Word: bernards
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...Western narrative since Homer. The six years he spent translating the Odyssey involved long, grinding sessions with Greek lexicons and his own imagination, engaged in a "tug-of-war between ancient Greek words and their modern English equivalents." He passed versions of his work around to trusted colleagues, particularly Bernard Knox, who taught him more than 40 years ago at Yale and whose introduction to the new Odyssey is marvelously informative. Fagles reworked and revised some passages more than 20 times. His labors now ended, Fagles pronounces himself "bereft" at leaving Homer's world. He believes, against considerable scholarly dissent...
...With reporting by Bernard Baumohl and Stacy Perman/New York
...Reported by Sam Allis/Boston with Bernard Baumohl/New York
While all these characters go about their 19th-century business of leading rich British lives and seducing each other's spouses left and right, in the alternating scenes another, modern-day drama is underway in the same house. Two academics, Hannah Jarvis (Kandis Chappell) and Bernard Nightingale (Terence Caza), are busy combing through the library looking for evidence about why Byron left England in such a god-awful hurry, how the tutor Septimus may have been involved, the identity of the rent-a-hermit, and who, exactly, Ezra Chater was. As they work through these various literary-historical mysteries, they...
Terrence Caza is blusteringly appealing as the sexist, willful Bernard Nightingale, who goes to the press with his theories about Byron, rather than publishing in an academic journal. Nightingale's character is a bit of an anachronism, and makes the play seem to be set in the 1980's, rather than the present day, as the mention of quarks and other such scientific developments would imply...