Greek Tragedy: Three Plays
Antigone; Medea; Bacchae
$29.41
- Paperback
160 pages
- Release Date
3 October 2005
Summary
Three of the most famous tragedies from Ancient Greece, all featuring female protagonists - in modern, much-performed translations.
This volume, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic Collections series, contains:
Antigone by Sophocles, translated by Marianne McDonald. The first great ‘resistance’ drama, and perhaps the definitive Greek tragedy.
Bacchae by Euripides, translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael. The story of revenge by the h…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781854598479 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1854598473 |
| Author: | Sophocles, Euripides |
| Publisher: | Nick Hern Books |
| Imprint: | Nick Hern Books |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 160 |
| Release Date: | 3 October 2005 |
| Weight: | 174g |
| Dimensions: | 195mm x 130mm x 10mm |
| Series: | NHB Classic Plays |
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Sophocles
Euripides (c. 480-406 BC) was, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens.Sophocles (c.496–405 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. Of his more than 120 plays, only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus.
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