The Iphigenia Plays
New Verse Translations
$43.31
- Paperback
184 pages
- Release Date
15 June 2018
Summary
At the heart of Iphigenia’s enduring story are an ambitious, opportunistic, and indecisive leader and the daughter whose life he is willing to sacrifice. In The Iphigenia Plays, poet Rachel Hadas offers a new generation of readers a graceful, clear, and powerful translation of Euripides’s two spellbinding (and very different) plays drawn from this legend: Iphigenia in Aulis and Iphigenia among the Taurians. Even for readers unfamiliar with Greek mythology or drama, these plays are suspenseful…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780810137233 |
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| ISBN-10: | 0810137232 |
| Author: | Euripides, Rachel Hadas |
| Publisher: | Northwestern University Press |
| Imprint: | Northwestern University Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 184 |
| Release Date: | 15 June 2018 |
| Weight: | 185g |
| Dimensions: | 203mm x 127mm x 15mm |
| Series: | Northwestern World Classics |
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Rachel Hadas’s new translation of the Iphigenia plays carves out its own space among recent translations of Euripides. None of them are quite so vivid, so contemporary, or (above all) so full of poetic interest. For those serious readers of poetry, Hadas’s translation will also stand out as constantly intriguing, inventive, and various.“” - John Talbot, author of Rough Translation: Poems
About The Author
Euripides
Euripides (c. 484-406 B.C.E.) was, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, one of the great tragic dramatists of ancient Greece.Rachel Hadas, professor of English at Rutgers University–Newark, is the author of many books of poetry, essays, and translations, including Questions in the Vestibule (Northwestern, 2016) and Strange Relation: A Memoir of Marriage, Dementia, and Poetry. She is the editor (with Peter Constantine, Edmund Keeley, and Karen Van Dyck) of the anthology The Greek Poets: Homer to the Present.
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