The Politics of Re-(en)visioning: Contemporary British Rewritings of Greek and Roman Tragedies

This thesis examines three different kinds of socio-political rewritings of Greek and Roman tragedies – Sarah Kane’s “Phaedra’s Love”, Tony Harrison’s “Prometheus”, and Martin Crimp’s “Cruel and Tender” – written, staged or screened in Britain (and, more precisely, England) between 1996 and 2004. Offering close readings of these re-visionary appropriations, this dissertation analyses some of the innumerable and unexpected forms that ancient tragedy can assume today. In particular, it explores how three talented British authors have subverted the conventions of the noblest literary and dramatic genre in order to (re)write contemporaneity in ways that oscillate between the personal and the public, the local and the global, the national and the transnational.

Transactions of the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences, Arts, and Letters.

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The philanthropic work of Josephine Shaw Lowell: containing a biographical sketch of her life, together with a selection of her public papers and private letters

collected and arranged for publication by William Rhinelander Stewart.

Letters of a business woman to her daughter, and, Letters of a business girl to her mother

by Zora Putnam Wilkins.

Letters to Hannah Collins, 1806 July

Two letters to Hannah Collins dated July 26 and 29, 1806, regarding money owed by Croswell for washing services.

Letters from William Croswell to Sarah Bumstead, 1820

This folder contains fifteen letters to Croswell's sister that primarily discuss financial issues and information about Croswell's activities.

Letters from William Croswell to John Thornton Kirkland, 1820 April-August

This folder contains copies of three brief letters from Croswell to Harvard President Kirkland, dated April 5, 1820, July 6, 1820, and August 28, 1820, requesting payment.

Letters from William Croswell to Redford Webster, 1821 January

This folder contains drafts of two one-page letters, dated January 5, 1821, and January 9, 1821, regarding financial assistance.

Letters from William Croswell to Sarah Bumstead, 1821

This folder contains three letters from Croswell to his sister dated January 19, 1821; February 22, 1821; and March 18, 1821, that mention money and Croswell's activities.

Letters from William Croswell to the Harrison Gray Otis, 1824-1825

Two leaves containing drafts of brief notes that accompanied letters for Harvard Corporation between April 1824 and April 1825.