Kenneth McLeish

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Kenneth McLeish


Born
in Glasgow, Scotland, The United Kingdom
October 10, 1940

Died
November 28, 1997

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John Kenneth Tyrrell McLeish, known as Kenneth McLeish was a British writer, playwright and translator. McLeish, "the most widely respected and prolific translator of drama in Britain", translated all the surviving classical Greek plays, most plays by Henrik Ibsen and Georges Feydeau, and individual plays by Plautus, Molière, Alfred Jarry, August Strindberg, Ödön von Horváth and Eugène Labiche. ...more

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“The text contains no literary criticism. I wanted to describe books, not to be clever at their expense.”
Kenneth McLeish, Bloomsbury Good Reading Guide

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