Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> Ancient & Classical

Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles' "Ajax," "Women of Trachis," "Electra," and "Philoctetes" combine the same standards of accuracy, concision, clarity, and powerful speech that have so often made their "Theban Plays" a source of epiphany in the classroom and of understanding in the theatre. Woodruff's Introduction offers a brisk and stimulating discussion of central themes in Sophoclean drama, the life of the playwright, staging issues, and each of the four featured plays.

A translation of one of Euripides' finest plays by one of Britain's most experienced translators

Ion is the story of the abandoned child Ion, reunited with her mother Xouthos

This is the "Medea" we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy without clumsiness. No English Medea can ever be Euripides', but this is as close as anyone has come so far, and a good deal closer than I thought anyone would ever come. Arnson Svarlien has shown herself exceedingly skillful in making Euripides sound Euripidean.--David M. Schaps, "Bryn Mawr Classical Review"

Originally adapted for the stage, Peter Meineck's revised translations achieve a level of fidelity appropriate for classroom use while managing to preserve the wit and energy that led The New Yorker to judge his "Clouds"The best Greek drama we've ever seen anywhere," and The Times Literary Supplement to describe his "Wasps" as "Hugely enjoyable and very, very funny. A general Introduction, introductions to the plays, and detailed notes on staging, history, religious practice and myth combine to make this a remarkably useful teaching text.

This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one s lips, pulling all the punches of Plautus, the knockabout king of farce, and proving that the more polished Terence can be just as funny. Accuracy to the original has been thoroughly respected, but look at the humour in rendering Diphilius play called Synapothnescontes as Three s a Shroud. . . . Students in schools and colleges will benefit from short introductions to each play, to Roman stage conventions, to different types of Greek and Roman comedy, and there is a...

This line-for-line translation of Aristophanes' best-known comedy features an Introduction on Old Comedy, and the place of "Clouds" and Aristophanic comedy within it. Footnotes and more detailed endnotes further distinguish this edition of a play famous for its caricature of Socrates and of the "new learning."

This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle, presenting the translators' "Oedipus Tyrannus" (2000) along with Woodruff's "Antigone" (2001) and a muscular new "Oedipus at Colonus" by Meineck. Grippingly readable, all three translations combine fidelity to the Greek with concision, clarity, and powerful, hard-edged speech. Each play features foot-of-the-page notes, stage directions, and line numbers to the Greek. Woodruff's Introduction discusses the playwright, Athenian theatre and performance, the...

This new volume of three of Euripides' most celebrated plays offers graceful, economical, metrical translations that convey the wide range of effects of the playwright's verse, from the idiomatic speech of its dialogue to the high formality of its choral odes.

This is the Medea we have been waiting for. It offers clarity without banality, eloquence without pretension, meter without doggerel, accuracy without clumsiness. No English Medea can ever be Euripides', but this is as close as anyone has come so far, and a good deal closer than I thought anyone would ever come. Arnson Svarlien has shown herself exceedingly skillful in making Euripides sound Euripidean.--David M. Schaps, Bryn Mawr Classical Review

This is a sparkling new translation of The School for Wives, Moliere's famous comedy of sexual manners, by popular Scottish poet and playwright Liz Lochhead.

Im beschrankten Quellenbestand fur die griechische Geschichte des 5./4. Jahrhunderts v.Chr. sind die Biographien Plutarchs nicht zu entbehren. Gleichwohl ist die Benutzung dieser kaiserzeitlichen und in ihrer Intention nicht historiographisch orientierten Texte vielfachen methodischen Schwierigkeiten unterworfen, die zu uberwinden ohne kritische Durchleuchtung jeder Einzelpassage nicht gelingen kann. Dies gilt in besonderem Mae fur Plutarchs Artaxerxes-Biographie, die aufgrund ihrer Eigentumlichkeiten der Forschung bisher viele Ratsel aufgegeben hat, dennoch aber den Status einer wichtigen...