki/Olivier_Theatre" class="mw-redirect" title="Olivier Theatre">Olivier Theatre</a>. Its physical presence as a stage backdrop was used as a constant reference to the origin of the characters. It also functions as a visual device and a highly visible reminder of the barrier between the world of high art and that of the hooligans and the homeless.<sup id="cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-8" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Ormand2012-8"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>8<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/T._P._Wiseman" title="T. P. Wiseman">T. P. Wiseman</a> remarks that Harrison has "opened up the possibilities" of an ancient Greek play which was until recently the exclusive domain of scholars specialising in the classics. According to Wiseman, Harrison's achievement is mirrored by the scene in his play when a chorus of satyrs jumps out of the papyrus crates.<sup id="cite_ref-20" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-20"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>20<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p><p><a href="/wiki/Mary_Beard_(classicist)" title="Mary Beard (classicist)">Mary Beard</a> writes that Harrison through his play focuses on the reasons for searching and studying the classics. Hunt is depicted as "down-to-earth", searching for real-life records registering problems such as the desperate pleas of the homeless of that era. But Grenfell is shown as keenly searching for fragments of ancient poetry. According to Beard, Harrison uses this dichotomy to pose a question as to the value and purpose the study of classics has for the modern world; it can be used as a source of information regarding the power politics of the ancient world with its social deprivations, <a href="/wiki/Slavery" title="Slavery">slavery</a> and <a href="/wiki/Misogyny" title="Misogyny">misogyny</a> or it can be studied for the value of the classical literature that can "still engage and inspire".<sup id="cite_ref-Bate2011_21-0" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-Bate2011-21"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>21<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="Recent_adaptations">Recent adaptations</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Trackers_of_Oxyrhynchus&action=edit&section=4" title="Edit section: Recent adaptations"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <p><i>The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus</i> was performed for the first time in 30 years at the <a href="/wiki/Finborough_Theatre" title="Finborough Theatre">Finborough Theatre</a> in January 2017. It was directed by Jimmy Walters in a joint venture with his company <a href="/w/index.php?title=Proud_Haddock&action=edit&redlink=1" class="new" title="Proud Haddock (page does not exist)">Proud Haddock</a> and <a href="/wiki/Neil_McPherson_(artistic_director)" title="Neil McPherson (artistic director)">Neil McPherson</a> at the Finborough Theatre. The production received excellent reviews with <i><a href="/wiki/The_Guardian" title="The Guardian">The Guardian</a></i> writing "there is nothing limp about Jimmy Walters' production".<sup id="cite_ref-22" class="reference"><a href="#cite_note-22"><span class="cite-bracket">[</span>22<span class="cite-bracket">]</span></a></sup> </p> <div class="mw-heading mw-heading2"><h2 id="References">References</h2><span class="mw-editsection"><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">[</span><a href="/w/index.php?title=The_Trackers_of_Oxyrhynchus&action=edit&section=5" title="Edit section: References"><span>edit</span></a><span class="mw-editsection-bracket">]</span></span></div> <style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1239543626">.mw-parser-output .reflist{margin-bottom:0.5em;list-style-type:decimal}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .reflist{font-size:90%}}.mw-parser-output .reflist .references{font-size:100%;margin-bottom:0;list-style-type:inherit}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-2{column-width:30em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns-3{column-width:25em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns{margin-top:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns ol{margin-top:0}.mw-parser-output .reflist-columns li{page-break-inside:avoid;break-inside:avoid-column}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-alpha{list-style-type:upper-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-upper-roman{list-style-type:upper-roman}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-alpha{list-style-type:lower-alpha}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-greek{list-style-type:lower-greek}.mw-parser-output .reflist-lower-roman{list-style-type:lower-roman}</style><div class="reflist"> <div class="mw-references-wrap mw-references-columns"><ol class="references"> <li id="cite_note-Burian2010-1"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Burian2010_1-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r1238218222">.mw-parser-output cite.citation{font-style:inherit;word-wrap:break-word}.mw-parser-output .citation q{quotes:"\"""\"""'""'"}.mw-parser-output .citation:target{background-color:rgba(0,127,255,0.133)}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-free.id-lock-free a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/65/Lock-green.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited.id-lock-limited a,.mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration.id-lock-registration a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/d/d6/Lock-gray-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription.id-lock-subscription a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/a/aa/Lock-red-alt-2.svg")right 0.1em center/9px no-repeat}.mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background:url("//upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4c/Wikisource-logo.svg")right 0.1em center/12px no-repeat}body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-free a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-limited a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-registration a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .id-lock-subscription a,body:not(.skin-timeless):not(.skin-minerva) .mw-parser-output .cs1-ws-icon a{background-size:contain;padding:0 1em 0 0}.mw-parser-output .cs1-code{color:inherit;background:inherit;border:none;padding:inherit}.mw-parser-output .cs1-hidden-error{display:none;color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-visible-error{color:var(--color-error,#d33)}.mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{display:none;color:#085;margin-left:0.3em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-left{padding-left:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .cs1-kern-right{padding-right:0.2em}.mw-parser-output .citation .mw-selflink{font-weight:inherit}@media screen{.mw-parser-output .cs1-format{font-size:95%}html.skin-theme-clientpref-night .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}@media screen and (prefers-color-scheme:dark){html.skin-theme-clientpref-os .mw-parser-output .cs1-maint{color:#18911f}}</style><cite id="CITEREFPeter_Burian2010" class="citation book cs1">Peter Burian (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=exKU5DZhg0MC&pg=PA395"><i>The Complete Euripides:Volume V: Medea and Other Plays</i></a>. Oxford University Press. p. 395. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-983092-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-983092-3"><bdi>978-0-19-983092-3</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Complete+Euripides%3AVolume+V%3A+Medea+and+Other+Plays&rft.pages=395&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-0-19-983092-3&rft.au=Peter+Burian&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DexKU5DZhg0MC%26pg%3DPA395&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Trackers+of+Oxyrhynchus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-The_Guardian-2"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-The_Guardian_2-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-The_Guardian_2-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-The_Guardian_2-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation news cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2000/apr/01/poetry.theatre">"The Guardian Profile: Tony Harrison Man of mysteries"</a>. <i>The Guardian</i>. 1 April 2000<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">17 May</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=article&rft.jtitle=The+Guardian&rft.atitle=The+Guardian+Profile%3A+Tony+Harrison+Man+of+mysteries&rft.date=2000-04-01&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.theguardian.com%2Fbooks%2F2000%2Fapr%2F01%2Fpoetry.theatre&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Trackers+of+Oxyrhynchus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Banham-3"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Banham_3-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Banham_3-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFMartin_Banham2004" class="citation book cs1">Martin Banham (13 May 2004). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=mkDRe19M7SgC&pg=PA19"><i>A History of Theatre in Africa</i></a>. Cambridge University Press. p. 19. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-139-45149-9" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-139-45149-9"><bdi>978-1-139-45149-9</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+History+of+Theatre+in+Africa&rft.pages=19&rft.pub=Cambridge+University+Press&rft.date=2004-05-13&rft.isbn=978-1-139-45149-9&rft.au=Martin+Banham&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DmkDRe19M7SgC%26pg%3DPA19&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Trackers+of+Oxyrhynchus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-France2000-4"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-France2000_4-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-France2000_4-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFPeter_France2000" class="citation book cs1">Peter France (2000). <span class="id-lock-registration" title="Free registration required"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/oxfordguidetolit00pete"><i>"The" Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation</i></a></span>. Oxford University Press. pp. <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/oxfordguidetolit00pete/page/363">363</a>–. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-818359-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-818359-4"><bdi>978-0-19-818359-4</bdi></a><span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">18 May</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=%22The%22+Oxford+Guide+to+Literature+in+English+Translation&rft.pages=363-&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2000&rft.isbn=978-0-19-818359-4&rft.au=Peter+France&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Farchive.org%2Fdetails%2Foxfordguidetolit00pete&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Trackers+of+Oxyrhynchus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Baldick2008-5"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Baldick2008_5-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Baldick2008_5-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFChris_Baldick2008" class="citation book cs1">Chris Baldick (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=mp0s9GgrafUC&pg=PA299"><i>The Oxford dictionary of literary terms</i></a>. Oxford University Press. pp. 299–300. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-920827-2" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-920827-2"><bdi>978-0-19-920827-2</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Oxford+dictionary+of+literary+terms.&rft.pages=299-300&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-19-920827-2&rft.au=Chris+Baldick&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dmp0s9GgrafUC%26pg%3DPA299&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Trackers+of+Oxyrhynchus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-BrownSilverstone2008-6"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-BrownSilverstone2008_6-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BrownSilverstone2008_6-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BrownSilverstone2008_6-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-BrownSilverstone2008_6-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFSarah_Annes_BrownCatherine_Silverstone2008" class="citation book cs1">Sarah Annes Brown; Catherine Silverstone (2008). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4CMq2Cirr4AC&pg=PA136"><i>Tragedy in Transition</i></a>. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 136–137. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-470-69130-4" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-470-69130-4"><bdi>978-0-470-69130-4</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Tragedy+in+Transition&rft.pages=136-137&rft.pub=John+Wiley+%26+Sons&rft.date=2008&rft.isbn=978-0-470-69130-4&rft.au=Sarah+Annes+Brown&rft.au=Catherine+Silverstone&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D4CMq2Cirr4AC%26pg%3DPA136&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Trackers+of+Oxyrhynchus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Hunter2010-7"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Hunter2010_7-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJefferson_Hunter2010" class="citation book cs1">Jefferson Hunter (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=JbnHvxuby54C&pg=PA282"><i>English Filming, English Writing</i></a>. Indiana University Press. p. 282. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-253-00414-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-253-00414-7"><bdi>978-0-253-00414-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=English+Filming%2C+English+Writing&rft.pages=282&rft.pub=Indiana+University+Press&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-0-253-00414-7&rft.au=Jefferson+Hunter&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DJbnHvxuby54C%26pg%3DPA282&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Trackers+of+Oxyrhynchus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Ormand2012-8"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-4"><sup><i><b>e</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-5"><sup><i><b>f</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-6"><sup><i><b>g</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-7"><sup><i><b>h</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Ormand2012_8-8"><sup><i><b>i</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFKirk_Ormand2012" class="citation book cs1">Kirk Ormand (2012). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=01PeVgizpREC&pg=PA557"><i>A Companion to Sophocles</i></a>. John Wiley & Sons. pp. 557–569. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-1-4051-8726-8" title="Special:BookSources/978-1-4051-8726-8"><bdi>978-1-4051-8726-8</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=A+Companion+to+Sophocles&rft.pages=557-569&rft.pub=John+Wiley+%26+Sons&rft.date=2012&rft.isbn=978-1-4051-8726-8&rft.au=Kirk+Ormand&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D01PeVgizpREC%26pg%3DPA557&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Trackers+of+Oxyrhynchus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Brown2010-9"><span class="mw-cite-backlink">^ <a href="#cite_ref-Brown2010_9-0"><sup><i><b>a</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Brown2010_9-1"><sup><i><b>b</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Brown2010_9-2"><sup><i><b>c</b></i></sup></a> <a href="#cite_ref-Brown2010_9-3"><sup><i><b>d</b></i></sup></a></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFJohn_Russell_Brown2010" class="citation book cs1">John Russell Brown (2010). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=4Hl0foJ0lOwC&pg=PA390"><i>The Routledge Companion to Directors' Shakespeare</i></a>. Taylor & Francis. p. 390. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-203-93252-0" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-203-93252-0"><bdi>978-0-203-93252-0</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=The+Routledge+Companion+to+Directors%27+Shakespeare&rft.pages=390&rft.pub=Taylor+%26+Francis&rft.date=2010&rft.isbn=978-0-203-93252-0&rft.au=John+Russell+Brown&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3D4Hl0foJ0lOwC%26pg%3DPA390&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Trackers+of+Oxyrhynchus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Eurípides2003-10"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Eurípides2003_10-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFEurípides2003" class="citation book cs1">Eurípides (2003). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=SVHw8WE_QlIC&pg=PR29"><i>Heracles and Other Plays</i></a>. Oxford University Press. pp. 29–30. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-283259-7" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-283259-7"><bdi>978-0-19-283259-7</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Heracles+and+Other+Plays&rft.pages=29-30&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2003&rft.isbn=978-0-19-283259-7&rft.au=Eur%C3%ADpides&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DSVHw8WE_QlIC%26pg%3DPR29&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Trackers+of+Oxyrhynchus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-ObbinkRutherford2011-11"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-ObbinkRutherford2011_11-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFDirk_ObbinkRichard_Rutherford2011" class="citation book cs1">Dirk Obbink; Richard Rutherford (2011). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=kfnYO2n-E8UC&pg=PA10"><i>Culture in Pieces: Essays on Ancient Texts in Honour of Peter Parsons</i></a>. Oxford University Press. p. 10. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-19-929201-1" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-19-929201-1"><bdi>978-0-19-929201-1</bdi></a>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Culture+in+Pieces%3A+Essays+on+Ancient+Texts+in+Honour+of+Peter+Parsons&rft.pages=10&rft.pub=Oxford+University+Press&rft.date=2011&rft.isbn=978-0-19-929201-1&rft.au=Dirk+Obbink&rft.au=Richard+Rutherford&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3DkfnYO2n-E8UC%26pg%3DPA10&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Trackers+of+Oxyrhynchus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-National_Theatre-12"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-National_Theatre_12-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.today/20130707075830/http://worthing.nationaltheatre.org.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Performance&dsqSearch=PerfCode=='624'&dsqCmd=Show.tcl">"Venue Ancient Stadium of Delphi, Greece"</a>. <i>Performance Database and Archive Catalogue</i>. National Theatre. Archived from <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://worthing.nationaltheatre.org.uk/DServe/dserve.exe?&dsqIni=Dserve.ini&dsqApp=Archive&dsqDb=Performance&dsqSearch=PerfCode%3D%3D%27624%27&dsqCmd=Show.tcl">the original</a> on 7 July 2013<span class="reference-accessdate">. Retrieved <span class="nowrap">26 May</span> 2013</span>.</cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Ajournal&rft.genre=unknown&rft.jtitle=Performance+Database+and+Archive+Catalogue&rft.atitle=Venue+Ancient+Stadium+of+Delphi%2C+Greece&rft_id=http%3A%2F%2Fworthing.nationaltheatre.org.uk%2FDServe%2Fdserve.exe%3F%26dsqIni%3DDserve.ini%26dsqApp%3DArchive%26dsqDb%3DPerformance%26dsqSearch%3DPerfCode%253D%253D%2527624%2527%26dsqCmd%3DShow.tcl&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Trackers+of+Oxyrhynchus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-Taplin1990-13"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-Taplin1990_13-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite id="CITEREFOliver_Taplin1990" class="citation book cs1">Oliver Taplin (1990). <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://books.google.com/books?id=k8kYAAAAYAAJ"><i>Greek fire</i></a>. Cape. p. 26. <a href="/wiki/ISBN_(identifier)" class="mw-redirect" title="ISBN (identifier)">ISBN</a> <a href="/wiki/Special:BookSources/978-0-224-02683-3" title="Special:BookSources/978-0-224-02683-3"><bdi>978-0-224-02683-3</bdi></a>. <q>Here on 12 July 1988 the World Premiere of Tony Harrison's play The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus was mounted, a single performance at which all filming was forbidden...</q></cite><span title="ctx_ver=Z39.88-2004&rft_val_fmt=info%3Aofi%2Ffmt%3Akev%3Amtx%3Abook&rft.genre=book&rft.btitle=Greek+fire&rft.pages=26&rft.pub=Cape&rft.date=1990&rft.isbn=978-0-224-02683-3&rft.au=Oliver+Taplin&rft_id=https%3A%2F%2Fbooks.google.com%2Fbooks%3Fid%3Dk8kYAAAAYAAJ&rfr_id=info%3Asid%2Fen.wikipedia.org%3AThe+Trackers+of+Oxyrhynchus" class="Z3988"></span></span> </li> <li id="cite_note-APGRD-14"><span class="mw-cite-backlink"><b><a href="#cite_ref-APGRD_14-0">^</a></b></span> <span class="reference-text"><link rel="mw-deduplicated-inline-style" href="mw-data:TemplateStyles:r1238218222"><cite class="citation web cs1"><a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.apgrd.ox.ac.uk/productions/scripts/6445">"The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, the Delphi text (1990)"</a>. 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