| Description |
1 online resource (339 pages) |
| Contents |
Cover; Half Title; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Series Preface; Introduction; Acknowledgments; Letter Describing the Performance of Oedipus Rex at Vicenza in 1585; Oedipus at Vicenza and Paris: Two Stages in a Saga; From Preface to Oedipus; Letters on Oedipus, Letter III: Containing the Critique of the Oedipus of Sophocles; Remarks upon Oedipus; What Lies behind the Notes: The Translations of the Antigone of Sophocles in the 18th Century; I. The Note or the Other Translation; II. The Note and the Text; A. The Note and the Greek; B. The status of Latin |
|
III. The Note and the ContextA. The Sophoclean corpus; B. The civilization of antiquity; IV. The Way the Notes are Deployed; What lies behind the notes: their dual working; Preface: The Oedipus Tyrannus of Sophocles; Preface: The Tragedies of Sophocles; Preface to Oedipus, King of Thebes; From Laokoon; From Kritische Wälder: Erstes Wäldchen; Hölderlin's Translations, Wolfgang Schadewaldt; Style of the Translation: Limitations; Sophocles and Hölderlin; I. Oedipus der Tyrann and Antigonä; The Bride of Messina; 1. The Plot; 3. The Chorus; 3c. Comparison with the Sophoclean Chorus; 5. Conclusion |
| Summary |
Linked by their common setting in Thebes, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus stand at the fountainhead of world drama. This volume presents a new, and accurate yet poetic and playable translation by playwright Don Taylor, who has also directed plays for a BBC-TV production |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Sophocles -- Translations into English
|
|
Antigone (Mythological character) -- Drama
|
|
Oedipus (Greek mythological figure) -- Drama
|
| SUBJECT |
Antigone (Mythological character) fast |
|
Oedipus (Greek mythological figure) fast |
|
Sophocles fast |
| Subject |
DRAMA -- Ancient, Classical & Medieval.
|
| SUBJECT |
Thebes (Greece) -- Drama
|
| Subject |
Greece -- Thebes
|
| Genre/Form |
Drama
|
|
Translations
|
| Form |
Electronic book
|
| ISBN |
9781135505264 |
|
1135505268 |
|
