When | Friday, Jan 15, 2021, 2 – 4 a.m. |
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Campus location | Hutchinson Hall (HUT) |
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Online Meeting Link | washington.zoom.us… |
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Event Types | Lectures/Seminars |
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Event sponsors | Center for Performance Studies, UW School of Drama |
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Target Audience | students, scholars, and non-specialist interested in theatre and performance |
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| | Description | The Coffee and Concepts Series begins the new year with a talk by Hallie Marshall, a theatre scholar from the University of British Columbia. Her talk, "Is Euripides Dead?" takes inspiration from T. S. Eliot's essay “Euripides and Professor Murray”, a scathing attack on Gilbert Murray’s translations of ancient Greek tragedy. At the time Eliot was a relatively unknown poet working in a bank, while Murray was the Regius Professor of Greek at Oxford and had a significant public profile as a translator and political activist. This paper explores the extent to which Eliot’s essay has come to shape Murray’s posthumous reputation, but also poses questions about how scholars read decades-old criticism across the shifting tides of individual reputations and the larger cultural and socio-political context. |
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