Laura swift has a book on lyric in Tragedy, its called the "Hidden Chorus" or something, it might (I can't remember) talk about the Doric elements, its certainly not philologically heavy. In fact, I'm finding it hard to think of good treatments of this topic...might actually be worth doing it myself. :S But then to be fair I don't venture into drama that often.
Treatments of tragic language tend to be a bit...flimsy unfortunately, cf for example Willi's fantastic treatment of Greek comedic language from a wide area of approach, traditional historical, dialectological, sociological etc. Fascinating...
Also, with words like menis etc, if they have specific connotations they're less likely to be changed. Saying that, I don't know how fixed the Homeric overtones would have been that early...certainly the earliest rhapsodic variants have no trouble replacing it with words like kholos, so...yeah.
(Occasionally) Working on the following tutorials:
(P)Aristotle, Theophrastus and Peripatetic Greek
Intro Greek Poetry
Latin Historical Prose