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Author: Kathleen Riley (Freelance writer, theatre historian, and critic, Freelance writer, theatre historian, and critic) ,
Alastair J. L. Blanshard (Paul Eliadis Professor of Classics and Ancient History, Paul Eliadis Professor of Classics and Ancient History, University of Queensland) ,
Iarla Manny (Michael Comber PhD Student in the Reception of the Classical World, Michael Comber PhD Student in the Reception of the Classical World, Open University/St Hilda's College, Oxford)
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Imprint: Oxford University Press
Dimensions:
Width: 16.30cm
, Height: 2.80cm
, Length: 24.10cm
Weight: 0.736kg
ISBN: 9780198789260
ISBN 10: 0198789262
Pages: 402
Publication Date: 30 November 2017
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Tertiary & Higher Education
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
The analysis and inclusion of a variety of sources, including unpublished, annotated manuscripts, transcripts, and Wilde's notebooks, are an invaluable resource and welcome additions to ongoing discussions on Wilde. . . . the debates present are original, well-conceived and offer readers a concrete position from which to expand and further consider Wilde's classicism. * Robert Finnigan, The Review of English Studies * I greatly enjoyed the varied viewpoints of these illuminating essays, which greatly deepened my understanding of Wilde's complex love and use of Classics and can heartily recommend the book to scholars and post-graduate students of Classical Reception, English Literature and Theatre Studies. The volume amply fulfils its stated aim of offering a model for studies based around an individual and their use of the Classical tradition. * Claire Gruzelier, Classics for All * Eighteen years after the centenary of Oscar Wilde's death in 1900, Oxford University Press has published this excellent monographic study . . . an excellent and highly recommended contribution to Wildean studies from the perspective of the classical tradition. * Pau Gilabert, International Journal of the Classical Tradition * This is a highly satisfying book, stimulating, varied, visually appealing, refreshingly jargon-free and exceptionally well edited. . . . It has much to offer anyone interested in the enigma of Wilde * Peter Raby, The Classical Review *
Author Information
Kathleen Riley is a former British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford and now a freelance writer, theatre historian, and critic. She is the author of Nigel Hawthorne on Stage (University of Hertfordshire Press, 2004), The Reception and Performance of Euripides' Herakles: Reasoning Madness (OUP, 2008), and The Astaires: Fred & Adele (OUP USA, 2012), which has been optioned for a British feature film. She reviews plays and books on dance for the Times Literary Supplement and is a contributor to the Encyclopedia of Greek Tragedy (Wiley-Blackwell, 2013). Her current projects include a monograph exploring the ancient Greek concept of Nostos (homecoming) and its manifestations in literature and drama over the last hundred years. Alastair Blanshard is the Paul Eliadis Professor of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Queensland. He works extensively in the field of Classical Reception studies, serving as an Associate Editor for the Classical Receptions Journal and the subject-area editor for Classical Reception for the Oxford Classical Dictionary, as well as overseeing the Classics after Antiquity series for Cambridge University Press as one of its general editors. His publications include Sex: Vice and Love from Antiquity to Modernity (Wiley-Blackwell, 2010), Classics on Screen: Ancient Greece and Rome on Film (with Kim Shahabudin; Bloomsbury, 2011), and Classical World: All That Matters (Hodder and Stoughton, 2015). Iarla Manny studied Classics at Trinity College Dublin and Balliol College, Oxford. His MPhil thesis on Gerard Manley Hopkins's Hellenism and Hebraism was awarded the Gaisford Graduate Dissertation Prize by the University of Oxford's Faculty of Classics, and he is a recent recipient of the Michael Comber PhD Studentship in the Reception of the Classical World, held jointly at the Open University and St Hilda's College, Oxford. He is currently completing his doctoral thesis on Oscar Wilde and Graeco-Roman antiquity.
