Hecuba (Drama Classics) - Softcover

Euripides

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1854598686 ISBN 13: 9781854598684

Publisher: Nick Hern Books, 2005

Synopsis

Published alongside the London West End opening in April 2005 of the RSC production starring Vanessa Redgrave - and in the wake of Clare Higgins's ecstatically received performance at the Donmar in September 2004 - Hecuba is currently the most performed of all the Greek tragedies. Not surprising, given that it deals with the aftermath of a bloody war and an act of bloody revenge wreaked by a mother robbed of her children.

About this title

About the Author:

Janet Lembke, a poet, is the author of Bronze and Iron, and is co-translator of Suppliant Women, also in The Greek Tragedy in New Translation series. Kenneth J. Reckford is Professor of Classics at the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, and is author of Aristophanes' Old-and-New Comedy: Six Essays in Perspective.The late BWilliam Arrowsmith was University Professor and Professor of Classics at Boston University, and was the celebrated translator of numerous works for the Greek and Latin. Herbert Golder is Assistant Professor of Classics at Boston University. He is editor-in-chief of Arion, a journal of the humanities and classics.

From the Back Cover:

In this new edition of HECUBA, a poet and a classical scholar have collaborated to produce a striking version of a play central to Euripides' dramatic vision. The translators have focused their attention on tonal texture, ranging from grief-stricken monodies and duets to lyrical choral verse, as well as on the problems created by political and forensic rhetoric.

About this edition

• Publisher: Nick Hern Books
• Publication date: 2005
• ISBN 10: 1854598686
• ISBN 13: 9781854598684
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 96