Sophocles Plays 2

Ajax; Women of Trachis; Electra; Philoctetes

Sophocles author Kenneth McLeish translator Robert Cannon translator J Michael Walton translator J Michael Walton editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing PLC

Published:14th Jun '90

Currently unavailable, and unfortunately no date known when it will be back

Sophocles Plays 2 cover

One of a series, this second collection of plays includes translations of "Ajax", "Women of Trachis" and "Electra" and "Philoctetes", which have all been tried and tested upon the stage.

Sophocles' greatest plays reissued in the new Classical Greek Dramatists series. Introduced by series editor J Michael Walton Includes the surviving complete plays: Ajax which plots the downfall of Odysseus's greatest Trojan enemy - who slaughters a whole herd of cattle before killing himself; Women of Trachis in which the seemingly docile Deianira prepares a lethal homecoming for her womanising husband Heracles; in Electra the son and daughter of the ill-starred Agamemnon plan their revenge on their usurping stepfather and mother and finally Philoctetes in which Sophocles brilliantly explores the themes of pain, love and the betrayal of trust.

ISBN: 9780413628800

Dimensions: 178mm x 112mm x 19mm

Weight: 280g

226 pages