Sophocles Plays 2: Ajax; Women of Trachis; Electra; Philoctetes

by Sophocles, J. Michael Walton (Editor), Kenneth McLeish (Translator), J. Michael Walton (Translator), Robert Cannon (Translator)

Overview

Sophocles' greatest plays reissued in the new Classical Greek Dramatists series. Introduced by series editor J Michael Walton



Includes the surviving complete plays: Ajax which plots the downfall of Odysseus's greatest Trojan enemy - who slaughters a whole herd of cattle before killing himself; Women of Trachis in which the seemingly docile Deianira prepares a lethal homecoming for her womanising husband Heracles; in Electra the son and daughter of the ill-starred Agamemnon plan their revenge on their usurping stepfather and mother and finally Philoctetes in which Sophocles brilliantly explores the themes of pain, love and the betrayal of trust.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780413628800
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Academic
Publication date:	07/13/2009
Series:	Classical Dramatists
Pages:	226
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.70(h) x 0.60(d)
Age Range:	16 - 18 Years

About the Author

Kenneth McLeish studied Classics and Music at Worcester College, Oxford. Once a full-time translator, author and dramatist, he published extensively including The Good Reading Guide, Shakespeare's People, The Theatre of Aristophanes, Companion to the Arts in the Twentieth Century, Myth, The Listener's Guide to Classical Music and Crucial Classics (both with Valerie McLeish) and The Bloomsbury Guide to Human Thought (as general editor).
His original plays and his translations - from ancient Greek drama, as well as from Strindberg, Ibsen Moliere and Strindberg - have been widely performed, most notably by the National Theatre and the Royal Shakespeare Company.

Table of Contents

Ajax; Women of Trachis; Electra; Philoctetes