Euripides

This polemic was heavily influenced by her reading of Euripides ' Medea during her adolescence, and by her later outlook on modern sex education, marriage, and motherhood. Her prefatory comments are pessimistic but...

KKD 's concern about the treatment of women is further exemplified in her poem on the fetishization of Sylvia Plath 's suicide, Myths and Monsters. Dyson suggests that Plath's martyrdom occurred out of a...

The title piece is a verse drama, a metrical translation of the whole of Euripides ' tragedy Hippolytus—at the end of which a curse uttered by Hippolytus' father, Theseus (in response to the...

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...

INH based her Orestes on the ancient Greek legend already dramatised by Sophocles and Euripides . Her play begins when Orestes is very young. He vows to have vengeance on both his mother, Clytemnestra, and...

Waugh presents himself as having been born into a world of beauty and preparing to die amid ugliness, an exile from the conditions of his childhood and youth. Having described his...

Here Barker retains the main lines of a story related by Homer , but from the mostly unexplored women's viewpoint (where she is given a lead by Euripides ' powerful play The Trojan Women)...

Back in England, she was tutored by her father in Greek and Latin; her reading of the Medea by Euripides later informed her first book, Hypatia; or, Woman and Knowledge. Dora then earned a...

Her first school, where she went at the age of six, was a little private establishment called Leopold House, which gave a grounding in English and maths and team games. When Betty was eleven...