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Hippolytus temporizes & Ion : adaptations of two plays by Euripides / by H.D. ; introduction by Carol Camper.
Van Pelt Library PS3507.O726 I6 2003
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- H. D. (Hilda Doolittle), 1886-1961.
- Standardized Title:
- Ion
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ion (Mythological character)--Drama.
- Ion.
- Ion (Mythological character).
- Hippolytus (Mythological character)--Drama.
- Hippolytus.
- Hippolytus (Mythological character).
- Phaedra (Greek mythological character)--Drama.
- Phaedra.
- Phaedra (Greek mythological character).
- Genre:
- Drama.
- Tragedies.
- Penn Provenance:
- Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- xviii, 278 pages ; 21 cm
- Other Title:
- Ion and Hippolytus temporizes
- Place of Publication:
- New York : New Directions Books, 2003.
- Summary:
- Brilliant reworkings of Euripides' classic dramas by the great modernist poet H.D., now available in one volume. H.D.'s 1927 adaptation of Euripides' Hippolytus Temporizes and her 1937 translation of Ion appeared midpoint in her career. These two verse dramas can both be considered as "freely adapted" from plays by Euripides; they constitute a commentary in action, and in this regard resemble the Oedipus plays of W. B. Yeats and Ezra Pound's Women of Trachis. In the first play, the young man Hippolytus is obsessed with the virgin goddess Artemis and discovers the depth of his passion with the sensual Phaedra, his disguised stepmother: this experience brings self-knowledge and death. The heroine Kreousa in Ion attempts to poison Ion when she fails to recognize him as her son by Apollo and sees instead an outsider and possible usurper of her throne.
- Notes:
- "A New Directions paperbook original NDP967"--P. [4] of cover.
- Local Notes:
- Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has addidtional printing of half title page-xviii at the end of book.
- ISBN:
- 0811215539
- OCLC:
- 52559047
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