Euripides

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...

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)...

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...

This play weaves together seven contemporary stories with Euripides ' The Bacchae.

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 .

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 ...

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...

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...

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...

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...