|
Product Description
In the last year of his life, Ted Hughes completed translations of three major dramatic works: Racine's Phedre, Euripedes' Alcestis, and the trilogy of plays known as at The Oresteia, a family story of astonishing power and the background or inspiration for much subsequent drama, fiction, and poetry.
The Oresteia--Agamemnon, Choephori, and the Eumenides--tell the story of the house of Atreus: After King Agamemnon is murdered by his wife, Clytemnestra, their son, Orestes, is commanded by Apollo to avenge the crime by killing his mother, and he returns from exile to do so, bringing on himself the wrath of the Furies and the judgment of the court of Athens.
Hughes's "acting version" of the trilogy is faithful to its nature as a dramatic work, and his translation is itself a great performance; while artfully inflected with the contemporary, it has a classical beauty and authority. Hughes's Oresteia is quickly becoming the standard edition for English-language readers and for the stage, too.
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
- Hesiod and Theognis (Penguin Classics): Theogony, Works and Days, and Elegies
- Metamorphoses: A New Translation
- The Odyssey
- Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
- The Essential Homer (Hackett Classics)
- Writing Philosophy: A Student's Guide to Writing Philosophy Essays
- The Essential Aeneid (Hackett Classics)
- No Exit and Three Other Plays
- Julius Caesar (Barnes & Noble Shakespeare)
- Pluto: fabula amoris (Fabulae Amoris) (Volume 1) (Latin Edition)
*If this is not the "The Oresteia of Aeschylus" product you were looking for, you can check the other results by clicking this link. Details were last updated on Dec 24, 2024 08:40 +08.