Speakers
              
      Timberlake Wertenbaker, 
                  Margaret Williamson
              Venue
                        Lecture Theatre, 66 St Giles
            Date
            Research project
                      
                Playwright and translator, Timberlake Wertenbaker, talks to Margaret Williamson (Dartmouth) about translating the classics for the contemporary stage. This lecture concludes the one-day colloquium, Translation, Oxford and the Classics, feel free to attend either the full day or only this public lecture at 5pm.
Wertenbaker's translations include:
The Thebans by Sophocles (1992)
Hecuba by Euripides (2001) (radio)
Hippolytus by Euripides (2009)
Phèdre by Jean Racine (2009)
Elektra by Sophocles (2010 & 2012)
Antigone by Sophocles (2011)