Six Greek Tragedies: Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 041377256X ISBN 13 : 9780413772565

Editeur : Methuen Drama, 2002

Synopsis

A single-volume edition of the major Greek tragedies


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In a period of sixty-six years, three Athenian playwrights produced a series of tragedies which became a touchstone for drama for the next two and a half thousand years. The six plays in this volume include Aeschylus' Persians (472 BC), the earliest surviving Greek tragedy and only surviving 'history' play; his Prometheus Bound, perhaps the most deeply mythological of all tragedies, presenting an archetype of the human condition; Sophocles' Women of Trachis, a deeply poignant piece, portraying Heracles' death through his wife's mistake; his strange Philoctetes, which presents a fascinating moral debate and a young man's realisation of the importance of loyalty to his own ideals; Euripides' Trojan Women, the greatest anti-war play ever written; and his intangible Bacchae, a play full of paradoxes which functions at many different levels.

The volume is edited and introduced by Marianne McDonald, Professor of Theatre and Classics, University of California, San Diego, and J. Michael Walton, Professor of Drama at the University of Hull.
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A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Kenneth McLeish studied Classics and Music at Worcester College, Oxford. Once a full-time translator, author and dramatist, he published extensively including The Good Reading Guide, Shakespeare's People, The Theatre of Aristophanes, Companion to the Arts in the Twentieth Century, Myth, The Listener's Guide to Classical Music and Crucial Classics (both with Valerie McLeish) and The Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought (as general editor).
His original plays and his translations - from ancient Greek drama, as well as from Strindberg, Ibsen Moliere and Strindberg - have been widely performed, most notably by the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Methuen Drama
• Date d'édition: 2002
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 041377256X
• ISBN 13: 9780413772565
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 320
• Éditeur: Walton J. Michael
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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