Tony Harrison's is one of the most original voices in postwar English poetry. Born into the nonliterary world of the British working class, he has through his work as a poet and translator developed a technical skill of extraordinary brilliance, wit,...

Richard Eyre, the former artistic director of the Royal National Theatre, has said of that his is the "one name that seems to me to justify the claim that there is an unbroken tradition in the British theatre going back to the fifteenth century" (Tony...

Tony Harrison and the Holocaust. By ANTHONY ROWLAND. (Liverpool English Texts and Studies, 39) Liverpool: Liverpool University Press. 2001. x+326 pp. 32.95 [pounds sterling] (pbk 14.95 [pounds sterling]) ISBN 0-85323-506-6 (pbk 0-85323-516-3). The biggest problem with Anthony Rowland's book is its title....

English poet Tony Harrison is considered a strong contender for the 1993 Whitbread prize for poetry. Harrison's work is public poetry, and it often appears in modern media. His 'The Gaze of Gorgon' was conceived for television. FOR the first time in almost...

Alceste, the aptly named title character in "The Misanthrope," is a man possessed.So is Belgian avant-garde director Ivo van Hove _ but in a good way. Van Hove has burnished an iconoclastic reputation at off-Broadway's New York Theatre Workshop, deconstructing and turning inside-out the works...

[In the following essay, Huk discusses Harrison's adaptations of classical drama and traces how the poet brings a new life and a contemporary edge to the Greek classics.]

[In the following essay, Woodcock discusses the anger found in Harrison's poetry and asserts that its source is Harrison's “own background … and ＼his］ sense of identity in relation to the marginalisation of working-class experience by dominant middle-class culture.”]

[In the following essay, Rutter analyzes Harrison's The Labourers of Herakles and asserts that “To this female spectator in the audience Harrison's theatrical practice seems progressively at odds with his official profeminism.”]