Sophocles - The Complete Plays Of Sophocles A New Translation - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: Bagg and Scully's renderings strike me as the most performable versions of Sophocles I ve ever encountered if you re looking for the translation that best reflects the emotional force and expressive range of the original plays you would be hard pressed to do better. Philadelphia Inquirer Award - winning poet - playwrights Robert Bagg and James Scully present a gripping new translation of Western literature's earliest treasures in The Complete Plays of Sophocles. In the tradition of Robert Fagles bestselling translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey and retaining the textual authenticity of Richmond Lattimore's Aeschylus Bagg and Scully render Sophocles dramas accessible and exciting for the modern reader. Students new to Athenian drama readers of classical literature and anyone wishing to kindle anew their passion for Greek tragedy will find no more captivating entrance to these milestones of world literature than in Bagg and Scully's The Complete Plays of Sophocles.
Title: The Complete Plays Of Sophocles A New Translation
Author(s): Sophocles
Publisher: Harpercollins Publishers Inc
Barcode: 9780062020345
Pages: 880 Pages
Publication Date: 7/26/2011
Category: Plays, Playscripts