Euripides

Standard Name: Euripides

Connections

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Textual Production A. Mary F. Robinson
Under her married name, AMFR published another biography, The Life of Racine (the French playwright whose Phèdra retells the story from Euripides which had deeply interested her when young).
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
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Textual Production H. D.
HD's second book, published the same year as number three in the Poets' Translation Series from the Egoist Press , was a volume of verse translations: Choruses from the Iphigeneia in Aulis and the Hippolytus...
Textual Production Mary Stewart
MS wrote My Brother Michael after she had visited Greece two or three times, and was wildly in love with it. She longed to set a book there, to re-create certain places for myself and...
Textual Production H. D.
Between her Freudian analysis and the outbreak of the Second World War, HD returned to translation with Ion by Euripides , 1937. She had already, the previous year, moved to fresh fields by issuing a...
Textual Production Anne Carson
AC 's translations from Greek manage to incorporate some of the quirkiness of her original texts and titles. She titled If Not, Winter. Fragments of Sappho, 2002, from a poetic scrap that leaves the...
Textual Production Augusta Webster
AW 's translation of Medea by Euripides was published.
The Athenaeum Index of Reviews and Reviewers: 1830-1870. http://replay.web.archive.org/20070714065452/http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~asp/v2/home.html.
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW has done a number of translations from the work of dramatists in other languages, especially French and ancient Greek. As well as Lorca 's The House of Bernarda Alba, she has translated from...
Textual Production Anne Dacier
Contemporary witnesses suggested that the couple had also worked together on Sophocles , Euripides , Plutarch , Epictetus , and Plato . According to recent critics, their sharing of their scholarly work without compromising the...
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
This was followed by Hecuba, 2001, translated and adapted for radio from Euripides .
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
Textual Features Elizabeth Cary, Viscountess Falkland
The play is a Senecan tragedy, written for the closet, not the public stage, though it is worth remembering that upper-class circles reading or performing such plays were connoisseurs of the highly dramatised masque...
Textual Features Sally Purcell
The short poems of this collection are, as usual with SP , highly allusive. Dr Dee II and Dr Dee III again deal with sixteenth-century magic. Other pieces respond to writing by other poets: to...
Textual Features Mary Augusta Ward
The book is a tribute to the OxfordMAW so loved. The book traces the arrival of an orphaned heiress at the home of her uncle, a married and financially struggling Reader in classics at...
Textual Features Eliza Lynn Linton
As before, Eliza Lynn had done plenty of research for this novel, and she passes it on, in lengthy descriptions of the places, costume, and ceremonies of ancient Athens. She employs specialised diction (...
Textual Features Augusta Webster
The monologues featuring women adopt a feminist tone. Webster defends the mythical Medea (whom she had already treated in translating the tragedy of Euripides about her), who helps the Greek hero Jason to capture the...
Textual Features Mary Elizabeth Coleridge
She reads Euripides ' Medea as a new woman, which is not a mark of approbation of the character. Medea the murderess of her children, she writes, is thoroughly fin de siecle, a woman...

Timeline

1914: Actress Sybil Thorndike joined London's Old...

Building item

1914

Actress Sybil Thorndike joined London's Old Vic Theatre under the management of Lilian Baylis .

Texts

O’Brien, Edna, and Euripides. Iphigenia. Methuen, 2003.
Euripides,. Iphigenia at Aulis. Editor Child, Harold H., Translator Lumley, Lady Jane, Malone Society, 1909.
Lochhead, Liz, and Euripides. Medea. Nick Hern, 2000.
Euripides,. The Medea of Euripides. Translator Webster, Augusta, Macmillan, 1868.
Lochhead, Liz et al. Thebans. Nick Hern, 2003.