George Buchanan: Poet and Dramatist [Hardcover]

Educated in Scotland and France, George Buchanan became one of the most influential writers of 16th century Europe. Writing in the lingua franca of his time - Classical Latin - he was to be hailed internationally as 'easily the prince of poets'. Here fifteen scholars, from many countries, analyse his writings, his creative use of ancient texts for contemporary purposes, and his impact on the culture of Scotland and of Europe - not least in the spheres of tragedy and music.Buchanan's poetic achievement - Philip Ford'Redundant' epithets in Buchanan's Pastorals - Robert CummingsLiterary metamorphosis in Buchanan's De Sphaera - Emma GeeThe writing of memory in George Buchanan's Iusta - Nathalie Catellani-DufreneHomo exsul as the lyric persona in Buchanan's Psalms - Elwira BuszewiczThe Heavens are Telling: a Psalm-paraphrase-poem analysed - Roger GreenThe historical importance of Jean Servin's settings of Buchanan's Psalm Paraphrases - James PorterBuchanan's Psalms and the musical settings by Statius Olthof - Margaret DuncumbBuchanan's tragedies and contemporary dramatic theory - Giacomo CardinaliBiblical inspiration in Buchanan's tragedies - Carine FerradouBuchanan and the poetics of borrowing in the Latin translation of Euripides' Medea - Jean-Frederic Chevalier'Translating' Buchanan - Ronnie JackDrama out of the 'closet': Buchanan on stage - Jamie Reid Baxter'Return, Buchanan!' The Letter of Walter Dennistoun to George Buchanan and Buchanan's Reply - Jack MacQueenDry Bones of Contention? Picking apart Buchanan's Psalms - Roger GreenGeorge Buchanan's Half Millennium - Robert Crawford