Tony Harrison's Iphigenia in Tauris @ClassicsConfidentia1

Uploaded March 2012 | Updated September 2026, 2 days ago

Henry Stead meets up with Prof. Edith Hall, who last year went to Tauris (modern day Crimea) on a research trip with the poet and playwright, Tony Harrison. After a Leverhulme funded residency at University of London Harrison has all but finished his new version of Euripides' 'Iphigenia in Tauris.' Video includes rare footage of Harrison reading from 'Trackers of Oxyrhynchus.'

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