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Tony Harrison Plays 6

Author : Tony Harrison
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571352537
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Tony Harrison Plays 6 written by Tony Harrison and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2019-04-16 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Harrison's sixth collection includes a foreword by Lee Hall. The book contains Harrison's translation of Euripides's Hecuba, which inaugurated the modern amphitheatre of Delphi in 2005; the remarkable Fram, which opened at the National Theatre in 2008; and Iphigenia in Crimea, after Euripides, which premiered on BBC Radio 3 to mark Tony Harrison's eightieth birthday in 2016.'Tony is that incredibly rare beast: as great a playwright as he is a poet.' Lee Hall 'I am convinced that Tony Harrison is one of the truly great poets writing in English today.' Melvyn BraggHecuba 'Harrison's urgent translation never lets us forget the aching topicality of Euripides' study of the powerful and the powerless.' Guardian Fram'Harrison brings gloriously rich life to the stage, by turns funny and rending. His couplets are a feast for rhyme junkies.' Financial Times'As visually resplendent a piece of theatre as you will see all year. The words more than hold their own, however, expressing in rhymes to be relished that poetry might yet, if not lead us out of the darkness, at least make us feel ashamed we're still stuck in it.' Sunday Times Iphigenia in Crimea Set in Sebastapol, 1854, inthe midst of the Crimean war, a lieutenant decides to stage an all-male production of Euripides's tragedy. After initial raucous incredulity, the atmosphere changes as the men commit themselves to the drama until, as it draws to a close, ancient and modern worlds collide and warfare resumes in earnest.

Tony Harrison Plays 2

Author : Tony Harrison
Publisher : Faber & Faber
ISBN 13 : 0571318576
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (713 download)

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Download or read book Tony Harrison Plays 2 written by Tony Harrison and published by Faber & Faber. This book was released on 2014-08-07 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This second collection of Tony Harrison's poetry for the stage contains his adaptations of Molière, Racine and Victor Hugo. Included are the plays The Misanthrope, Phaedra Britannica and The Prince's Plays.The volume contains introductions, written by Tony Harrison, to each of the plays.

Tony Harrison

Author : Edith Hall
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474299342
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Tony Harrison written by Edith Hall and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2021-01-14 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the first book-length study of the classicism of Tony Harrison, one of the most important contemporary poets in England and the world. It argues that his unique and politically radical classicism is inextricable from his core notion that poetry should be a public property in which communal problems are shared and crystallised, and that the poet has a responsibility to speak in a public voice about collective and political concerns. Enriched by Edith Hall's longstanding friendship with Harrison and involvement with his most recent drama, inspired by Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris, it also asserts that his greatest innovations in both form and style have been direct results of his intense engagements with individual works of ancient literature and his belief that the ancient Greek poetic imagination was inherently radical. Tony Harrison's large body of work, for which he has won several major and international prizes, and which features on the UK National Curriculum, ranges widely across long and short poems, plays, translations and film poems. Having studied Classics at Grammar School and University and having translated ancient poets from Aeschylus to Martial and Palladas, Harrison has been immersed in the myths, history, literary forms and authorial voices of Mediterranean antiquity for his entire working life and his classical interests are reflected in every poetic genre he has essayed, from epigrams and sonnets to original stage plays, translations of Greek drama and Racine, to his experimental and harrowing film poems, where he has pioneered the welding of tightly cut video materials to tightly phrased verse forms. This volume explores the full breadth of his oeuvre, offering an insightful new perspective on a writer who has played an important part in shaping our contemporary literary landscape.

Tony Harrison and the Classics

Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0198861079
Total Pages : 337 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (988 download)

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Download or read book Tony Harrison and the Classics written by Sandie Byrne and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2022 with total page 337 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Harrison and the Classics comprises fifteen chapters examining the lasting importance of Tony Harrison's classical education, the extent of the influence of Greek and Roman texts on his subjects, themes, and styles, his contribution to knowledge and understanding of classical literature, his popularization of classical works, and his innovative treatment of classical drama in plays which have been performed globally. Harrison's work fosters debates about the role and perception of the classics and adaptations of classical literature in relation to education, 'high' and 'popular' culture, accessibility, and reception. A unifying theme of the collection is the way in which Harrison finds in classical literature fruitful matter for the articulation and dramatization of his longstanding preoccupations: language, class, access to art, and the causes and effects of war. Through his adaptations and translations, Harrison uses classical drama to stage interventions in modern politics, but neither idealizes nor romanticizes the ancient world, depicting inequality, bigotry, greed, and brutality.

V

Author : Tony Harrison
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780906427989
Total Pages : 38 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (279 download)

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Download or read book V written by Tony Harrison and published by . This book was released on 1985 with total page 38 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Harrison's v. was written during the Miners' Strike of 1984-85 when he visited his parents' grave in a Leeds cemetery and found it vandalised by obscene graffiti. Channel Four's film of v. prompted extreme political and media reaction documented in the book's second edition (1989).

Tony Harrison

Author : Sandie Byrne
Publisher : Clarendon Press
ISBN 13 : 0191583642
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (915 download)

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Download or read book Tony Harrison written by Sandie Byrne and published by Clarendon Press. This book was released on 1997-05-29 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tony Harrison: Loiner is published to celebrate the poet and playwright Tony Harrison's sixtieth birthday through an exploration of his work, including his best-known poem v.. Harrison (1937- ) has been called `our best English poet', and has been awarded a number of prizes for his poetry, including the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize, the Royal Television Society Award, the Prix Italia, and the Whitbread Prize for Poetry. This book gives his work the serious critical attention it merits, with essays from a number of prominent contributors, including Richard Eyre and Melvyn Bragg, and a foreword by Grey Gowrie. The collection ranges from personal recollections of working with Tony Harrison and personal responses to his poems, to detailed critical analyses of his techniques and themes, covering Harrison's short poems and sonnet sequence, his plays, his television poem-films, and his libretti, spanning the years 1955-1997. A `loiner' is a native of Leeds, where Tony Harrison was born and spent the early part of his life, and from which he was dispossessed by the enforced translation of the state scholarship system. The word also connotes other aspects of Tony Harrison: the `loins' of his poetry—its energy and physicality—and the `loners' who are its main protagonists—men and women dispossessed of their class, nation, language, and identity. At sixty, Harrison is at his poetic peak, producing plays, film-scripts, libretti, journalistic responses to social and national strife, impassioned speeches of love and outrage—always in poetry. Tony Harrison: Loiner introduces the major themes and forms of our most exciting and cosmopolitan as well as technically accomplished poet, and reassesses his achievement and place in twentieth-century literature.

Playing a Part in History

Author : Margaret Rogerson
Publisher : University of Toronto Press
ISBN 13 : 0802099246
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book Playing a Part in History written by Margaret Rogerson and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Playing a Part in History examines the ways in which the revival of The York Mystery Plays transformed them for twentieth- and twenty-first-century audiences.

Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality

Author : Sarah Nooter
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009320386
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (93 download)

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Download or read book Greek Poetry in the Age of Ephemerality written by Sarah Nooter and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-04-27 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book suggests that poetry offers a way to remain in the world – not only by declarations of intent or the promotion of remembrance, but also through the durable physicality of its practice. Whether carved in stone or wood, printed onto a page, beat out by a mimetic or rhythmic body, or humming in the mind, poems are meant to engrave and adhere. Ancient Greek poetry exhibits a particularly acute awareness of change, decay, and the ephemerality inherent in mortality. Yet it couples its presentation of this awareness with an offering of meaningful embodiment in shifting forms that are aligned with, yet subtly manipulative of, mortal time. Sarah Nooter's argument ranges widely across authors and genres, from Homer and the Homeric Hymns through Sappho and Archilochus to Pindar and Aeschylus. The book will be compelling reading for all those interested in Greek literature and in poetry more broadly.

A Companion to Sophocles

Author : Kirk Ormand
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1119025532
Total Pages : 624 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (19 download)

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Download or read book A Companion to Sophocles written by Kirk Ormand and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2015-06-02 with total page 624 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Companion to Sophocles presents the first comprehensive collection of essays in decades to address all aspects of the life, works, and critical reception of Sophocles. First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays and to the remaining fragments of one satyr-play, the Ichneutae, in addition to each of his extant tragedies Features new essays on Sophoclean drama that go well beyond the current state of scholarship on Sophocles Presents readings that historicize Sophocles in relation to the social, cultural, and intellectual world of fifth century Athens Seeks to place later interpretations and adaptations of Sophocles in their historical context Includes essays dedicated to issues of gender and sexuality; significant moments in the history of interpreting Sophocles; and reception of Sophocles by both ancient and modern playwrights

Tony Harrison

Author : Joe Kelleher
Publisher : Northcote House Pub Limited
ISBN 13 : 0746307896
Total Pages : 97 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (463 download)

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Download or read book Tony Harrison written by Joe Kelleher and published by Northcote House Pub Limited. This book was released on 1996 with total page 97 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his lucid critical study Joe Kelleher brings Tony Harrison's diverse output together under coherent themes, from his early published verse The Loiners (1970), to his accomplished translation and adaptation of The Oresteia (1981), through to his recent work for stage and television including The Shadow of Hiroshima (1995).

Euripides

Author : Christopher Collard
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 1908343354
Total Pages : 539 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (83 download)

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Download or read book Euripides written by Christopher Collard and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2013 with total page 539 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Satyric is the most thinly attested genre of Greek drama, but it appears to have been the oldest and according to Aristotle formative for tragedy. By the 5th Century BC at Athens it shared most of its compositional elements with tragedy, to which it became an adjunct; for at the annual great dramatic festivals, it was performed only together with, and after, the three tragedies which each poet was required to present in competition. It was in contrast with them, aesthetically and emotionally, its plays being considerably shorter and simpler; coarse and half-way to comedy, it burlesqued heroic and tragic myth, frequently that just dramatised and performed in the tragedies. Euripides' Cyclops is the only satyr-play which survives complete. It is generally held to be the poet's late work, but its companion tragedies are not identifiable. Its title alone signals its content, Odysseus' escape from the one-eyed, man-eating monster, familiar from Book 9 of Homer's Odyssey. Because of its uniqueness, Cyclops could afford only a limited idea of satyric drama's range, which the many but brief quotations from other authors and plays barely coloured. Our knowledge and appreciation of the genre have been greatly enlarged, however, by recovery since the early 20th Century of considerable fragments of Aeschylus, Euripides' predecessor, and of Sophocles, his contemporary – but not, so far, of Euripides himself. This volume provides English readers for the first time with all the most important texts of satyric drama, with facing-page translation, substantial introduction and detailed commentary. It includes not only the major papyri, but very many shorter fragments of importance, both on papyrus and in quotation, from the 5th to the 3rd Centuries; there are also one or two texts whose interest lies in their problematic ascription to the genre at all. The intention is to illustrate it as fully as practicable.

Euripides: Trojan Women

Author : Barbara Goff
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1472521226
Total Pages : 187 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (725 download)

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Download or read book Euripides: Trojan Women written by Barbara Goff and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 187 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set at the end of the Trojan war, "Euripides' Trojan Women" depicts the women of Troy as they wait to be taken into slavery. While choral songs recall the death-throes of the great city, the scenes between the old queen, Hekabe, and the women of her family explore the consequences of the defeat, from the rape of Cassandra, through the triumphant self-exculpation of Helen, to the pitiful death of the child Astyanax, who is thrown from the walls of his ravaged city. Barbara Goff sets the play in its historical, dramatic and literary contexts, and provides a scene-by-scene analysis which brings out the pace and intellectual vigour of the play. The main themes are fully discussed, and the book also introduces readers to the issues that have divided critics, such as the extent to which the play responds to the historical events of the Peloponnesian War. The final chapter, which deals with the reception of the play, offers new insights into several modern works.

A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama

Author : Betine van Zyl Smit
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118347757
Total Pages : 619 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (183 download)

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Download or read book A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama written by Betine van Zyl Smit and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-05-23 with total page 619 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Handbook to the Reception of Greek Drama offers a series of original essays that represent a comprehensive overview of the global reception of ancient Greek tragedies and comedies from antiquity to the present day. Represents the first volume to offer a complete overview of the reception of ancient drama from antiquity to the present Covers the translation, transmission, performance, production, and adaptation of Greek tragedy from the time the plays were first created in ancient Athens through the 21st century Features overviews of the history of the reception of Greek drama in most countries of the world Includes chapters covering the reception of Greek drama in modern opera and film

Tony Harrison and the Holocaust

Author : Antony Rowland
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780853235163
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (351 download)

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Download or read book Tony Harrison and the Holocaust written by Antony Rowland and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Antony Rowland argues that the poetry of Tony Harrison is barbaric. The author discusses how Holocaust literature engages with a number of concepts challenged or altered by historical events, such as love, mourning, memory, culture and barbarism.

No Dialect Please, You're a Poet

Author : Claire Hélie
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1000124207
Total Pages : 319 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (1 download)

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Download or read book No Dialect Please, You're a Poet written by Claire Hélie and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2019-07-23 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: No Dialect Please, You're a Poet is situated at the crossroads in research areas of literature and linguistics. This collection of essays brings to the forefront the many ways in which dialect is present in poetry and how it is realized in both written texts and oral performances. In examining works from a wide range of poets and poetries, from acclaimed poets to emerging ones, this book offers a comprehensive introduction to poetics of dialects from a variety of regions, across two centuries of English poetry.

Hercules Performed

Author :
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004696938
Total Pages : 418 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book Hercules Performed written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2024-08-29 with total page 418 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Hercules Performed explores the reception of the ancient Greek hero Herakles – the Roman Hercules – on the western stage from the sixteenth century to the present day, focusing on live theatre, including tragedy, comedy and musical drama. Each chapter considers a particular work or theme in detail, exploring the interplay between classical models and a wide variety of modern performance contexts. The volume is one of four to be published in the Metaforms series examining the extraordinarily persistent figuring of Herakles-Hercules in western culture, drawing together scholars from a range of disciplines to offer a unique insight into the hero’s perennial appeal.

The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation

Author : Peter France
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0198183593
Total Pages : 680 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (981 download)

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Download or read book The Oxford Guide to Literature in English Translation written by Peter France and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2000 with total page 680 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "The Guide offers both an essential reference work for students of English and comparative literature and a stimulating overview of literary translation in English."--BOOK JACKET.