Six Greek Tragedies: Persians/ Prometheus Bound/ Women of Trachis/ Philoctetes/ Trojan Women/ Bacchae: "Persians", "Prometheus Bound", "Women of ... ... Women", "Bacchae" (Classical Dramatists) - Softcover

Raphael, Stephen; McLeish, Kenneth

Softcover

ISBN 10: 041377256X ISBN 13: 9780413772565

Publisher: A&C Black 3PL, 2002

Synopsis

A single-volume edition of the major Greek tragedies In a period of sixty-six years, three Athenian playwrights produced a series of tragedies which became a touchstone for drama for the next two and a half thousand years. The six plays in this volume include Aeschylus' Persians (472 BC), the earliest surviving Greek tragedy and only surviving 'history' play; his Prometheus Bound, perhaps the most deeply mythological of all tragedies, presenting an archetype of the human condition; Sophocles' Women of Trachis, a deeply poignant piece, portraying Heracles' death through his wife's mistake; his strange Philoctetes, which presents a fascinating moral debate and a young man's realisation of the importance of loyalty to his own ideals; Euripides' Trojan Women, the greatest anti-war play ever written; and his intangible Bacchae, a play full of paradoxes which functions at many different levels.The volume is edited and introduced by Marianne McDonald, Professor of Theatre and Classics, University of California, San Diego, and J. Michael Walton, Professor of Drama at the University of Hull.

About this title

Synopsis:

The work of these three Athenian playwrights became the touchstone for drama for the next two and a half thousand years. This volume contains Aeschylus' "Persians", the earliest surviving Greek tragedy; his "Prometheus Bound", presenting an archtype of the human condition; Sophocles' "Women of Trachis", protraying Heracles death through his jealous wife's mistake; his "Philoctetes", which presents a moral debate and a young man's realization of the importance of loyalty to his own ideals; Euripides "Trojan Women", an anti-war play; and his "Bacchae", a play full of paradoxes which functions at many levels.

About the Author:

Frederic Raphael has translated the plays of Aeschylus and Euripides, the complete poems of Catallus and Petronius' Satyricon. He is the author of a number of volumes of short stories, seventeen novels, essays, screenplays and biographies of Somerset Maugham and Lord Byron.

About this edition

• Publisher: A&C Black 3PL
• Publication date: 2002
• ISBN 10: 041377256X
• ISBN 13: 9780413772565
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 324
• Editor: McDonald Marianne