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Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays (Hardcover)
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Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays (Hardcover)
Series: Classical Presences
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This volume presents eleven radio scripts written and produced by
the poet and writer Louis MacNeice (1907-1963) over the span of his
twenty-year career at the BBC, during which he wrote and produced
well over a hundred radio scripts on an impressively wide variety
of subjects. This volume's selection of scripts, all but one of
which is published for the first time, illustrates the various ways
that MacNeice re-worked one particular and recurrent source of
material for radio broadcast - ancient Greek and Roman history and
literature. The volume thus seeks to explore MacNeice's literary
relationship with classical antiquity, including engagements with
authors such as Homer, Thucydides, Aristophanes, Xenophon,
Petronius, Apuleius, and Horace, in a variety of types of
programmes from wartime propaganda work, which used ancient Greek
history to comment on the international situation, to lighter
entertainment programmes drawing on the Roman novel. MacNeice's
educational background in classics, combined with his skill as a
writer and his ability in exploring radio's potential for creative
work, resulted in programmes which brought the ancient world
imaginatively alive for a massive, popular audience at home and
abroad. Each script is prefaced by an individual introduction,
written by the editors and guest contributor Gonda Van Steen,
detailing the political and broadcasting contexts, the relationship
of the script with classical antiquity, notes on cast and credits,
and the reception of each script's radio performance amongst
contemporary listeners. The volume opens with a general
introduction which seeks to contextualise the scripts in MacNeice's
wider life and work for radio, and it includes an appendix of
extant MacNeicean scripts and recordings.
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