Ten Plays
by:
Euripides (author)
Moses Hadas (author)
John Maclean (author)
The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the...
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The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized: as Sophocles himself said, Euripides shows people not as they ought to be, but as they actually are.
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Format: mass market paperback
ISBN:
9780553213638 (0553213636)
ASIN: 553213636
Publish date: February 1st 1984
Publisher: Bantam Classics
Pages no: 432
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy,
Classics,
Academic,
Literature,
Cultural,
Plays,
Drama,
Theatre,
College,
Poetry,
Greece,
Tragedy,
Mythology
The short introductions for each plays are sufficient to help the reader's appreciation, but not too long to be off-putting. I suppose perhaps even a little too short.
Paul Roche's translations are very good: readable and often preserving elements of the original Greek. Pay attention to his footnotes, though, since that is where he notes problem lines and/or his own interpolations (in particular in the Bacchae).I found his introductions not particularly useful, an...
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