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The illustrated nineteenth-century travel diaries of artist, educator, and architect Thomas Kelah Wharton, documenting his trips in the lower Hudson River Valley and New Orleans to Boston and back.

In this masterful reevaluation of Euripides, Michael Walton recasts the playwright in light of his resonance for today's translators and directors. Springing from the rehearsal room rather than the page, Walton shows us not only why we are ready for Euripides, but why we so desperately need him.' Mary Louise Hart, Associate Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum 'A useful, reader-friendly introduction aimed at non-specialists, [it] offer...

Found in Translation addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into a target language.

This book is principally concerned with the relatively complex small molecules produced by plants, which are important as drugs, fine chemicals, fragrances, flavours and biologically-active dietary constituents. In a wide-ranging series of thematic essays, it covers key aspects of their role in plant ecology, their metabolism in the plant, their discovery, characterisation and use and their significance in the diet. Biotechnology, including pr...

In this updated and extended edition of The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy and comedy, scholar and practitioner J.Michael Walton revises and expands his visual approach to the theatre of classical Athens. From the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides to the old and new comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, he argues that while Greek drama is seen now as a performance-based rather than a strictly literary medium, more attention sho...

In this updated and extended edition of The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy and comedy, scholar and practitioner J.Michael Walton revises and expands his visual approach to the theatre of classical Athens. From the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides to the old and new comedies of Aristophanes and Menander, he argues that while Greek drama is seen now as a performance-based rather than a strictly literary medium, more attention sho...

This introduction to the comedy of Menander considers his plays primarily as performance pieces and uncovers the dramatic technique of this comic writer, whose plays had all but disappeared until the 1950s. It covers topics such as recent productions and the nature of Menander's commedy.

This introduction to the comedy of Menander considers his plays primarily as performance pieces and uncovers the dramatic technique of this comic writer, whose plays had all but disappeared until the 1950s. It covers topics such as recent productions and the nature of Menander's commedy.

?Though Walton's subject matter is familiar, his insights are fresh and revealing....Greek Theater Practice will appeal to anyone interested in classical theater in general and the effectiveness of the Athenian dramatist in particular. To read Walton is to believe in the theatricality of classical drama.?-Choice

Translating Classical Plays is a selection of edited papers by J. Michael Walton published and delivered between 1997 and 2014. Of the four sections, each with a new introduction, the first two cover the history of translating classical drama into English and specific issues relating to translation for stage performance. The volume is an invaluable resource for anyone involved in staging or translating classical drama.

Found in Translation addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into a target language.

The essays contained in this volume were composed as lectures throughout the 1980's. The studies on science and Mormonism and the House of Israel are the work of Michael T. Walton. The analysis of the Book of Abraham is a joint composition of Phyllis J. Walton and Michael T. Walton. They were never intended as definitive studies, rather as encouragements to scholars to look at certain issues and patterns of facts. They were well received at th...

A discussion of fifteenth century London medical men (physician, surgeons, and barber-surgeons), their guilds, personal lives, lawsuits, etc... based on various legal records.

Subtitled: )Persians, Proetheus Bound, Women Of Trachis, Philoctetes, Trojan Women, Bacchae(.

)Birds, Frogs, Women In Power, The Woman From Samos, Cyclops( and )Alkestis(.