Euripides

Standard Name: Euripides

Connections

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Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
TW has done a number of translations from the work of dramatists in other languages, especially French and ancient Greek. As well as Lorca 's The House of Bernarda Alba, she has translated from...
Textual Production Timberlake Wertenbaker
This was followed by Hecuba, 2001, translated and adapted for radio from Euripides .
British Council Film and Literature Department, in association with Book Trust. Contemporary Writers in the UK. http://www.contemporarywriters.com.
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
Having described his...
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
When Betty was eleven...
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
Her prefatory comments are pessimistic but...
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
Under her married name, AMFR published another biography, The Life of Racine (the French playwright whose Phèdra retells the story from Euripides which had deeply interested her when young).
“Dictionary of Literary Biography online”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Center-LRC.
240
Intertextuality and Influence A. Mary F. Robinson
The title piece is a verse drama, a metrical translation
Robertson, Eric Sutherland. English Poetesses. Cassell.
377
of the whole of Euripides ' tragedy Hippolytus—at the end of which a curse uttered by Hippolytus' father, Theseus (in response to the...
Textual Features Sally Purcell
The short poems of this collection are, as usual with SP , highly allusive. Dr Dee II and Dr Dee III again deal with sixteenth-century magic. Other pieces respond to writing by other poets: to...
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

Actress Sybil Thorndike joined London's Old Vic Theatre under the management of Lilian Baylis .

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.