A woman of Lemnos : plays and poetry / Maria Lampadaridou Pothou ; edited and with an introduction by Rhoda Helfman Kaufman.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Lampadaridou-Pothou, Maria.

Contributor:

Kaufman, Rhoda Helfman.

Series:

Drama series (Montréal, Québec) ; 20.

Drama series (Montréal, Québec) ; 20

Standardized Title:

Works. Selections. English 2002

Language:

English

Greek, Modern (1453-)

Subjects (All):

Greek literature, Modern--Translations into English.

Greek literature, Modern.

Physical Description:

187 pages ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : Guernica, 2002.

Summary:

This first English publication of Maria Lampadaridou Pothou's work is a collection of her critically acclaimed writing. It includes a revisionist version of a Sophoclean tragedy, Antigone or The Nostalgia of Tragedy, which was written to protest Greek dictatorship. Praised by Samuel Beckett, Pothou wrote the other two featured plays, The Glass Box and Bidding You Farewell, in the tradition of the Theater of the Absurd. Also included are poems from The Mystic Passage.

Notes:

Translated from the Greek by Rhoda Helfman Kaufman.

ISBN:

1550711202

OCLC:

47868993