Elektra: Play - Couverture souple

Sophocles

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0811211142 ISBN 13 : 9780811211147

Editeur : New Directions Publishing Corporation, 1990

Synopsis

Early in 1949, while under indictment for treason and hospitalized by court order at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., Ezra Pound collaborated with Rudd Fleming, a professor at the University of Maryland, on a new version of Sophokles' Elektra. Pound's decision to focus on this play of imprisonment and justice at such a crucial juncture in his own life and art throws both the play and the poet into stark and ironic relief. Rediscovered and finally produced to great acclaim in 1987 by New York's Classic Stage Company, the Pound/Fleming translation of Elektra is now available in an acting edition prepared by the CSC Repertory's artistic director. Carey Perloff says of the translation: "It is energetic, slightly outrageous, and very American .... It's very chiseled, very spare, not flowing or lyrical. It's sort of 'cowboy.' But line for line, it is Sophokles." Ms. Perloff also gives suggestions for staging and casting which will be invaluable to other producers and directors.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

New Directions has been the primary publisher of Ezra Pound in the U.S. since the founding of the press when James Laughlin published New Directions in Prose and Poetry 1936. That year Pound was fifty-one. In Laughlin's first letter to Pound, he wrote: "Expect, please, no fireworks. I am bourgeois-born (Pittsburgh); have never missed a meal. . . . But full of 'noble caring' for something as inconceivable as the future of decent letters in the US." Little did Pound know that into the twenty-first century the fireworks would keep exploding as readers continue to find his books relevant and meaningful.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Date d'édition: 1990
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0811211142
• ISBN 13: 9780811211147
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 116
• Éditeur: Perloff Carey
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible