John Barton

Tantalus: The Greek Epic Cycle Retold in Ten Plays (eBook, ePUB)

The Epic Greek Cycle Retold in Ten Plays
Redaktion: Soden, Oliver

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

William Pett Ridge was born at Chartham, near Canterbury, Kent on 22nd April 1859.

His family's resources were certainly limited. His father was a railway porter, and his son, after schooling in Marden, Kent became a clerk in a railway clearing house

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oberon Books
• Seitenzahl: 420
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. Februar 2014
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781839671890
• Artikelnr.: 58573506

Autorenporträt

John Barton is a writer and director who, with Peter Hall, co-founded the Royal Shakespeare Company, where Barton was an active director for over forty years. His landmark productions included Twelfth Night with Judi Dench as Viola, and a sequence of Shakespeare's History Plays (with Peter Hall). A prolific writer and adaptor, he has spent over 30 years developing Tantalus, which is an extension of his earlier work, The Greeks (1980). He has adapted some twenty other texts for the theatre and has also had published The First Stage, The Hollow Crown, The Wars of the Roses, The Greeks, La Ronde, The Rover and the legendary Playing Shakespeare (also a television series).