P.J. Ford and R. Green (dir.), George Buchanan: poet and dramatist

Philip J. Ford and Roger Green (dir.), George Buchanan: poet and dramatist, Swansea: Classical Press of Wales, 2009. 380 p.

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• ISBN 9781905125364. 

Présentation de l'éditeur:

Educated in Scotland and France, George Buchanan became one of the most influential writers of 16th century Europe. Writing in the lingua franca of his time - Classical Latin - he was to be hailed internationally as easily the prince of poets' . Here fifteen scholars, from many countries, analyse his writings, his creative use of ancient texts for contemporary purposes, and his impact on the culture of Scotland and of Europe - not least in the spheres of tragedy and music.

Table des matières:

Buchanan's poetic achievement (Philip Ford);

'Redundant' epithets in Buchanan's Pastorals (Robert Cummings);

Literary metamorphosis in Buchanan's De Sphaera (Emma Gee);

The writing of memory in George Buchanan's Iusta (Nathalie Catellani-Dufrene);

Homo exsul as the lyric persona in Buchanan's Psalms (Elwira Buszewicz);

The Heavens are Telling: a Psalm-paraphrase-poem analysed (Roger Green);

The historical importance of Jean Servin's settings of Buchanan's Psalm Paraphrases (James Porter);

Buchanan's Psalms and the musical settings by Statius Olthof (Margaret Duncumb);

Buchanan's tragedies and contemporary dramatic theory (Giacomo Cardinali);

Biblical inspiration in Buchanan's tragedies (Carine Ferradou);

Buchanan and the poetics of borrowing in the Latin translation of Euripides' Medea (Jean-Frederic Chevalier);

'Translating' Buchanan (Ronnie Jack);

Drama out of the 'closet': Buchanan on stage (Jamie Reid Baxter);

'Return, Buchanan ' The Letter of Walter Dennistoun to George Buchanan and Buchanan's Reply (Jack MacQueen);

Dry Bones of Contention? Picking apart Buchanan's Psalms (Roger Green);

George Buchanan's Half Millennium (Robert Crawford).