The history of the study of
ancient Greece and Rome's relationship to social class has never
before been systematically examined. Edith's research is intended
to pioneer a shift in the way we think about the history of the
cultural presence of 'Classics' in Britain 1789-1939, by looking at
it through the prism of social class. With postdoctoral researcher
Dr Henry Stead. Edith is looking for compelling answers to the
question of the true social sole played by engagement with Classics
can be sought through an interdisciplinary study which focuses on
the records left by working-class people as well as by the educated
elite. They include lower-class diaries, autobiographies, memoirs,
stories, poetry, journalism, entertainments, records of
recreational activities, and political publications. In 2013 Edith
embarked on an investigation of these sources, for details of which
see the project's extensive website
Forthcoming
Books
Greek Theatre
and Performance around the Ancient Black
Sea
On
3rd-5th July 2015, Edith convened a conference with Rosie Wyles and
David Braund bringing western scholars of the ancient theatre
face-to-face with archaeologists and cultural historians from
Russia, Bulgaria, Georgia and the Ukraine to discusss exicing new
evidence for the performance culture of the Greeks around the Black
Sea in antiquity. The conference washosted by the Centre for
Hellenic Studies at King's College London in conjunction with the
APGRD at Oxford. The book presenting this research is to be
published by Cambridge University Press..
Aristophanic Humour:
Theory and Practice
This volume, co-edited with
Peter Swallow, will be published by Bloomsbury in 2020.
Edith is editing Aeschylus'
Agamemnon for the Aris & Phillips series
New Light on Tony
Harrison
and
Tony Harrison, Poet of
Radical Classicism
New Light on Tony
Harrison, of which Edith is the Editor, contains the lectures
and tributes delivered at a conference in honour of his 80th
birthday in April 2017 at the British Academy, Contributors include
Lee Hall, Simon Armitage, Blake Morrison, Jo Balmer, Edith Hall and
Richard Eyre. Here is Harrison pictured in 2017 with his
partner, actor Sian Thomas.
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Edith's monograph, Tony
Harrison, Poet of Radical Classicism, will be published
as part of the Bloomsbury
series Classics in
Twentieth-Century Writing (series editor, Dr Laura Jansen) in
2019.
