A two-day workshop held in Oxford and Paris with professional actors, exploring early modern translations of Sophocles’ Oedipus Tyrannus and the Electra-Orestes myth. The workshop examined contamination as a key analytical tool to understand how translations from this period function within interconnected and evolving literary networks.

• Director & Dramaturg: Ezra Baudou.
• Dramaturg & Translation Expert: Giovanna Di Martino.
• Performance Space: Oxford Friends Meeting House,  43 St Giles', Oxford OX1 3L; Université Sorbonne Paris Nord, 93430 Villetaneuse, France
• Texts:
  • Ancient Scripts: Aeschylus, Agamemnon and Choephoroi; Sophocles, Electra and Oedipus Tyrannus; Euripides, Electra.
  • Early Modern Scripts:
    • Hilaire Bernard de Requeleyne baron de Longepierre, Electre (1702).
    • Pièrre Brumoy, Electre, tragédie de Sophocle (1730).
    • Voltaire, Oreste (1750).
    • Vittorio Alfieri, Oreste (1783).
    • James Thomson, Agamemnon (1738).
    • Vittorio Alfieri, Agamennone (1783).
    • Dryden & Lee, Oedipus, a Tragedy (1679).
    • Pièrre Brumoy, Œdipe, tragédie de Sophocle (1730).
    • Voltaire, Œdipe, tragédie (1719).
• Funding: Supported by Leventis Foundation, EU Horizon 2020 (Marie Sklodowska-Curie), and APGRD.
• Research Output:

Videos of the workshop are available, watch: Contamination in practice on YouTube

A video of the joint paper by Ezra Baudou, Giovanna Di Martino and Cécile Dudouyt is available, watch: Early Modern Electras and Oedipus (YouTube)