Louis MacNeice: The Classical Radio Plays

Kate Clanchy, The Times Literary Supplement lucid, useful and entertaining

Tom Walker, The Cambridge Quarterly Each script has a further introduction of its own ... These explain the classical literature and history drawn on, and highlight relevant contemporary context particularly essential to understanding the fast-moving historical backdrop to the war propaganda ... The annotations to the scripts strike a good balance between being full, accurate, and yet succinct. They illuminate the classical sources further and offer much interesting information besides

Thomas R. Keith, The Classical Journal Wrigley and Harrison have done a valuable service to reception studies. Film and television may still draw the lion's share of attention, but with the appearance of this impressive volume, it will now be impossible to deny the important place of radio in the history of twentieth-century reception of the classics.

Philip Burton, Bryn Mawr Classical Review without exception lucid and informative.

<br>Dr Amanda Wrigley is a Research Associate on the three-year AHRC-funded project, Screen Plays: Theatre Plays on British Television, at the University of Westminster. She is also an Associate Lecturer for The Open University. Dr Wrigley is a cultural historian who works mostly on the interlinked histories of British theatre, radio, and television with a specific focus on the drama of ancient Greece on the one hand, and educational uses of theatre and mass media on the other. She is the author of Performing Greek Drama in Oxford and on Tour with the Balliol Players (2011), Greece on Air: Engagements with Ancient Greek Culture on BBC Radio, 1920s-1960s (OUP, 2013), and the forthcoming Greece on Screen: Greek Plays on British Television. <br>S.J.Harrison is Fellow and Tutor in Classics at Corpus Christi College, Oxford, and Professor of Latin Literature at the University of Oxford. He is author of books on Vergil, Horace, and Apuleius, and of a range of pieces on classical reception in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.<br>

PREFACE ; LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS ; LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS ; ARCHIVAL SOURCES ; EDITORIAL CONVENTIONS ; INTRODUCTION ; Louis MacNeice, Classical Antiquity, and BBC Radio: From Wartime Propaganda to Radio Plays ; RADIO SCRIPTS ; The March of the 10,000 (1941) ; The Glory that is Greece (1941) ; Pericles (1943) ; The Golden Ass (1944) ; Cupid and Psyche (1944) ; A Roman Holiday (1945) ; Enter Caesar (1946) ; Enemy of Cant (1946) ; Trimalchio s Feast (1948) ; Carpe Diem (1956) ; Hades (1960) ; APPENDIX: EXTANT SCRIPTS AND RECORDINGS ; BIBLIOGRAPHY ; INDEX