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An original Oresteia?

Posted on September 21, 2015 by Claire_M

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A peculiarity in staging classical tragedies is that they are too frequently judged by how close the performance is to how it would have (supposedly) been in antiquity. The risk is that this critique consigns these works to connoisseurship, or … Continue reading →

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‘Made in translation’ (or gloomily lamenting lost languages)

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Claire_M

Went last night to the excellent ‘Sappho in the City’; came home to a pile of catch-up editing for Wikipedia.* In an odd coincidence, translation was at the heart of both these activities. (Even if Josephine Balmer’s translation of Sappho … Continue reading →

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