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Translating Ancient Drama

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Students of Chickenshed performing The Toy Makers Child, in brightly coloured costumes.
Inclusive Theatre and Community-Building: Dave Carey and Marco Martinelli
Creative producer Dave Carey and theatre director Marco Martinelli in conversation with Giovanna Di Martino
Marco Martinelli, 
Dave Carey
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre
Student participants at a workshop in Chickenshed studio theatre
Aristophanes at Chickenshed
A five-day workshop on Aristophanes’ Peace by University of Bristol, UCL, and University of Parma
Chickenshed Theatre, London
A close-up of Pieter Bruegel's painting, The Tower of Babel.
Aristophanes after Babel: Plutus in Translation from the Early Modern Period to the Present Day
A two-day hybrid conference
University of Grenoble
Photograph of a theatre workshop on Aristophanes, depicting a group of students dressed in camouflage military fatigues
Coro di guerra, coro di pace: International Aristophanes
Workshops by BIP Erasmus+ Fall School 2023 (Memory and Performance: Classical Reception in the Performing Arts)
University of Parma
The cover of Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe.
Book Launch: Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe (15th-16th Centuries)
Book launch
Malika Bastin-Hammou, 
Giovanna Di Martino, 
Cécile Dudouyt, 
Lucy Jackson
Nunn Hall, Room 421, 20 Bedford Way, London, WC1H 0AL
A close-up of Naumachia nel Giardino Ducale di Parma
Memory and Performance II: Classical Reception in Early Modern Festivals (15th-18th Century)
The second part of a two-part international conference
University College London
A close-up of Naumachy in the Ducal Garden Palace in Parma.
Memory and Performance I: Classical Reception in Early Modern Festivals (15th-18th Century)
The first part of a two-part international conference
University of Parma
An image of a map.
Translating Ancient Greek Drama 1600-1800
IAS Common Ground G11, ground floor, South Wing UCL, Gower Street London WC1E 6BT
An Early Modern map of Europe.
Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Europe 1600-1750
An Early Modern map of Europe.
On Translating Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe (ca. 1400-1600)
An Early Modern map of Europe.
Translating Greek Tragedy in Sixteenth Century Europe
Vernon Harcourt Room, St Hilda's College, Oxford
Josephine Balmer
Josephine Balmer on translating the fragments of Aeschylus’ Myrmidons
Josephine Balmer, 
Laura Swift , 
Oliver Taplin
Lecture Theatre, Ioannou Centre, 66 St Giles, Oxford
Photograph of a statue of a Muse, holding masks, with a blue sky behind
Translation into Theatre and the Social Sciences
A two-day international conference
St Hilda's College and the Ioannou Centre
Photograph of a book on a table; title of the book is The Thebans translated by Timberlake Wertenbaker
Translating the Classics: Timberlake Wertenbaker in conversation
Playwright and translator Timberlake Wertenbaker talks to Margaret Williamson (Leverhulme Visiting Professor at the APGRD)
Timberlake Wertenbaker, 
Margaret Williamson
Lecture Theatre, 66 St Giles
Sepia photograph of Gilbert Murray as a young scholar, reading a book
Translation, Oxford and the Classics
A one-day colloquium explore the position of Oxford in the history of translating the classics
Lecture Theatre, 66 St Giles
A painting of an open book, stood upright, the right-hand page shows an image of a ladder against a wall, a man at the top of the ladder is looking out over the top of the book
Reception, Translation, and Dissolution (Pope, Homer, Dante, Tennyson, Conrad)
Week 8 of the Reception and Translation research seminar
Matthew Reynolds
First Floor Seminar Room, 66 St Giles
A painting of an open book, stood upright, the right-hand page shows an image of a ladder against a wall, a man at the top of the ladder is looking out over the top of the book
Translating Sophocles' Electra: Community and subjectivity
Week 7 of the Reception and Translation research seminar
Margaret Williamson
First Floor Seminar Room, 66 St Giles
A painting of an open book, stood upright, the right-hand page shows an image of a ladder against a wall, a man at the top of the ladder is looking out over the top of the book
Dryden's Aeneis and the Writing of Empire
Week 6 of the Reception and Translation research seminar
Stuart Gillespie
First Floor Seminar Room, 66 St Giles