Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 126 mm x 194 mm, Gewicht: 206 g
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
Antigone, Deianeira, Electra
Buch, Englisch, 272 Seiten, Format (B × H): 126 mm x 194 mm, Gewicht: 206 g
Reihe: Oxford World's Classics
ISBN: 978-0-19-280686-4
Verlag: Oxford University Press
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.
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- Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturwissenschaft: Dramen und Dramatiker
- Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik
- Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Klassische Literaturwissenschaft