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Author : Sinclair MacLardy Adams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
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Download or read book Sophocles, the Playwright written by Sinclair MacLardy Adams and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Phoemixx Classics Ebooks
ISBN 13 : 3986773584
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Seven Plays in English Verse written by Sophocles and published by Phoemixx Classics Ebooks. This book was released on 2021-12-24 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Seven Plays in English Verse Sophocles - Included herein are the seven surviving plays of Athens' pre-eminent playwright, Sophocles, masterfully translated by Lewis Campbell, M.A., LL.D. The plays included are: 'Antigone,' 'Aias,' 'King Oedipus,' 'Electra,' 'The Trachinian Maidens,' and 'Oedipus at Colonus.'
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781514283387
Total Pages : 0 pages
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Download or read book Oedipus the King written by Sophocles and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-06-09 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oedipus the King - Sophocles - The Plays of Sophocles - To Laius, King of Thebes, an oracle foretold that the child born to him by his queen Jocasta would slay his father and wed his mother. So when in time a son was born the infant's feet were riveted together and he was left to die on Mount Cithaeron. But a shepherd found the babe and tended him, and delivered him to another shepherd who took him to his master, the King of Corinth. Polybus being childless adopted the boy, who grew up believing that he was indeed the King's son. Afterwards doubting his parentage he inquired of the Delphic god and heard himself the word declared before to Laius. Wherefore he fled from what he deemed his father's house and in his flight he encountered and unwillingly slew his father Laius. Arriving at Thebes he answered the riddle of the Sphinx and the grateful Thebans made their deliverer king. So he reigned in the room of Laius, and espoused the widowed queen. Children were born to them and Thebes prospered under his rule, but again a grievous plague fell upon the city. Again the oracle was consulted and it bade them purge themselves of blood-guiltiness. Oedipus denounces the crime of which he is unaware, and undertakes to track out the criminal. Step by step it is brought home to him that he is the man. The closing scene reveals Jocasta slain by her own hand and Oedipus blinded by his own act and praying for death or exile.
Author : S. M. Adams
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 182 pages
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Download or read book Sophocles the Playwright written by S. M. Adams and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1585106267
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Theban Plays written by Sophocles and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2001-12-01 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This anthology includes English translations of three plays of Sophocles' Oidipous Cycle: Antigone, King Oidipous, and Oidipous at Colonus. The trilogy includes an introductory essay on Sophocles life, ancient theatre, and the mythic and religious background of the plays. Each of these plays is available from Focus in a single play edition. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781986570640
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plays of Sophocles written by Sophocles and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-03-16 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. He competed in 30 competitions, won 24, and was never judged lower than second place. Aeschylus won 13 competitions, and was sometimes defeated by Sophocles, while Euripides won 4 competitions. The most famous tragedies of Sophocles feature Oedipus and also Antigone: they are generally known as the Theban plays, although each play was actually a part of a different tetralogy, the other members of which are now lost. Sophocles influenced the development of drama, most importantly by adding a third actor, thereby reducing the importance of the chorus in the presentation of the plot. He also developed his characters to a greater extent than earlier playwrights such as Aeschylus.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Modern Library
ISBN 13 : 0812983092
Total Pages : 866 pages
Book Rating : 4.98/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Greek Plays written by Sophocles and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2017-09-05 with total page 866 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the King Featuring translations by Emily Wilson, Frank Nisetich, Sarah Ruden, Rachel Kitzinger, Mary Lefkowitz, and James Romm The great plays of Ancient Greece are among the most enduring and important legacies of the Western world. Not only is the influence of Greek drama palpable in everything from Shakespeare to modern television, the insights contained in Greek tragedy have shaped our perceptions of the nature of human life. Poets, philosophers, and politicians have long borrowed and adapted the ideas and language of Greek drama to help them make sense of their own times. This exciting curated anthology features a cross section of the most popular—and most widely taught—plays in the Greek canon. Fresh translations into contemporary English breathe new life into the texts while capturing, as faithfully as possible, their original meaning. This outstanding collection also offers short biographies of the playwrights, enlightening and clarifying introductions to the plays, and helpful annotations at the bottom of each page. Appendices by prominent classicists on such topics as “Greek Drama and Politics,” “The Theater of Dionysus,” and “Plato and Aristotle on Tragedy” give the reader a rich contextual background. A detailed time line of the dramas, as well as a list of adaptations of Greek drama to literature, stage, and film from the time of Seneca to the present, helps chart the history of Greek tragedy and illustrate its influence on our culture from the Roman Empire to the present day. With a veritable who’s who of today’s most renowned and distinguished classical translators, The Greek Plays is certain to be the definitive text for years to come. Praise for The Greek Plays “Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm deftly have gathered strong new translations from Frank Nisetich, Sarah Ruden, Rachel Kitzinger, Emily Wilson, as well as from Mary Lefkowitz and James Romm themselves. There is a freshness and pungency in these new translations that should last a long time. I admire also the introductions to the plays and the biographies and annotations provided. Closing essays by five distinguished classicists—the brilliant Daniel Mendelsohn and the equally skilled David Rosenbloom, Joshua Billings, Mary-Kay Gamel, and Gregory Hays—all enlightened me. This seems to me a helpful light into our gathering darkness.”—Harold Bloom
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781522715993
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)
Download or read book Oedipus the King written by Sophocles and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2015-12-12 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Oedipus the King is the first tragic play in Sophocles' classic Oedipus trilogy. The plays tells the story of a man who eventually becomes the King of Thebes while fulfilling an extremely tragic prophecy.
Author : Sophocles
Publisher : Createspace Independent Publishing Platform
ISBN 13 : 9781720917908
Total Pages : 150 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)
Download or read book Plays of written by Sophocles and published by Createspace Independent Publishing Platform. This book was released on 2018-06-09 with total page 150 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus The King - Oedipus at colonus - Antigone. Sophocles is one of three ancient Greek tragedians whose plays have survived. His first plays were written later than those of Aeschylus, and earlier than or contemporary with those of Euripides. Sophocles wrote over 120 plays during the course of his life, but only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, The Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. For almost 50 years, Sophocles was the most celebrated playwright in the dramatic competitions of the city-state of Athens that took place during the religious festivals of the Lenaea and the Dionysia. The Theban plays consist of three plays: Oedipus Rex (also called Oedipus Tyrannus or Oedipus the King), Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone. All three plays concern the fate of Thebes during and after the reign of King Oedipus.
Author : Sophocles,
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474225195
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.99/5 ( download)
Download or read book Sophocles Plays: 1 written by Sophocles, and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2014-10-10 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Includes the plays Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus and Antigone, collectively known as the Theban plays. Starting with Oedipus the King and ending with the ultimate sacrifice of Antigone, his daughter the plays follow the trials of a family cursed by the edict of an oracle that "you will kill your father and marry with your mother". From the fourth century BC - when Aristotle took Oedipus the King as his model tragedy, the influence of Sophocles' great plays has been assured. These three great tragedies have a relevance and immediacy as metaphors for some of the most fundamentally held beliefs and values in our culture.This volume contains the Theban plays - widely studied in schools and universities. Translated and with an introduction and notes from Don Taylor - the playwright who directed these plays for BBC TV
