Sophocles: The Theban Plays
- ISBN-10
- 1135505268
- ISBN-13
- 9781135505264
- Series
- Sophocles
- Category
- Literary Criticism
- Pages
- 320
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2013-07-04
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Author
- Sophocles
Description
Linked by their common setting in Thebes, Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus stand at the fountainhead of world drama. This volume presents a new, and accurate yet poetic and playable translation by playwright Don Taylor, who has also directed plays for a BBC-TV production.
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- 2022-01-11
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