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Tony Harrison, the Glossary

Tony Harrison (born 30 April 1937) is an English poet, translator and playwright.^[1]

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Ancient Greek literature

Ancient Greek literature is literature written in the Ancient Greek language from the earliest texts until the time of the Byzantine Empire.

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Aristophanes

Aristophanes (Ἀριστοφάνης) was an Ancient Greek comic playwright from Athens and a poet of Old Attic Comedy.

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BBC

The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) is a British public service broadcaster headquartered at Broadcasting House in London, England.

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BBC One

BBC One is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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BBC Two

BBC Two is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by the BBC.

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Bedřich Smetana (2 March 1824 – 12 May 1884) was a Czech composer who pioneered the development of a musical style that became closely identified with his people's aspirations to a cultural and political "revival".

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Beeston, Leeds

Beeston is a suburb of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England located on a hill about 2 miles (3 km) south of the city centre.

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Bohdan Zadura

Bohdan Zadura (born 18 February 1945 in Puławy) is a Polish poet, translator and literary critic.

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Bolsheviks

The Bolsheviks (italic,; from большинство,, 'majority'), led by Vladimir Lenin, were a far-left faction of the Marxist Russian Social Democratic Labour Party (RSDLP) which split with the Mensheviks at the Second Party Congress in 1903.

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Cairns Craig

Robert Cairns Craig (born 16 February 1949) is a Scottish literary scholar, specialising in Scottish and modernist literature.

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Cencrastus

Cencrastus was a magazine devoted to Scottish and international literature, arts and affairs, founded after the Referendum of 1979 by students, mainly of Scottish literature at Edinburgh University, and with support from Cairns Craig, then a lecturer in the English Department, with the express intention of perpetuating the devolution debate.

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Channel 4

Channel 4 is a British free-to-air public broadcast television channel owned and operated by Channel Four Television Corporation.

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Conservative Party (UK)

The Conservative and Unionist Party, commonly the Conservative Party and colloquially known as the Tories, is one of the two main political parties in the United Kingdom, along with the Labour Party.

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Corfu

Corfu or Kerkyra (Kérkyra) is a Greek island in the Ionian Sea, of the Ionian Islands, and, including its small satellite islands, forms the margin of the nation's northwestern frontier with Albania.

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Costa Book Awards

The Costa Book Awards were a set of annual literary awards recognising English-language books by writers based in UK and Ireland.

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County Borough of Leeds

The County Borough of Leeds, and its predecessor, the Municipal Borough of Leeds, was a local government district in the West Riding of Yorkshire, England, from 1835 to 1974.

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David Cohen Prize

The David Cohen Prize for Literature (est. 1993) is a British literary award given to a writer, novelist, short-story writer, poet, essayist or dramatist in recognition of an entire body of work, written in the English language.

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Early day motion

In the Westminster parliamentary system, an early day motion (EDM) is a motion, expressed as a single sentence, tabled by a member of Parliament, which the Government (in charge of parliamentary business) has not yet scheduled for debate.

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Edith Hall

Edith Hall, (born 1959) is a British scholar of classics, specialising in ancient Greek literature and cultural history, and professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at Durham University.

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European Prize for Literature

European Prize for Literature (Prix Européen de Littérature) is a European-wide literary award sponsored by the city of Strasbourg with support from the Ministry of Foreign and European Affairs (France).

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Film-poem

The film-poem (also called the poetic avant-garde film, verse-film or verse-documentary or film poem without the hyphen) is a label first applied to American avant-garde films released after World War II.

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Fram (play)

Fram (Norwegian for Forward) is a 2008 play by Tony Harrison.

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Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize

The Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize is a British literary prize established in 1963 in tribute to Geoffrey Faber, founder and first Chairman of the publisher Faber & Faber.

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George Cukor

George Dewey Cukor (July 7, 1899 – January 24, 1983) was an American film director and producer.

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Gerald Howarth

Sir James Gerald Douglas Howarth (born 12 September 1947) is a British Conservative Party politician.

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Harrison Birtwistle

Sir Harrison Birtwistle (15 July 1934 – 18 April 2022) was an English composer of contemporary classical music best known for his operas, often based on mythological subjects.

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Heinrich Heine

Christian Johann Heinrich Heine (born Harry Heine; 13 December 1797 – 17 February 1856) was a German poet, writer and literary critic.

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Holbeck

Holbeck is an inner city area of Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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The Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) was the regulatory body in the United Kingdom for commercial television (ITV and Channel 4 and limited satellite television regulation – cable television was the responsibility of the Cable Authority) – and commercial and independent radio broadcasts.

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Iraq War

The Iraq War, sometimes called the Second Persian Gulf War, or Second Gulf War was a protracted armed conflict in Iraq from 2003 to 2011. It began with the invasion of Iraq by the United States-led coalition that overthrew the Ba'athist government of Saddam Hussein. The conflict continued for much of the next decade as an insurgency emerged to oppose the coalition forces and the post-invasion Iraqi government.

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James Simmons (poet)

James Stewart Alexander Simmons (1933–2001) was a poet, literary critic and songwriter from Derry, Northern Ireland.

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Jean Racine

Jean-Baptiste Racine (22 December 1639 – 21 April 1699) was a French dramatist, one of the three great playwrights of 17th-century France, along with Molière and Corneille as well as an important literary figure in the Western tradition and world literature.

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Jocelyn Herbert

Jocelyn Herbert RDI (22 February 1917 – 6 May 2003) was a British stage designer.

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Le roi s'amuse

Le roi s'amuse (literally, The King Amuses Himself or The King Has Fun) is a French play in five acts written by Victor Hugo.

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Leeds

Leeds is a city in West Yorkshire, England.

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Leeds Grammar School

Leeds Grammar School was an independent school founded 1552 in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England. Tony Harrison and Leeds Grammar School are people educated at Leeds Grammar School.

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Lethe

In Greek mythology, Lethe (Ancient Greek: Λήθη Lḗthē), also referred to as Lesmosyne, was one of the rivers of the underworld of Hades.

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Lysistrata

Lysistrata (or; Attic Greek: Λυσιστράτη, Lysistrátē) is an ancient Greek comedy by Aristophanes, originally performed in classical Athens in 411 BCE.

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Melvyn Bragg

Melvyn Bragg, Baron Bragg, (born 6 October 1939) is an English broadcaster, author and parliamentarian. Tony Harrison and Melvyn Bragg are Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature.

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Member of Parliament (United Kingdom)

In the United Kingdom, a member of Parliament (MP) is an individual elected to serve in the House of Commons, the lower house of the Parliament of the United Kingdom.

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Metropolitan Opera

The Metropolitan Opera (commonly known as the Met) is an American opera company based in New York City, currently resident at the Metropolitan Opera House at Lincoln Center, situated on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.

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Middle English

Middle English (abbreviated to ME) is a form of the English language that was spoken after the Norman Conquest of 1066, until the late 15th century.

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Molière

Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière, was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world literature.

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Mystery play

Mystery plays and miracle plays (they are distinguished as two different forms although the terms are often used interchangeably) are among the earliest formally developed plays in medieval Europe.

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Natural World (TV series)

Natural World is a strand of British wildlife documentary programmes broadcast on BBC Two and BBC Two HD and regarded by the BBC as its flagship natural history series.

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Norman Buchan

Norman Findlay Buchan (27 October 1922 – 23 October 1990) was a Labour Party politician, who was on the left-wing of the party, and represented the West Renfrewshire seat from 1964 until 1983 and the Paisley South seat from 1983 until his death in 1990.

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Northern England

Northern England, or the North of England, is a region that forms the northern part of England and mainly corresponds to the historic counties of Cheshire, Cumberland, Durham, Lancashire, Northumberland, Westmorland and Yorkshire.

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Northern Rock Foundation

Northern Rock Foundation was an independent charity and company limited by guarantee in the United Kingdom.

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Oresteia

The Oresteia (Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end of the curse on the House of Atreus and the pacification of the Furies (also called Erinyes or Eumenides).

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Oxford Brookes University

Oxford Brookes University (OBU; formerly known as Oxford Polytechnic) is a public university in Oxford, England.

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PEN Pinter Prize

The PEN Pinter Prize and the Pinter International Writer of Courage Award both comprise an annual literary award launched in 2009 by English PEN in honour of the late Nobel Literature Prize-winning playwright Harold Pinter, who had been a Vice President of English PEN and an active member of the International PEN Writers in Prison Committee (WiPC).

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Peter Symes

Peter J. Symes (born 1957) is an Australian researcher into paper money.

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Phèdre

Phèdre (originally Phèdre et Hippolyte) is a French dramatic tragedy in five acts written in alexandrine verse by Jean Racine, first performed in 1677 at the theatre of the Hôtel de Bourgogne in Paris.

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Polish language

Polish (język polski,, polszczyzna or simply polski) is a West Slavic language of the Lechitic group within the Indo-European language family written in the Latin script.

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Politics, Religion & Ideology

Politics, Religion & Ideology is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering research on the politics of illiberal ideologies, including the impact of religious radicalism.

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Popescu Prize

The Popescu Prize is a biennial poetry award established in 1983.

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Prometheus (1998 film)

Prometheus is a 1998 film-poem created by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison, starring Micheal Feast in the role of Hermes.

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Richard Eyre

Sir Richard Charles Hastings Eyre (born 28 March 1943) is an English film, theatre, television and opera director.

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Roger Griffin

Roger David Griffin (born 31 January 1948) is a British professor of modern history and political theorist at Oxford Brookes University, England.

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Rome

Rome (Italian and Roma) is the capital city of Italy.

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Royal National Theatre

The Royal National Theatre of Great Britain, commonly known as the National Theatre (NT) within the UK and as the National Theatre of Great Britain internationally, is a performing arts venue and associated theatre company located in London, England.

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Temple of Artemis, Corfu

The Temple of Artemis is an Archaic Greek temple in Corfu, Greece, built in around 580 BC in the ancient city of Korkyra (or Corcyra), now called Corfu.

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The Bartered Bride

The Bartered Bride (Prodaná nevěsta, The Sold Bride) is a comic opera in three acts by the Czech composer Bedřich Smetana, to a libretto by Karel Sabina.

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The Blasphemers' Banquet

The Blasphemers' Banquet is a film-poem created in 1989 by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison which examines censorship arising from religious issues.

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The Blue Bird (1976 film)

The Blue Bird is a 1976 American-Soviet children's fantasy film directed by George Cukor.

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The Gaze of the Gorgon

The Gaze of the Gorgon is a film-poem created in 1992 by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison which examines the politics of conflict in the 20th century using the Gorgon and her petrifying gaze as a metaphor for the actions of the elites during wars and other crises and the muted response and apathy these traumatic events generate among the masses seemingly petrified by modern Gorgons gazing at them from pediments constructed by the elites.

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The Guardian

The Guardian is a British daily newspaper.

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The Labourers of Herakles

The Labourers of Herakles is a 1995 play created by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison.

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The Misanthrope

The Misanthrope, or the Cantankerous Lover (Le Misanthrope ou l'Atrabilaire amoureux) is a 17th-century comedy of manners in verse written by Molière.

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The Mysteries

The Mysteries is a version of the medieval English mystery plays first presented at London's National Theatre in 1977.

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The Old Vic

The Old Vic is a 1,000-seat, not-for-profit producing theatre in Waterloo, London, England.

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The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus

The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus is a 1990 play by English poet and playwright Tony Harrison.

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Tragedy

Tragedy (from the τραγῳδία, tragōidia) is a genre of drama based on human suffering and, mainly, the terrible or sorrowful events that befall a main character or cast of characters.

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University of Leeds

The University of Leeds is a public research university in Leeds, West Yorkshire, England.

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V (poem)

"V" (sometimes styled "v.") is a poem by Tony Harrison written in 1985.

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Victor Hugo

Victor-Marie Hugo, vicomte Hugo (26 February 1802 – 22 May 1885), sometimes nicknamed the Ocean Man, was a French Romantic writer and politician.

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Wakefield Mystery Plays

The Wakefield or Towneley Mystery Plays are a series of thirty-two mystery plays based on the Bible most likely performed around the Feast of Corpus Christi probably in the town of Wakefield, England during the Late Middle Ages until 1576.

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Wilhelm II

Wilhelm II (Friedrich Wilhelm Viktor Albert; 27 January 18594 June 1941) was the last German Emperor and King of Prussia from 1888 until his abdication in 1918, which marked the end of the German Empire as well as the Hohenzollern dynasty's 300-year rule of Prussia.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tony_Harrison

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, PEN Pinter Prize, Peter Symes, Phèdre, Polish language, Politics, Religion & Ideology, Popescu Prize, Prometheus (1998 film), Richard Eyre, Roger Griffin, Rome, Royal National Theatre, Temple of Artemis, Corfu, The Bartered Bride, The Blasphemers' Banquet, The Blue Bird (1976 film), The Gaze of the Gorgon, The Guardian, The Labourers of Herakles, The Misanthrope, The Mysteries, The Old Vic, The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus, Tragedy, University of Leeds, V (poem), Victor Hugo, Wakefield Mystery Plays, Wilhelm II, Yan Tan Tethera (opera), York Mystery Plays, 1984–1985 United Kingdom miners' strike.

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