The Complete Plays of Sophocles
A New Translation
HarperCollins · Print & ebook · July 26, 2011
“Bagg and Scully’s renderings strike me as the most performable versions of Sophocles I’ve ever encountered…if you’re looking for the translation that best reflects the emotional force and expressive range of the original plays, you would be hard pressed to do better.” — Philadelphia Inquirer Award-winning poet-playwrights Robert Bagg and James Scully present a gripping new translation of Western literature’s earliest treasures in The Complete Plays of Sophocles.
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- Who it’s for
- These translations bring Sophocles’ emotional force and expressive range within reach of modern readers.
- Themes
- Greek tragedy, Athenian drama
- Genres
- Classical Plays, Ancient & Classical Collections
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“Bagg and Scully’s renderings strike me as the most performable versions of Sophocles I’ve ever encountered…if you’re looking for the translation that best reflects the emotional force and expressive range of the original plays, you would be hard pressed to do better.” — Philadelphia Inquirer Award-winning poet-playwrights Robert Bagg and James Scully present a gripping new translation of Western literature’s earliest treasures in The Complete Plays of Sophocles.
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In the tradition of Robert Fagles’ bestselling translations of The Iliad and The Odyssey, and retaining the textual authenticity of Richmond Lattimore’s Aeschylus, Bagg and Scully render Sophocles’ dramas accessible and exciting for the modern reader. Students new to Athenian drama, readers of classical literature, and anyone wishing to kindle anew their passion for Greek tragedy will find no more captivating entrance to these milestones of world literature than in Bagg and Scully’s The Complete Plays of Sophocles.
Tragedy in Performance
These translations bring Sophocles’ emotional force and expressive range within reach of modern readers.
Come here for
- Greek tragedy rendered with performance in mind
- A modern entrance to Sophocles’ plays
Expect
- Emotional force and expressive range
- The complete plays in a new translation
Where it sits
| Classical Plays | 94% |
|---|---|
| Ancient & Classical Collections | 53% |
Percentages are BookFrontier’s reading of the book.
Publisher categories
- French Plays
- Classical Plays
- Ancient Greece
- Ancient Rome
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- Women's History
- Ancient & Classical Collections
- French Literary Collections
- Women Authors Collections
- Authors
- Sophocles
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Published
- July 26, 2011
- Format
- Print & ebook
- Theme
- Greek tragedy · Athenian drama
- Reading lane
- French Plays