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The evidence for Greek drama (2024)
Book Chapter
Jackson, L. The evidence for Greek drama. In D. Stuttard (Ed.), Looking at Greek Drama. Bloomsbury

Ghostly Reception and Translation ad spiritum: The Case of Nicholas Grimald’s Archipropheta (1548) (2023)
Journal Article
Jackson, L. (2023). Ghostly Reception and Translation ad spiritum: The Case of Nicholas Grimald’s Archipropheta (1548). Translation and Literature, 32(2), 139-156. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2023.0546

When considering the landscape of drama and theatre performance in the sixteenth century in terms of classical reception, original plays written in Latin have not been accorded full attention. The many hundreds of Latin plays written and performed in... Read More about Ghostly Reception and Translation ad spiritum: The Case of Nicholas Grimald’s Archipropheta (1548).

Translation ad spiritum. Euripides’ Orestes and Nicholas Grimald’s Archipropheta (1548) (2023)
Book Chapter
Jackson, L. C. (2023). Translation ad spiritum. Euripides’ Orestes and Nicholas Grimald’s Archipropheta (1548). In G. Di Martino, C. Dudouyt, & L. C. Jackson (Eds.), Translating Ancient Greek Drama in Early Modern Europe: Theory and Practice (15th–16th Centuries) (207-226). De Gruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110719185-012

One of two surviving plays by the English sixteenth-century scholar and poet Nicholas Grimald tells the story of John the Baptist’s last days. In many ways this play, the Archipropheta (published in Cologne in 1548), adheres to the trends of Latin dr... Read More about Translation ad spiritum. Euripides’ Orestes and Nicholas Grimald’s Archipropheta (1548).

Introite, pueri! The School-Room Performance of George Buchanan's Latin Medea in Bordeaux (2020)
Journal Article
Jackson, L. C. (2020). Introite, pueri! The School-Room Performance of George Buchanan's Latin Medea in Bordeaux. Journal of Latin Cosmopolitanism and European Literatures, 3, 43-61. https://doi.org/10.21825/jolcel.vi3.9256

Performances of Latin drama had become a widespread phenomenon in European schools by the middle of the sixteenth century. The potential for these dramas to have a significant impact on the students who performed or watched these plays was recognised... Read More about Introite, pueri! The School-Room Performance of George Buchanan's Latin Medea in Bordeaux.

Proximate Translation: George Buchanan's Baptistes, Sophocles’ Antigone, and Early Modern English Drama (2020)
Journal Article
Jackson, L. C. (2020). Proximate Translation: George Buchanan's Baptistes, Sophocles’ Antigone, and Early Modern English Drama. Translation and Literature, 29(1), 85-100. https://doi.org/10.3366/tal.2020.0410

This essay takes up the question of what impact Greek tragedy had on original plays written in Latin in the sixteenth century. In exploring George Buchanan's biblical drama Baptistes sive calumnia (printed 1577) and its reworking of scenes and images... Read More about Proximate Translation: George Buchanan's Baptistes, Sophocles’ Antigone, and Early Modern English Drama.

Knowledge Exchange and Classical Outreach (2018)
Book Chapter
Jackson, L. C. (2018). Knowledge Exchange and Classical Outreach. In M. Musié, A. Holmes-Henderson, S. Hunt, & E. Searle (Eds.), Forward with Classics Classical Languages in Schools and Communities (33-36). Bloomsbury