Howard Rubenstein (physician)

Howard Rubenstein (born 1931) is an American physician, playwright and translator of classical Greek drama.

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 by Aeschylus and The Trojan Women 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 and the 20th century Yiddish dramatic poem, The Golem, by H. Leivick.

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