Murray Edwards College Huntingdon Road Cambridge CB3 0DF United Kingdom
John Guthrie graduated in 1974 from the University of Western Australia before studying at Cambridge for his PhD, which examined the plays by Lenz and Büchner. He joined the German Department and Murray Edwards College (formerly New Hall) in 1984.
German literature, thought and culture since the eighteenth century; translation.
Anglo-German literary relations in the long eighteenth century; translation and the role of literary periodicals.
German drama and theatre of the eighteenth century; the reception of English literture in Germany; productions of the classics on the German stage; reception of German drama in Britain.
Some recent and forthcoming publications:
Books: Friedrich Schiller: Fiesco’s Conspiracy at Genoa. Translated by Flora Kimmich, with an Introduction and Notes by John Guthrie (Cambridge: Open Books Publishers, 2015). Also as an eBook.
Alexander Pope: Epilog zu den Satiren: Dialog I; in der ungedruckten Übertragung von Jacob Michael Reinhold Lenz sowie im Anhang der ersten deutschen Übersetzung von Johann Jakob Dusch / hrsg. von John Guthrie. Kleines Archiv des 18. Jahrhunderts, 46 (St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag, 2015) [First edition from the mss. of a German translation of a major poem by Alexander Pope, with commentary and notes].
Articles: ‘Lenz, Pope and Satire’. Forthcoming.
‘Büchners Dantons Tod im englischen Theater.’ Milan Büchner Conference Proceedings. In: Jahrbuch für Internationale Germanistik (Frankfurt etc., Peter Lang, 2015), pp. 81-95.
‘Eighteenth-Century German Translations of Pope’s Poetry’. In: Publications of the English Goethe Society 82 (2013): 67-84.
‘Music, text and stage. Peter Stein’s production of Goethe’s Faust.’ In: Music in Goethe’s Faust. Goethe’s Faust in Music, ed. Lorraine Byrne Bodley, Florain Krobb and Wolfgang Marx, forthcoming.
‘Schubarts Ästhetik des Dramas. Ein Betirag zur Shakespeare-Rezeption im Deutschland des 18. Jahrhunderts’. In: C. F. D. Schubart. Das Werk. Ed. Barbara Potthast and Stefan Knödler, Winter Verlag Heidelberg, forthcoming 2015.
