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Book Synopsis The Other Four Plays of Sophocles by : Sophocles
Download or read book The Other Four Plays of Sophocles written by Sophocles and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2013-12-15 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famed translator David Slavitt lends his distinctly contemporary voice to four lesser-known plays of Sophocles. There are seven surviving tragedies by Sophocles. Three of them form the Theban Plays, which recount the story of Thebes during and after the reign of Oedipus. Here, David Slavitt translates the remaining tragedies—the "other four plays:" Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes. Punchy and entertaining, Slavitt reads Athena's opening line in Ajax as: "I’ve got my eye on you, Odysseus. Always." By simplifying the Greek and making obscure designations more accessible—specifying the character Athena in place of “aegis-wearing goddess,” for example—his translations are highly performable. The Other Four Plays of Sophocles will help students discover underlying thematic connections across plays as well. Praise for David R. Slavitt "Slavitt's translation is . . . lively and sometimes witty."—Times Literary Supplement, reviewing Slavitt's translation of Seneca "The best version of Ovid's Metamorphoses available in English today . . . It is readable, alive, at times slangy, and actually catches Ovid's tone."—Philadelphia Inquirer, reviewing Slavitt's translation of The Metamorphoses of Ovid "Slavitt's ability is clearly in evidence . . . These translations are rendered in lucid, contemporary English, bringing before us the atrocities, horrors, and grotesqueries of Imperial Rome."—Classical Outlook, reviewing Slavitt's translation of Seneca "Excellent translations that suit the ear and strengthen the feeble spirit of the time . . . One will do well to read these hymns, these poems, and find nourishment in them in Slavitt's translations."—Anglican Theological Review, reviewing Slavitt’s translation of Hymns of Prudentius
Download or read book Four Greek Plays written by Dudley Fitts and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1988 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents recent translations of these four Greek classics together with notes on their significance.
Book Synopsis Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies by : Sophocles
Download or read book Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies written by Sophocles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2016 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This original and distinctive verse translation of four of Sophocles' plays conveys the vitality of his poetry and the vigour of the plays as performed showpieces, encouraging the reader to relish the sound of the spoken verse and the potential for song within the lyrics.
Download or read book Sophocles written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1906 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis All That You've Seen Here Is God by : Sophocles
Download or read book All That You've Seen Here Is God written by Sophocles and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2015-09-01 with total page 482 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These contemporary translations of four Greek tragedies speak across time and connect readers and audiences with universal themes of war, trauma, suffering, and betrayal. Under the direction of Bryan Doerries, they have been performed for tens of thousands of combat veterans, as well as prison and medical personnel around the world. Striking for their immediacy and emotional impact, Doerries brings to life these ancient plays, like no other translations have before.
Book Synopsis The Complete Sophocles by : Sophocles
Download or read book The Complete Sophocles written by Sophocles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 448 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Herbert Golder also served as General Editor. --Book Jacket.
Book Synopsis Electra and Other Plays by : Sophocles
Download or read book Electra and Other Plays written by Sophocles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1953 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides translation of four Greek dramas by Sophocles.
Book Synopsis Antigone and other Tragedies by : Sophocles
Download or read book Antigone and other Tragedies written by Sophocles and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-28 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the centuries. His plays are deeply disturbing and unpredictable, unrelenting and open-ended, refusing to present firm answers to the questions of human existence, or to provide a redemptive justification of the ways of gods to men or women. These three tragedies portray the extremes of human suffering and emotion, turning the heroic myths into supreme works of poetry and dramatic action. Antigone's obsession with the dead, Creon's crushing inflexibility, Deianeira's jealous desperation, the injustice of the gods witnessed by Hyllus, Electra's obsessive vindictiveness, the threatening of insoluble dynastic contamination... Such are the pains and distortions and instabilities of Sophoclean tragedy. And yet they do not deteriorate into cacophony or disgust or incoherence or silence: they face the music, and through that the suffering is itself turned into the coherence of music and poetry. These original and distinctive verse translations convey the vitality of Sophocles' poetry and the vigour of the plays in performance, doing justice to both the sound of the poetry and the theatricality of the tragedies. Each play is accompanied by an introduction and substantial notes on topographical and mythical references and interpretation.
Download or read book Four Tragedies written by Sophocles and published by Hackett Publishing Company Incorporated. This book was released on 2007 with total page 267 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles' Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes combine the same standards of accuracy, concision, clarity, and powerful speech that have so often made their Theban Plays a source of epiphany in the classroom and of understanding in the theatre. Woodruff's Introduction offers a brisk and stimulating discussion of central themes in Sophoclean drama, the life of the playwright, staging issues, and each of the four featured plays.
Download or read book Oedipus the King written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 2019-10-15 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At the outset of the play, Oedipus is the beloved ruler of the city of Thebes, whose citizens have been stricken by a plague. Consulting the Delphic oracle, Oedipus is told that the plague will cease only when the murderer of Queen Jocasta's first husband, King Laius, has been found and punished for his deed. Oedipus resolves to find Laius's killer. His investigation turns into an obsessive reconstruction of his own hidden past when he discovers that the old man he killed when he first approached Thebes as a youth was none other than Laius. At the end, Jocasta hangs herself in shame, and the guilt-stricken Oedipus blinds himself.
Book Synopsis The Three Theban Plays by : Sophocles
Download or read book The Three Theban Plays written by Sophocles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1984-02-07 with total page 432 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family—Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus—are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles's authoritative and acclaimed translation conveys all of Sophocles's lucidity and power: the cut and thrust of his dialogue, his ironic edge, the surge and majesty of his choruses and, above all, the agonies and triumphs of his characters. This Penguin Classics edition features an introduction and notes by the renowned classicist Bernard Knox. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Book Synopsis Four Plays by Sophocles. Newly Translated by Theodore Howard Banks. Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes by : Sophocles
Download or read book Four Plays by Sophocles. Newly Translated by Theodore Howard Banks. Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1966 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Electra and Other Plays by : Sophocles
Download or read book Electra and Other Plays written by Sophocles and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1953 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides translation of four Greek dramas by Sophocles.
Book Synopsis The Three Theban Plays by : Sophocles
Download or read book The Three Theban Plays written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-24 with total page 202 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of all three of Sophocles' three Theban plays, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. Each work was part of a tetralogy, a composition made up of four distinct works. The other three works of each tetralogy are now lost. Although these are published under a single cover, they are not a trilogy and do not contain a continuous narrative. The three plays were written for different festivals, sometimes years apart. Nonetheless, the three plays cover the fate of the royal family of King Oedipus at the city state Thebes during and after the reign of King Oedipus.Sophocles is one of three ancient Greeks tragedy writers, whose works have survived for posterity. Along with Aeschylus and Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven manuscripts have survived. During his life at Athens, Sophocles competed in over thirty competitions at the festival of Dionysus. He won twenty-four, and never placed lower than second. Sophocles e is remembered as the founding father of western tragedy.
Book Synopsis Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus The King; Oedipus At Colonus; Antigone by : Sophocles
Download or read book Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus The King; Oedipus At Colonus; Antigone written by Sophocles and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 205 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when in time a son was born the infant's feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron. But a shepherd found the babe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his master, the King of Corinth. Polybus being childless adopted the boy, who grew up believing that he was indeed the King's son. Afterwards doubting his parentage he inquired of the Delphic god and heard himself the word declared before to Laius." -Preface
Book Synopsis Five Great Greek Tragedies by : Sophocles
Download or read book Five Great Greek Tragedies written by Sophocles and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2015-02-03 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Features Oedipus Rex and Electra by Sophocles (translated by George Young), Medea and Bacchae by Euripides (translated by Henry Hart Milman), and Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus (translated by George Thomson).
Book Synopsis The Three Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, & Antigone by : Sophocles
Download or read book The Three Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, & Antigone written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 2020-08-20 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of all three of Sophocles' three Theban plays, Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. Each work was part of a tetralogy, a composition made up of four distinct works. The other three works of each tetralogy are now lost. Although these are published under a single cover, they are not a trilogy and do not contain a continuous narrative. The three plays were written for different festivals, sometimes years apart. Nonetheless, the three plays cover the fate of the royal family of King Oedipus at the city state Thebes during and after the reign of King Oedipus.Sophocles is one of three ancient Greeks tragedy writers, whose works have survived for posterity. Along with Aeschylus and Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, but only seven manuscripts have survived. During his life at Athens, Sophocles competed in over thirty competitions at the festival of Dionysus. He won twenty-four, and never placed lower than second. Sophocles e is remembered as the founding father of western tragedy.
