Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra

English

Series: Oxford Worlds Classics Ser.

ISBN: 0199537178

EAN: 9780199537174

Category: Language Arts & Disciplines / Linguistics

Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated

Release Date: 02/28/2009

Synopsis: This volume contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid translations, which combine elegance and modernity, are remarkable for their lucidity and accuracy, and are equally suitable for reading for pleasure, study, or theatrical performance. The selection ofAntigone,Oedipus the King, andElectranot only offers the reader the most influential and famous of Sophocles works, it also presents in one volume the two plays dominated by a female heroic figure, and the experience of the two great dynasties featured in Greek tragedy--the houses of Oedipus and Agamemnon.

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Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra

Illustrated: No

Format: Paperback

Height: 0.62 inches

Width: 5.08 inches

Length: 7.72 inches

Weight: 5.64 oz

Pages: 224