The Suppliants - Couverture rigide

Aeschylus

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0691068674 ISBN 13 : 9780691068671

Editeur : Princeton University Press, 1991

Synopsis

An extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage, The Suppliants is surprising both for its exotic color and for its forceful enactment of the primal struggle between male and female, lust and terror, brutality and cunning. In his translation of this ancient Greek drama, Peter Burian introduces a new generation of readers to a powerful work of Aeschylus' later years. He conveys the strength and daring of Aeschylus' language in the idiom of our own time, while respecting what is essentially classical in this dramatist's art: the rigor of the formal constraint with which he compresses high emotion to the bursting point. The Suppliants, which is the first and only surviving part of a trilogy, does not conform to our expectations of Greek drama in that it has neither hero, nor downfall, nor tragic conclusion. Instead the play portrays unresolved conflicts of sexuality, love, and emotional maturity. These distinctly modern themes come alive in a translation that re-creates the psychological immediacy as well as the dramatic tension of this ancient work.

Originally published in 1991.

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A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

Aeschylus the father of tragedy and one of the three great ancient Greek tragedians. Writing seventy to ninety plays in his life time only a few remain to be read today. With his death his tragedies became the only ones that can be restaged in following competitions. Aeschylus gravestone reads Beneath this stone lies Aeschylus, son of Euphorion, the Athenian, who perished in the wheat-bearing land of Gela; of his noble prowess the grove of Marathon can speak, and the long-haired Persian knows it well.

Présentation de l'éditeur

Aeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. 'The Suppliants' tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must flee to escape enforced marriages.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Princeton University Press
• Date d'édition: 1991
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0691068674
• ISBN 13: 9780691068671
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 88
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• Personne responsable: non disponible