Rosemary E. Bancroft-Marcus

Rosemary E. Bancroft-Marcus (* 20th century ) is a British neo-Greekist .

Bancroft-Marcus first studied Classical Philology at Exeter College , Oxford . After completing her BA , she accepted a grant from the British Council for a one-year study visit to Greece and Crete . In 1978 she was at the University of Oxford in the Department of Medieval and Modern Languages with a dissertation on the Cretan Renaissance poet Georgios Chortatsis the D. Phil. PhD. She now lives as a private scholar and teacher in Oxford and in Rixensart near Brussels and is one of the leading scholars in the field of literature of the Cretan Renaissance. She taught at the Universities of Geneva and Oxford .

Bancroft married the physicist Frederick Barry Marcus in Oxford in 1974.

Fonts (selection)

• Georgios Chortatsis: Plays of the Cretan Renaissance. Edited by Rosemary E. Bancroft-Marcus. 2 vols., Clarendon Press, Oxford 2013–2014, ISBN 0-19-815808-4 .
• A dainty dish to set before a king: Natale Conti and his translation of Athenaeus' Deipnosophistae . In: Athenaeus And His World. Reading Greek Culture in the Roman Empire . Ed. by David Braund and John Wilkins. University of Exeter Press, 2000, ISBN 9780859896610 , pp . 53-76.
• Attitudes to women in the drama of Venetian Crete . In: Women in Italian Renaissance Culture and Society. Edited by Letizia Panizza. Legenda, Oxford, 2000, online , table of contents
• The Cretan Academies and the Imprese of Erotokritos . In: Cretan Studies 3, 1992, 21-45.
• Interludes . In: Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete . Edited by David Holton . Cambridge University Press, 1991, 159-178, abstract
• The Pastoral Mode. In: Literature and Society in Renaissance Crete . Edited by David Holton. Cambridge University Press, 1991, 79-102, abstract
• Women in the Cretan Renaissance (1570-1669) . In: Journal of Modern Greek Studies 1.1, 1983, 19–38, online .
• Literary Cryptograms and the Cretan Academies. In: Byzantine and Modern Greek Studies 8, 1982, 47-76, abstract
• The Editing of Panoria and the Prologue of Apollo . In: Κρητολογία 10/11, 1980, 135-163.
• Georgios Chortatsis and his Works. A critical review. In: Μαντατοφόρος 16 (1980) 13-46, abstract
• Georgios Chortatsis, 16th-century Cretan Playwright: A Critical Study. D. Phil. dissertation, Oxford University, 1978.

Web links

• Lecture: Φαινομενικές μετρικές ιδιομορφίες σε έμμετρα κείμενα της Κρητικής αναγέννησης και οι σχέσεις τους με τα Φραγκοχιώτικα ( Apparent metrical peculiarities in Cretan Renaissance verse and Their relation to the phonetic Latin-script writing system ), contribution to the conference Neograeca Medii Aevi VII - Χαρτογραφώντας τη δημώδη λογοτεχνία (12ος-17ος αι.) , Heraklion, 1. – 4. November 2012, Youtube video (partly in Greek, partly in English)
• University of Birmingham , Center for Byzantine, Ottoman & Modern Greek Studies, Congress: Reimagining the Past Antiquity and Modern Greek Culture , 27. – 28. June 2011: Announcement of the lecture (stating your place of residence): Classical themes and allusions in Veneto-Cretan literature: the role of the local Neoplatonic Academies (PDF; 76 kB), summary of the lecture (PDF; 281 kB)
• University of Crete , Institute of Philology, International Congress 2003: Zητήματα ποιητικής στον Eρωτόκριτο του Kορνάρου : Lecture announcement: O Eρωτόκριτος τοίΓ. Kορνάληη κτωίυ κωλη κωλη Xορτάτση: ομοιότητες και διαφορές ανάμεσα στα δύο αριστουργήματα της κρητικής Aναγέννησης
• 11th International Cretological Congress 2011: Lecture announcement: Georgios Chortatsis: A new bilingual edition of his plays and associated interludes
• demkoutsogiannis.tripod.com: Greek Theater: An Annotated Bibliography of Plays Translated and Essays Written from 1824 to 1994 (summaries of various essays)