Oedipus - Drama Classics
Oedipus - Drama Classics
paperback
Published:
23 February, 1999
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Description
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price
The story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes, the archetypal tragic hero who accidentally fulfills a prophecy that he will end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster down upon his city and family.
This volume, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, contains two plays by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonos, in English translations by Kenneth McLeish.
It also includes an introduction to the plays.
More Details
| Type | Book |
|---|---|
| ISBN13 | 9781854596109 |
| ISBN10 | 1854596101 |
| Number Of Pages | 160 |
| Item Weight | 120 g |
| Product Dimensions | 110 x 165 x 10 mm |
| Publisher / Reseller | Nick Hern Books |
| Format | paperback |
Media Reviews
'Kenneth McLeish's fine translation'
* Daily Telegraph *'An unparalleled translator of the Greeks'
* Financial Times *GoodReads Reviews
Author's Bio
Sophocles (c.496–405 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. Of his more than 120 plays, only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. Kenneth McLeish was the most widely respected and prolific translator of drama in Britain and, until his early death in 1997, edited the NHB Drama Classics series.