Billington, Michael. “Fate meets human flaws”. Guardian Weekly, 20–26 Feb. 2003, p. 16.
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Occupation | Maya Angelou | 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... |
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, 20–26 Feb. 2003, p. 16. 16 |
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... |
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, 2000. 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, 2003. title-page, prelims |
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... |
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, 1966–1989, 5 vols. 4: 368 |
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 |
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, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44. 327 Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols. 2: 1006 |
Textual Features | Mary Elizabeth Coleridge | 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... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Cary Viscountess Falkland | 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... |
Textual Features | Sally Purcell | |
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... |
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 (... |
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... |
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