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Greek Tragedy

Greek Tragedy - Drama Classic Collections

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Publisher's Synopsis

Three of the most famous tragedies from Ancient Greece, all featuring female protagonists - in modern, much-performed translations.

This volume, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic Collections series, contains:

Antigone by Sophocles, translated by Marianne McDonald. The first great 'resistance' drama, and perhaps the definitive Greek tragedy.

Bacchae by Euripides, translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael. The story of revenge by the half-man half-god Dionysos on Pentheus, King of Thebes, and all his people.

Medea by Euripides, translated by Kenneth McLeish and Frederic Raphael. The powerful myth of Medea, who murders her children as revenge for her husband's infidelity.

About the Publisher

Nick Hern Books

Nick Hern Books is the UK's leading specialist performing arts publisher with over 1,000 plays and theatre books in our catalogue. Our list of plays includes work by many of the UK's preeminent playwrights, as well as some of the most exciting emerging writers. We work with major theatres and theatre companies across the UK and in Ireland to publish new plays alongside their professional premieres, often in the form of a 'programme/text' that combines the functions of theatre programme and playtext. We also publish many classic plays and plays in translation, together with a wide range of authoritative theatre books, many of them written by well-known theatre practitioners.

Book information

ISBN: 9781854598479
Publisher: Nick Hern Books
Imprint: Nick Hern Books
Pub date:
DEWEY: 882.01080162
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 134
Weight: 188g
Height: 197mm
Width: 132mm
Spine width: 9mm