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Classics in Post-Colonial Worlds by Lorna Hardwick 9780199591329
Booksplease Price: £58.61Classical material was traditionally used to express colonial authority, but it was also appropriated by imperial subjects to become first a means of challenging colonialism and then a rich field for... -
Translating Words, Translating Cultures by Lorna Hardwick 9780715629123
Booksplease Price: £29.88Never have there been so many different types of translations of Greek and Latin literature into English. Most people experience Homer and Greek tragedy for the first time through translations. New... -
A Companion to Classical Receptions Lorna Hardwick (The Open University, UK) 9781444339222
RRP: £39.95Booksplease Price: £37.42Examining the profusion of ways in which the arts, culture, and thought of Greece and Rome have been transmitted, interpreted, adapted and used, A Companion to Classical Receptions explores the... -
Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry: Making Connections by Lorna Hardwick 9780198907879
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £89.65Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers,... -
Greek and Roman Antiquity in First World War Poetry: Making Connections by Lorna Hardwick 9780198907886
Booksplease Price: £20.45Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers,... -
Rupert Brooke, Charles Sorley, Isaac Rosenberg, and Wilfred Owen: Classical Connections by Lorna Hardwick 9780192856678
RRP: £90.00Booksplease Price: £87.03Rupert Brooke, Wilfred Owen, Isaac Rosenberg, and Charles Sorley all died in the First Word War. They came from diverse social, educational, and cultural backgrounds, but for all of the writers,... -
Sex and War on the American Stage: Lysistrata in performance 1930-2012 Emily Klein 9781032928951
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69American adaptations of Aristophanes' enduring comedy Lysistrata have used laughter to critique sex, war, and feminism for nearly a century. Unlike almost any other play circulating in contemporary... -
Classics and Colonialism by Barbara Goff 9780715633113
Booksplease Price: £31.86This collection of well-focussed essays is the first to examine explicitly the role played by the literature and culture of classical antiquity in the various discourses that established, maintained... -
Greek Tragedy and the Middle East: Chasing the Myth Pauline Donizeau 9781350355736
Booksplease Price: £30.54Employing the idea of interculturality to study Middle Eastern adaptations of Greek tragedy from the turn of 20th century until the present day, this book first explores the earlier phase of the... -
Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English by J. Michael Walton 9780521102896
Booksplease Price: £32.12In considering the practice and theory of translating Classical Greek plays into English from a theatrical perspective, Found in Translation, first published in 2006, also addresses the wider issues... -
A.E. Housman: Classical Scholar by Chris Stray 9781472533609
Booksplease Price: £35.83A.E. Housman (1859-1936) was a man of many apparent contradictions, most of which remain unresolved 150 years after his birth. At once a deeply emotive lyric poet and a precise and dedicated... -
Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English by J. Michael Walton 9780521861106
RRP: £94.00Booksplease Price: £89.99In considering the practice and theory of translating Classical Greek plays into English from a theatrical perspective, Found in Translation, first published in 2006, also addresses the wider issues... -
Seduction and Power: Antiquity in the Visual and Performing Arts by Silke Knippschild 9781474223799
Booksplease Price: £40.79This volume focuses on the reception of antiquity in the performing and visual arts from the Renaissance to the twenty-first century. It explores the tensions and relations of gender, sexuality,... -
Seamus Heaney and the Classics: Bann Valley Muses by Stephen Harrison
RRP: £105.00Booksplease Price: £100.10Seamus Heaney, the great Irish poet, made a significant contribution to classical reception in modern poetry; though occasional essays have appeared in the past, this volume is the first to be wholly... -
Victorian Classical Burlesques by Laura Monros-Gaspar 9781472537867
Booksplease Price: £34.47The Victorian classical burlesque was a popular theatrical genre of the mid-19th century. It parodied ancient tragedies with music, melodrama, pastiche, merciless satire and gender reversal...