Dr Lucy Jackson's Outputs (2)

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.