Paul Roche

This article is about the English poet. For the Irish hurler, see Paul Roche (hurler).

Donald Robert Paul Roche (26 September 1916 – 30 October 2007) was a British poet, novelist, and professor of English, a critically acclaimed translator of Greek and Latin classics, notably the works of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Sappho, and Plautus. Born in Mussoorie, India, Roche was an associate of the Bloomsbury group, especially of painter Duncan Grant, whom he met in the summer of 1946 and who lived with Roche and his family until Grant's death in 1978.

He used his translation of Sophocles', Oedipus the King, to write a screenplay for a film version of the work released in 1968 with Christopher Plummer in the title role. Roche played a small role in the Greek chorus.^[1]

References

1. ^ Paul Roche at the Internet Movie Database

External links

• New York Times obituary
• Obituary of Paul Roche, The Daily Telegraph, 8 November 2007

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Name	Roche, Paul
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Date of birth	26 September 1916
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Date of death	30 October 2007
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