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Euripides
Standard Name: Euripides
Connections
Connections | Author name Sort ascending | Excerpt |
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Textual Production | Timberlake Wertenbaker | |
Textual Production | Timberlake Wertenbaker | This was followed by Hecuba, 2001, translated and adapted for radio from Euripides
. |
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 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Evelyn Waugh | 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. TLS Centenary Archive Centenary Archive [1902-2012]. http://www.gale.com/c/the-times-literary-supplement-historical-archive. (10 September 1964): 836 |
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... |
Education | Elizabeth Taylor | 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. Beauman, Nicola. The Other Elizabeth Taylor. Persephone Books. 12-13 |
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... |
Education | Dora Russell | 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... |
Intertextuality and Influence | Dora Russell | 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. Russell, Dora. The Tamarisk Tree: My Quest for Liberty and Love. G. P. Putnam’s Sons. 1: 32 |
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 |
Textual Production | A. Mary F. Robinson | |
Intertextuality and Influence | A. Mary F. Robinson | The title piece is a verse drama, a metrical translation Robertson, Eric Sutherland. English Poetesses. Cassell. 377 |
Textual Features | Sally Purcell | |
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 |
Timeline
1914: Actress Sybil Thorndike joined London's Old...
Building item
1914
Texts
O’Brien, Edna, and Euripides. Iphigenia. Methuen, 2003.
Euripides,. Iphigenia at Aulis. Editor Child, Harold H., Translator Lumley, Lady Jane, Malone Society, 1909.
Lochhead, Liz, and Euripides. Medea. Nick Hern, 2000.
Euripides,. The Medea of Euripides. Translator Webster, Augusta, Macmillan, 1868.
Lochhead, Liz et al. Thebans. Nick Hern, 2003.