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Works Inspired By The Odyssey
This Page is a List of Works of Art that are inspired by, transmute or in any way relate to the Odyssey - please add to it as you see fit, in order to continue to inspire, deepen and further our knowledge of the poem.
The Penelopiad - Margaret Attwood (Attwood's novel was also performed as a stage show by the RSC, directed by Josette Bushell Mingo).
I Speak Because I Can - the title track of Laura Marling's 2010 album is a love story from Penelope's perspective.
The Lost Books of The Odyssey - Zachary Mason (a 2010 novel - a link to an article about the novel is here).
Ulysses a book by James Joyce.
2001: A Space Odyssey which is a film by Stanley Kubrick.
21 novels of the "Aubrey/Maturin" series by Patrick O'Brian (including "Master and Commander"). No. 16 is "The Wine-Dark Sea"
"Pénélope" opera in 3 acts by Gabriel Fauré, libretto by Fauchois. Première: Monte Carlo 1913
"Ithaca" by C.P.Cavafy, a modern(ish) Greek poet. An incredibly beautiful poem.
Penelope - a play by the (brilliant!) Enda Walsh - which was at Edinburgh last year - and will be at the Hampstead Theatre Feb 2011 - anyone want to check it out??!!!
il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (The Return of Ulysses) Opera by Monteverdi. (Ulysses is, as you know, the Roman version of the name Odysseus)
"Circe" - a poem by Carol Ann Duffy (in The World's Wife)
"O brother, where art thou?" Joel Cohen film 2000
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"Do'h, brother where art thou?" The Simpson's; Series 13 Episode 14 'Tales from the Public Domain.' 2002
Calypso - a song by Suzanne Vega
Lost Books of the Odyssey - Zachary Mason
Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (The last line has been appropriated for the London Olympics: "To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield".....)
The Penelopiad - Margaret Attwood (Attwood's novel was also performed as a stage show by the RSC, directed by Josette Bushell Mingo).
I Speak Because I Can - the title track of Laura Marling's 2010 album is a love story from Penelope's perspective.
The Lost Books of The Odyssey - Zachary Mason (a 2010 novel - a link to an article about the novel is here).
Ulysses a book by James Joyce.
2001: A Space Odyssey which is a film by Stanley Kubrick.
21 novels of the "Aubrey/Maturin" series by Patrick O'Brian (including "Master and Commander"). No. 16 is "The Wine-Dark Sea"
"Pénélope" opera in 3 acts by Gabriel Fauré, libretto by Fauchois. Première: Monte Carlo 1913
"Ithaca" by C.P.Cavafy, a modern(ish) Greek poet. An incredibly beautiful poem.
Penelope - a play by the (brilliant!) Enda Walsh - which was at Edinburgh last year - and will be at the Hampstead Theatre Feb 2011 - anyone want to check it out??!!!
il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria (The Return of Ulysses) Opera by Monteverdi. (Ulysses is, as you know, the Roman version of the name Odysseus)
"Circe" - a poem by Carol Ann Duffy (in The World's Wife)
"O brother, where art thou?" Joel Cohen film 2000
and
"Do'h, brother where art thou?" The Simpson's; Series 13 Episode 14 'Tales from the Public Domain.' 2002
Calypso - a song by Suzanne Vega
The Wizard of Oz by Frank L. Baum
Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier
Ulysses by Alfred, Lord Tennyson (The last line has been appropriated for the London Olympics: "To strive, to seek, to find and not to yield".....)
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Again, I don't seem to be able to edit this page. But below are some further works, the first my own ideas, the others works which were listed in TC's critical writings, but not here. Jay x
Christopher Logue, ongoing translation of Homer’s Illiad, particularly ‘Cold Calls’ volume (not inspired by the Odyssey but the Illiad, still very useful example of contemporary treatment/interpretation of Homeric themes and verse). Sophocles, Philoctetes (also based more on the Illiad than the Odyssey in terms of plot, but clearly informed by the dramatist’s knowledge of the second epic, and a very interesting take on the character of Odysseus – one of the main characters in this play – as an unreliable, heartless trickster who persuades a young man to perform shameful actions) Calderon, Love, The Supreme Enchantment Calderon, Sorcercies of Sin Goethe, planned and commenced a romantic tragedy about Odysseus and Nausicaa Shakespeare, Twelfth Night TS Eliot, The Waste Land, particularly ‘Death By Water’ (early uncut draft) |
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