Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes
- ISBN-10
- 160384418X
- ISBN-13
- 9781603844185
- Series
- Four Tragedies
- Pages
- 312
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2007-03-09
- Publisher
- Hackett Publishing
- Authors
- Sophocles, Paul Woodruff, Peter Meineck
Description
Meineck and Woodruff's new translations of these plays combine accuracy with concision, clarity, and powerful speech. Each translation includes foot-of-the-page notes, stage directions, and line numbers to the Greek. The Introduction discusses the playwright, Athenian theatre and performance, plots and major characters of each play, and major critical interpretations of the plays.
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