Ruth Padel. http://web.archive.org/web/20090507090438/http://www.ruthpadel.com/index.htm.
Imagery of the Elsewhere, 1974-2005
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Publishing | Ruth Padel | RP
, as a graduate student, published in Classical Quarterly an academic article entitled 'Imagery of the Elsewhere' Two Choral Odes of Euripides. Ruth Padel. http://web.archive.org/web/20090507090438/http://www.ruthpadel.com/index.htm. Imagery of the Elsewhere, 1974-2005 |
Publishing | A. Mary F. Robinson | The University Magazine carried AMFR
's verse translations of Aristophanes
and Euripides
under the titles An Address to the Nightingale and The Sickness of Phaedra. Houghton, Walter E., and Jean Harris Slingerland, editors. The Wellesley Index to Victorian Periodicals 1824-1900. University of Toronto Press. 4: 368 |
Publishing | Charlotte Lennox | CL
published, with her name, The Greek Theatre of Father Brumoy, an edition of twenty-five translated plays by Euripides
and Sophocles
(which had appeared in French in 1759). Isles, Duncan. “The Lennox Collection”. Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. 18 , No. 4, pp. 317-44. 327 Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press. 2: 1006 |
Author summary | Lady Jane Lumley | LJL
was a Renaissance translator who distinguished herself by producing the earliest extant English version of a tragedy by Euripides
, which is also the earliest play by a woman in English. She also translated... |
Performance of text | Florence Farr | As well as writing for the stage, FF
composed music for it, notably for Harley Granville-Barker
's production of Gilbert Murray
's translation of Hippolytus by Euripides
, which was performed in May 1902. She... |
Performance of text | Liz Lochhead | LL
's adaptation of Euripides
' tragedy Medea, produced by Theatre Babel
, had its first performance at the Old Fruitmarket
in Glasgow. Lochhead, Liz, and Euripides. Medea. Nick Hern. prelims |
Performance of text | Liz Lochhead | Following LL
's Medea, her Thebans (adapted from Sophocles
and Euripides
and to a lesser extent from Æschylus
) opened at the Assembly Rooms in Edinburgh as part of the Fringe Festival
. Lochhead, Liz et al. Thebans. Nick Hern. title-page, prelims |
Performance of text | Edna O'Brien | EOB
's adaptation of Euripides
's tragedy Iphigenia in Aulis premiered at the Crucible Theatre
in Sheffield. Billington, Michael. “Fate meets human flaws”. Guardian Weekly, p. 16. 16 |
Occupation | Florence Farr | FF
composed the music and led the chorus for Harley Granville-Barker
's production of Euripides
' Hippolytus, translated by Gilbert Murray
and performed at the Court Theatre
. Johnson, Josephine. Florence Farr: Bernard Shaw’s new woman. Colin Smythe. 111 |
Occupation | Florence Farr | The lecture proved quite popular, and Clifford's Inn had to turn people away. Over the following years, FF
put on many such readings, performing works by Homer
, Shelley
, Yeats
, Lady Gregory
... |
Occupation | Maya Angelou | Back in the USA, when a projected vocation in politics died with Malcolm X
, she returned to nightclub singing, then, after recuperating emotionally, to the dream of becoming a writer. Meanwhile she got a... |
Material Conditions of Writing | Lady Jane Lumley | Soon after she became a child bride, LJL
, still living in her father
's house, made the earliest extant English translation of a Greek tragedy: Iphigeneia from Euripides
. Blain, Virginia et al., editors. The Feminist Companion to Literature in English: Women Writers from the Middle Ages to the Present. Yale University Press; Batsford. Matthew, Henry Colin Gray et al., editors. Oxford Dictionary of National Biography. http://www.oxforddnb.com/. |
Literary responses | Ethel M. Dell | She judged that EMD
dealt honestly with human feelings, with the problems of the heart and the conscience. Nor was it, she insisted, absurd to compare her with Euripides
or Shakespeare
; in an image... |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. Mary F. Robinson | The title piece is a verse drama, a metrical translation Robertson, Eric Sutherland. English Poetesses. Cassell. 377 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Jane Ellen Harrison | Harrison was always engaged in debates with her colleagues at Cambridge
and elsewhere: her writing here was inspired in part by Gilbert Murray
's unorthodox translation of Euripides
' Hippolytus, published in 1902. Both... |
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