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Textual Production | A. Mary F. Robinson | |
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 | |
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 | |
Textual Production | Anne Dacier | |
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 | |
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... |