Bacchae of Euripides - A New Translation With a Critical Essay

Informationen zum Autor Donald Sutherland, former professor of classics and chairman of the Humanities Program at the University of Colorado, has published translations of Hippolytus (1960), Lysistrata (1961), and Les Fourberies de Scapin (1963). Klappentext This new translation of "The Bacchae--"that strange blend of Aeschylean grandeur and Euripidean finesse--is an attempt to reproduce for the American stage the play as it most probably was when new and unmutilated in 406 B.C. The achievement of this aim involves a restoration of the "great lacuna" at the climax and the discovery of several primary stage effects very likely intended by Euripides. These effects and controversial questions of the composition and stylistics are discussed in the notes and the accompanying essay. Zusammenfassung A translation of "The Bacchae" - that strange blend of Aeschylean grandeur and Euripidean finesse - which attempts to reproduce for the American stage the play as it most probably was when new and unmutilated in 406 BC.

Product details

• Authors: Euripides
• Assisted by: Donald Sutherland (Editor), Donald Sutherland (Translation)
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.03.1968
• EAN: 9780803251946
• ISBN: 978-0-8032-5194-6
• No. of pages: 154
• Series: Bison Book S; Bison Book S
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies