Faint Sounds of Shovelling
John Kerrigan: The History of Tragedy, 20 December 2018
Ladies’ Greek: Victorian Translations of Tragedy
by Yopie Prins.
Princeton, 297 pp., £24, April 2017,978 0 691 14189 3 Show More
by Yopie Prins.
Princeton, 297 pp., £24, April 2017,
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages
by Tanya Pollard.
Oxford, 331 pp., £60, September 2017,978 0 19 879311 3 Show More
by Tanya Pollard.
Oxford, 331 pp., £60, September 2017,
Eclipse of Action: Tragedy and Political Economy
by Richard Halpern.
Chicago, 313 pp., £34, April 2017,978 0 226 43365 3 Show More
by Richard Halpern.
Chicago, 313 pp., £34, April 2017,
Samson Agonistes: A Redramatisation after Milton
by John Kinsella.
Arc, 109 pp., £10.99, October 2018,978 1 911469 55 1 Show More
by John Kinsella.
Arc, 109 pp., £10.99, October 2018,
“... looked for in the contribution of Virgil, Ovid and other Latin authors to the work of Marlowe, Greene and the rest. Pollard shows that Greek was also part of their formation. Shakespeare’s early collaborator George Peele, for instance, translated Iphigenia in Aulis and explored the grief and rage of Hecuba in his narrative poem A Tale of ... ”