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
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