Euripides

Standard Name: Euripides

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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 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
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.
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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 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.
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, No. 4, Oct. 1970, pp. 317-44.
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Fleeman, John David, and James McLaverty. A Bibliography of the Works of Samuel Johnson. Clarendon Press, 2000, 2 vols.
2: 1006
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
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
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...
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...
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...

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