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Howard Rubenstein (born 1931) is an American physician, playwright and translator of classical Greek drama.〔(Howard Rubenstein in Doolee.com The Playwrights Database )〕 == Life and works == Rubenstein was born in Chicago and attended Lake View High School. He was a magna cum laude graduate of Carleton College, where he was elected to Phi Beta Kappa and Sigma Xi and won the Noyes Prize for excellence in Greek studies. He received his MD degree from Harvard Medical School in 1957 and was a physician for over 40 years, most of them at Harvard University. For several years, he was a medical consultant for the State of California. Now retired from the practice of medicine, he lives with his wife Judy in San Diego, where he writes and enjoys his grandchildren. He has published translations of ''Agamemnon''〔Fiona Macintosh, Pantelis Michelakis, Edith Hall, and Oliver Taplin, ''Agamemnon in Performance 458 BC to AD 2004'', Oxford University Press, USA. 2006 pp.416, 430 ISBN 0-19-926351-5 ISBN 978-0199263516〕 by Aeschylus and ''The Trojan Women'' 〔J. Michael Walton, ''Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English'', Cambridge University Press, 2006 ISBN 978-0-521-86110-6 ISBN 0521861101〕 by Euripides. His translations have been praised by the leading classical scholars P. E. Easterling, Regius Professor, Cambridge, and Oliver Taplin, Regius Professor, Oxford. The production of his adaptation of The Trojan Women won more Billie Awards (San Diego Playbill) than any other play of the 2000-1 San Diego theater season. He has also published stage adaptations of Jean Racine's Britannicus〔Mark Gabrish Conlon, "Britannicus: Neo-Classical Masterpiece," ''Zengers Newsmagazine'', 2008 ()〕 and the 20th century Yiddish dramatic poem, The Golem,〔ArtsDig National Arts Digest, "The World Premiere of The Golem: Man of Earth" ()〕 by H. Leivick. He has also written an historical comic tragedy ''Tony and Cleo''〔Jean Lowerison, "An American classic, two satires and ‘Tony & Cleo’", ''GayLesbianTimes'', 14 Feb. 2008 ()〕〔Frankie Moran, "Tony and Cleo at 6th @ Penn Theatre", ''San Diego Arts'' ()〕 and an epic poem in free verse based upon the books of Maccabees.〔"Maccabee: an Epic in Free Verse", (Book Review), ''Wisconsin Bookwatch'', January 1, 2005 ()〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Howard Rubenstein (physician)」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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