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Æschylus
Standard Name: Æschylus
Used Form: Aeschylus
Connections
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Theme or Topic Treated in Text | Augusta Webster | She omits reviews from this collection, but provides readers with an opportunity to consider literary topics. The Translation of Poetry argues that because [i]n poetry the form of the thought is part of the thought... |
Textual Production | Sheenagh Pugh | SP
published a poetry collection entitled, with allusion to the Greek tragedian Æschylus
, Beware Falling Tortoises. |
Textual Production | Anna Swanwick | AS
published her blank-verse translation of The Agamemnon, Choephori, and Eumenides by Æschylus
: a complete edition of his plays followed in 1873. 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. 1974 (1865): 275 Solo: Search Oxford University Libraries Online. http://solo.bodleian.ox.ac.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?vid=OXVU1&fromLogin=true&reset_config=true. |
Textual Production | Christine Brooke-Rose | CBR
published Amalgamemnon, a novel written in the future and conditional tenses, the subjunctive or imperative moods, Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press. 107n26 “Contemporary Authors”. Gale Databases: Literature Resource Centre-LRC. Birch, Sarah. Christine Brooke-Rose and Contemporary Fiction. Clarendon Press. 230 |
Textual Production | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | Elizabeth Barrett
's first volume produced independently of family help, Prometheus Bound, Translated from the Greek of Æschylus; and Miscellaneous Poems, by the Translator, was published anonymously. It consisted largely of her translation of Æschylus
' tragedy. Garrett, Martin. A Browning Chronology: Elizabeth Barrett and Robert Browning. Macmillan. 19 OCLC WorldCat. http://www.oclc.org/firstsearch/content/worldcat/. Accessed 1999. |
Textual Production | Augusta Webster | With her husband Thomas Webster
acting as editor, AW
published a translation of Prometheus Bound by Æschylus
. 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. British Library Catalogue. http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?dscnt=0&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1489778087340&vid=BLVU1&mode=Basic&fromLo. |
Textual Production | Mona Caird | One of MC
's best-known novels appeared: The Daughters of Danaus (the first novel among the selection mentioned in the Times after her death, and reprinted by the Feminist Press
in 1989). In Greek mythology... |
Textual Production | Anne Carson | |
Textual Production | J. K. Rowling | The two epigraphs inserted at the beginning of this final novel added an element of seriousness to the work: the first is from Aeschylus
and the second from the seventeenth-century QuakerWilliam Penn
. A... |
Textual Features | Elizabeth Barrett Browning | It contained the contents of the previous volumes, a new translation of Æschylus
's Prometheus Bound, The Runaway Slave at Pilgrim's Point, and further sonnets. These including sonnets on her sisters, her dog... |
Publishing | Anna Swanwick | |
politics | Beatrice Harraden | BH
seems to have been patriotic (at least in contrast with those of her friends who were pacifists) and pro-Empire: that is, apart from the issue of women's suffrage, fairly conservative in politics. But as... |
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. title-page, prelims |
Material Conditions of Writing | Anna Swanwick | AS
found her life in London too busy to allow her the concentration she needed to translate the rest of Æschylus
. She therefore retired for the winter of 1866-7 to Bangor in North Wales... |
Literary responses | Sappho | Margaret Reynolds
in The Sappho Companion, 2001, sweeps with a broad net translations, portraits, ballets, operas, poems, plays, novels, songs and treatises. Gubar, Susan. “Multiple personality”. Women’s Review of Books, Vol. xviii , No. 12, pp. 13-14. 13 |
Timeline
February 1906: Publisher J. M. Dent launched Everyman's...
Writing climate item
February 1906
Publisher J. M. Dent
launched Everyman's Library, aiming to reprint
1,000 classic titles: the first year's 155 volumes included Æschylus
, Shakespeare
, Jane Austen
practically complete, and Lady Mary Wortley Montagu
.
Clair, Colin. A Chronology of Printing. Cassell.
169
Texts
Æschylus,. Prometheus Bound. Translator Browning, Elizabeth Barrett, A. J. Valpy, 1833.
Æschylus,. The Agamemnon, Choephori, and Eumenides of Aeschylus. Translator Swanwick, Anna, Bell and Daldy, 1865.
Æschylus,. The Dramas of Æchylus. Translator Swanwick, Anna, Bell and Daldy, 1873.
Æschylus,. The Prometheus Bound of Aeschylus. Webster, ThomasEditor & translator , Macmillan, 1866.