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Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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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 |
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/. |
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 | 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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Liz Lochhead | LL
says that she used Euripides
as a complete structural template but then let go. Lochhead, Liz, and Euripides. Medea. Nick Hern. foreword |
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 (... |
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 |
Intertextuality and Influence | Isabella Neil Harwood | |
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... |
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 | 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... |
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
... |
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... |
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