Kenneth McLeish was een productieve vertaler en auteur, die zich diepgaand bezighield met klassiek Grieks drama en het bredere theatrale oeuvre. Zijn omvangrijke werk omvatte alle overgebleven klassieke Griekse toneelstukken, naast belangrijke werken van Ibsen, Feydeau en een groot aantal andere gerenommeerde toneelschrijvers. McLeish's academische expertise kwam tot uiting in zijn kritische studies en vertalingen, die oud drama toegankelijk maakten voor het hedendaagse publiek. Hij leverde ook een aanzienlijke bijdrage aan kinderliteratuur, waarmee hij een brede literaire veelzijdigheid demonstreerde.
This title offers a survey into the place and purpose of theatre in Ancient Greece. It provides an author-by-author examination of the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes and Menander plus how and where the plays were performed, who acted them out and who watched them. schovat popis
Children of the Gods sets out first to tell the Greek myths straight through without interruption as all good stories ought to be. Its chapters range from 'Creation of the universe' and the 'Coming of the gods' to the more familiar stories of Jason and the Golden Fleece, Oedipus, Agamemnon and Odysseus. Other features of the book are: alternative versions of the myths . extra stories . family charts . star maps . explanation of facts . map of the places mentioned . bibliography . index. These combine to make Children of the Gods a comprehensive work of reference as well as a straight and vivid retelling of the myths and legends that are central to the history of western culture. In addition, the specially commissioned illustrations by Elisabeth Frank, one of Britain's leading artists, make this a book to keep and treasure.
One of the best-known, most frequently performed of modern plays, A Doll's House richly displays the genius with which Henrik Ibsen pioneered modern, realistic prose drama. In the central character of Nora, Ibsen epitomized the human struggle against the humiliating constraints of social conformity. Nora's ultimate rejection of a smothering marriage and life in "a doll's house" shocked theatergoers of the late 1800s and opened new horizons for playwrights and their audiences. But daring social themes are only one aspect of Ibsen's power as a dramatist. A Doll's House shows as well his gifts for creating realistic dialogue, a suspenseful flow of events and, above all, psychologically penetrating characterizations that make the struggles of his dramatic personages utterly convincing. Here is a deeply absorbing play as readable as it is eminently playable, reprinted from an authoritative translation. A selection of the Common Core State Standards Initiative.
More than 350 major authors, from Margaret Atwood to Mile Zola, through Bruce Chatwin, Aldous Huxley, and Nevil Shute, are arranged in alphabetical order, each with a short article on style, influences, settings, theme, along with a list of their salient works. At the end of each entry, a Read On" section directs readers to similar works by other authors."
McLeish's new verse play, a twenty-first century interpretation of the ancient myth of Orpheus.
'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all'A superb introduction to one of the greatest thinkers of all time, and the father of logic and science.
