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Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast

Reimagining Tragedy from Africa and the Global South

A podcast with Mark Fleishman and Mandla Mbothwe
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Book at Lunchtime: Sophocles – Antigone and other tragedies

TORCH Book at Lunchtime event on Sophocles: Antigone and other tragedies by Professor Oliver Taplin. With panellists Professor Karen Leeder and Dr Lucy Jackson.
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD Podcast

University Classical Plays

Representatives from University College London and Oxford University discuss their respective classical plays, a rich university tradition for each which has been forced to adapt significantly during the Covid-19 pandemic.
TORCH | The Oxford Research Centre in the Humanities

Live Event: Tragedy and Plague - In Conversation with Professor Oliver Taplin and Fiona Shaw CBE

TORCH Goes Digital! presents a series of weekly live events Big Tent - Live Events! Part of the Humanities Cultural Programme, one of the founding stones for the future Stephen A. Schwarzman Centre for the Humanities. Drama Week
Approaching Shakespeare
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Cymbeline

Professor Emma Smith continues her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on one of Shakespeare’s later plays, Cymbeline.
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

Playwright Frank McGuinness in conversation with Fiona Macintosh

Acclaimed playwright Frank McGuinness talks with Fiona Macintosh about his work adapting Greek tragedies for modern theatre, particularly Antigone and Medea.
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

E. M. Forster’s Tragic Interior

David Scourfield, of Maynooth University, discusses E. M. Forster's relationship with Greek tragedy in the APGRD's second, annual Classics and English Lecture
Medea, a performance history: APGRD eBooks

Medea, a performance history (ebook)

A free to download, interactive/multimedia ebook by the APGRD, on the production history of Euripides' tragedy Medea
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

Director Ian Rickson on Sophocles' Electra at the Old Vic (2014)

Director Ian Rickson talks about his 2014 production of Sophocles' Electra at the Old Vic, London, starring Kristin Scott Thomas as Electra
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

Playwright Marina Carr in conversation with Fiona Macintosh

Playwright Marina Carr discusses her adaptation of Euripides' Hecuba, which premiered at the RSC in 2015, and her long-standing relationship with Greek Tragedy
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

Poet and Playwright Gwyneth Lewis on writing Clytemnestra

Poet and playwright, Gwyneth Lewis discusses her relationship with Greek tragedy and her play Clytemnestra.
Reimagining Ancient Greece and Rome: APGRD public lectures

Actor Helen McCrory discusses Medea with Edith Hall

Helen McCrory talks about her title role in the acclaimed 2014 production of Euripides' Medea at the National Theatre
Approaching Shakespeare

Timon of Athens

Emma Smith finishes her Approaching Shakespeare series with a lecture on the play Timon of Athens.
Approaching Shakespeare

Julius Caesar

This lecture on Julius Caesar discusses structure, tone, and politics by focusing on the cameo scene with Cinna the Poet.
Approaching Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet

This lecture on Romeo and Juliet tackles the issue of the spoiler-chorus, in an already-too-familiar play. This podcast is suitable for school and college students.
St Anne's College

Costume in Greek Tragedy

From the St Anne's Classics Reunion. The role of swords in Greek tragedy by Dr Rosie Wyles.
What is Translation?

Can Poetry be Translated?

Third part of the What is Translation podcast series. In this part, the question of whether poetry be translated. Is there something within the original that is lost in the translation?
What is Translation?

Is there ever a Faithful Translation?

Second part of the What is Translation podcast series. In this part, the question of whether there can be a faithful translation; does the act of translating a text change the meaning of the original is discussed.
What is Tragedy?

Defining Tragedy

First dialogue between Oliver Taplin and Joshua Billings on tragedy: they discuss what 'tragedy' means, from its origins in Greek culture to philosophical notions of what tragedy and tragic drama are.

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