John Galt's Dramas
A Brief Review
- Publisher
- University of Toronto Press
- Initial publish date
- Dec 2024
- Category
- Drama, English, Irish, Scottish, Welsh, General
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eBook
- ISBN
- 9781487582951
- Publish Date
- Apr 2019
- List Price
- $17.95
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Paperback / softback
- ISBN
- 9781487581671
- Publish Date
- Dec 2024
- List Price
- $17.95
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Description
This volume is a biography of the dramas of John Galt, a Scottish novelist, entrepreneur, and social and political commentator. It includes discussion of Galt’s Lady Macbeth, Maddalen, Clytemnestra, Orpheus and The Savoyard, The Mermaid, Athol: a Tragedy, The Betrothment: a Tragedy, and more.
About the author
G.H. NEEDLER, the author of this book, is a native of Ontario, of mingled English and Scotch-Irish ancestry. After graduation at the University of Toronto and extended study in Germany, he became a member of the staff of University College, and was for several years Head of the Department of German. He has published a metrical translation of the The Nibelungenlied and shared in the making of several school text-books. Since becoming Professor emeritus he has edited a volume of letters of Mrs. Jameson to Goethe’s daughter-in-law, which he found in the Weimar Archives. The present book is a by-product of further study in the early Canadian field, particularly John Galt’s writings and his work with the Canada Company, which forms the background for “The Lone Shieling.”