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Introductions and translations to the plays of Sophocles and Euripides / introduced and translated by Harry Love.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Sophocles.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Greek drama--Translations into English.
- Greek drama.
- Sophocles--Translations into English.
- Sophocles.
- Sophocles--Criticism and interpretation.
- Euripides--Translations into English.
- Euripides.
- Euripides--Criticism and interpretation.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (254 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Newcastle, UK : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2006.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- The two volumes of essays and translations of the tragedies of Sophocles and Euripides are the accumulation of some twelve years' of producing ancient plays for contemporary audiences and actors. The play-texts themselves, therefore, are intended to be accessible and speakable, in the first instance, and to convey as much of the flavour of the original Greek as any translation is able. They are there to be used. The style, though personal to a degree, is an attempt to maintain the tone and t...
- Contents:
- TABLE OF CONTENTS; INTRODUCTION: THE MASKS OF MEDEA; EURIPIDES' MEDEA; INTRODUCTION: HIPPOLYTUS; EURIPIDES' HIPPOLYTUS; INTRODUCTION: HECUBA, THE LOGIC OF REVENGE; THE HECUBA OF EURIPIDES; INTRODUCTION: BACCHAE; EURIPIDES' BACCHAE; APPENDIX: EURIPIDES; SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on metadata supplied by the publisher and other sources.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-19138-1
- 9786612191381
- 1-4438-0765-6
- OCLC:
- 830167554
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