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The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles - Oedipus the King, ""Oedipus at Kolonos"", ""Antigone (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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The Oedipus Plays of Sophocles - Oedipus the King, ""Oedipus at Kolonos"", ""Antigone (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Vivid translations of three masterworks of Western literature; With
this volume, poet Robert Bagg completes his translation of the
three plays in which Sophocles dra matized the agony and
destruction inflicted on Oedipus and his family, the royal house of
Thebes. To the newly revised Oedipus the King, first published in
1982, Bagg adds Antigone and Oedipus at Kolonos. Composed decades
apart in the fifth century bce, these tragedies hold a central
place in Western literature - not only because of the formal beauty
and dramatic power of their poetry, but because of the shocking
ironies that convey Sophocles' understanding of divine malice and
human vulnerability. Bagg's goal has been to make accurate but
idiomatic renderings of the Greek originals that are suitable for
reading, teaching, or performing. What makes his versions ""leaner,
tauter, more luminous and Sophoclean than other transitions,""
writes classicist Richard P. Martin, is Bagg's ""decision to follow
the American poetic tradition of Stevens, Pound, and Frost rather
than the English tradition"" of most other contemporary
translators. Readers and actors alike will find these translations
loyal to Sophocles' characteristic directness and concision, his
pervasive irony, his unsparing descriptions of physical violence,
and the music of his choral songs. Each character speaks with a
distinctive voice; each play possesses a tone expressive of the
issues that preoccupied Sophocles during the stages of his long
engagement with the fate of Oedipus, his wife/mother Jocasta, and
their children. In the introductions, Bagg and his wife Mary
discuss factors in ancient Greek social and cultural life that are
likely to be unfamiliar to the general reader but are central to
interpreting Sophocles' meaning. They have also annotated each play
to clarify mythological references and points of interpretation and
translation. In their general introduction they explore the origins
of Greek theater, the nature of the Athenian festival of Dionysos
at which Sophocles' plays were first performed, and the
characteristic ingredients of Greek drama in performance. They
conclude with a discussion of the known facts and surviving
anecdotes of the playwright's life.
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