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The Theban Plays of Sophocles - Sophocles, David R. Slavitt
The Theban Plays of Sophocles
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Format: hardcover
ISBN: 9780300117769 (0300117760)
Publisher: Yale University Press
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Fantasy, Young Adult, Classics, Academic, School, Literature, Read For School, Plays, Drama, Theatre, Poetry, High School, Mythology
Series: The Theban Plays (#1)
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markbell1
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Perhaps second only to Shakespeare and Moliere in depicting his characters' inner life on stage. This translation is as good as a strictly literal one in giving us the playwright's voice while maintaining his meaning.
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Lisa (Harmony)
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5.0 The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
text The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
Sophocles' is one of only three Ancient Greek tragedians with surviving plays. The plays by the earliest, Aeschylus, remind me of a ancient frieze--not stilted exactly, but still stylized, very formal. The plays by the last of the three, Euripides, to me seems the most natural, the most modern. Soph...
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riley
riley rated it
4.0 The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
text The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
Just great stuff. As profound a grasp of humans as I have ever read. What else can be said? I really don't know. I probably should have read this a long time ago.
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Edward
Edward rated it
5.0 The Three Theban Plays: Antigone / Oedipus the King / Oedipus at Colonus
text The Three Theban Plays: Antigone / Oedipus the King / Oedipus at Colonus
AcknowledgementsTranslator's PrefaceGreece and the TheaterIntroduction to Antigone--AntigoneIntroduction to Oedipus the King--Oedipus the KingIntroduction to Oedipus at Colonus--Oedipus at ColonusA Note on the Text of SophoclesTextual VariantsNotes on the TranslationSelect BibliographyThe Genealogy ...
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Edward
Edward rated it
5.0 The Three Theban Plays: Antigone / Oedipus the King / Oedipus at Colonus
text The Three Theban Plays: Antigone / Oedipus the King / Oedipus at Colonus
AcknowledgementsTranslator's PrefaceGreece and the TheaterIntroduction to Antigone--AntigoneIntroduction to Oedipus the King--Oedipus the KingIntroduction to Oedipus at Colonus--Oedipus at ColonusA Note on the Text of SophoclesTextual VariantsNotes on the TranslationSelect BibliographyThe Genealogy ...
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Other editions (137)
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone / Oedipus the King / Oedipus at Colonus - Sophocles, Robert Fagles, Bernard Knox
Sophocles I: Oedipus The King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (The Complete Greek Tragedies, #8) - Sophocles, Richmond Lattimore, David Grene
The Theban Plays: King Oedipus / Oedipus at Colonus / Antigone - E.F. Watling, Sophocles
The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus & Antigone - Sophocles, Paul Roche
The Oedipus Cycle - Sophocles, Dudley Fitts, Robert Fitzgerald
Sophocles' Three Theban Plays (Jamey Hecht Translation with Commentary) - Sophocles, Jamey Hecht
The Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus & Antigone (Thrift) - Sophocles, George Young, George Young
Sophocles 1: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Complete Greek Tragedies) - Sophocles, David Grene, Richmond Lattimore, Elizabeth Wyckoff
The Three Theban Plays: Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus & Antigone - Sophocles, Robert Fagles
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, King Oedipus & Oedipus at Colonus (Classical Texts) - C.A. Trypanis
Theban Plays - Sophocles, Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff
Three Theban Plays - Sophocles, Peter Constantine, Pedro De Blas
The Oedipus Plays - Sophocles, Paul Roche
The Theban Plays: Antigone, King Oidipous & Oidipous at Colonus (Focus Classical Library) - Sophocles, Ruby Blondell
The Theban Plays (Everyman's Library, #93) - Sophocles, David Grene, Charles Segal
The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles - Sophocles, Paul Roche
The Complete Sophocles: Volume 1: The Theban Plays - Sophocles, Alan Shapiro
Theban Plays - Sophocles, Peter Meineck, Paul Woodruff
The Oedipus Trilogy - Sophocles
Three Theban Plays: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus & Antigone - Sophocles, Theodore Howard Banks
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