Sophocles Plays 1: The Theban Plays: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone:

by Sophocles (Author), Sophocles (Author), Don Taylor And J. Michael Walton (Introduction)

• New

  Paperback
  1986

  $22.04

  Includes the plays Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, collectively known as the Theban plays. Starting with Oedipus the King and ending with the ultimate sacrifice of Antigone, his daughter the plays follow the trials of a family cursed by the edict of an oracle that you will kill your father and marry with your mother . From the fourth century BC - when Aristotle took Oedipus the King as his model tragedy, the influence of Sophocles' great plays has been assured. These three great tragedies have a relevance and immediacy as metaphors for some of the most fundamentally held beliefs and values in our culture.This volume contains the Theban plays - widely studied in schools and universities. Translated and with an introduction and notes from Don Taylor - the playwright who directed these plays for BBC TV

• Used

  Paperback
  1991

  $4.18

  These authoritative translations consign all other complete collections to the wastebasket. Robert Brustein, The New Republic This is it. No qualifications. Go out and buy it everybody. Kenneth Rexroth, The Nation The translations deliberately avoid the highly wrought and affectedly poetic; their idiom is contemporary....They have life and speed and suppleness of phrase. Times Education Supplement These translations belong to our time. A keen poetic sensibility repeatedly quickens them; and without this inner fire the most academically flawless rendering is dead. Warren D. Anderson, American Oxonian The critical commentaries and the versions themselves...are fresh, unpretentious, above all, functional. Commonweal Grene is one of the great translators. Conor Cruise O'Brien, London Sunday Times Richmond Lattimore is that rara avis in our age, the classical scholar who is at the same time an accomplished poet. Dudley Fitts, New York Times Book Review