Playwright and translator, Timberlake Wertenbaker, talks to Margaret Williamson (Dartmouth) about translating the classics for the contemporary stage. This lecture concludes the one-day colloquium, Translation, Oxford and the Classics, feel free to attend either the full day or only this public lecture at 5pm.

Wertenbaker's translations include:

The Thebans by Sophocles (1992)
Hecuba by Euripides (2001) (radio)
Hippolytus by Euripides (2009)
Phèdre by Jean Racine (2009)
Elektra by Sophocles (2010 & 2012)
Antigone by Sophocles (2011)