Stealing Fire: Political Re-Appropriation of Verse Drama in Tony Harrison’s Prometheus and Liz Lochhead’s Medea

Authors

  • Harriet MacMillan University of Edinburgh

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.22.1474

Abstract

Critical opinion of verse drama has long considered it to be an outdated and classist form. Yet in the early 21st century, certain dramatists have provided examples of how the form may be subverted not only to expose its privileged history but to provide a context for new lines of ideological enquiry. This article examines how verse drama has been re-appropriated to serve as a vehicle for socialist and feminist concerns in Liz Lochhead's Medea and Tony Harrison's Prometheus.

Author Biography

  • Harriet MacMillan, University of Edinburgh
    Harriet is an alumna of the Universities of Edinburgh and Oxford. Her doctoral research focuses on feminist rewritings of mythology within the context of the Canongate Myths publishing project. She is also a published writer of poetry and prose and a storyteller for children.
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Published

30-May-2016

Issue

No. 22 (2016): Ideological Conflict

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“Stealing Fire: Political Re-Appropriation of Verse Drama in Tony Harrison’s Prometheus and Liz Lochhead’s Medea”. 2016. FORUM: University of Edinburgh Postgraduate Journal of Culture & The Arts, no. 22 (May). https://doi.org/10.2218/forum.22.1474.