Professor Edith Hall
Professor of Classics
Tel +44 (0)20 7848 2472
E-mail edith.hall@kcl.ac.uk
Address Department of Classics & Centre for Hellenic Studies
King's College London
B9, North Wing
Strand
London WC2R 2LS
Biography
Since being awarded the Hellenic Foundation Prize for her Oxford doctorate (1988), Edith has held posts at Cambridge, Oxford, Durham and London Universities. She has published twenty books. She is Co-Founder and Consultant Director of the Archive of Performances of Greek & Roman Drama at Oxford and Chairman of the Gilbert Murray Trust. She has won funding for research from the AHRB, the AHRC, the Leverhulme Trust, the British Academy, the Center for Hellenic Studies in Washington, and has just been awarded a Humboldt Research Prize. She appears regularly on BBC Radio, and has acted as consultant to professional productions of ancient drama at the Royal Shakespeare Company, the National Theatre, Northern Broadsides, Theaterkombinat and other professional companies. Her personal website contains further information: www.edithhall.co.uk.
Research Interests
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Ancient Greek Social and Intellectual History
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Ancient Greek literature
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Ancient Greek and Roman Performance Culture
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Tragedy and Comedy
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Ethnicity, gender, and class
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The Reception of ancient Greece and Rome