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Antigone and Other Tragedies: Antigone, Deianeira, Electra
Sophocles, PaperbackOriginal price was: $5.95.$5.06Current price is: $5.06.
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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.
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.
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Binding Type: Paperback
Contributors: Sophocles, Oliver Taplin (Author)
Published: 01/03/2022
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
ISBN: 9780192806864
Pages: 272
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