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Sophocles

(Modern critical views)

By Harold Bloom

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| Hardcover | 9781555463236

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Sophocles has held a firm place in critical esteem for 2,500 years. In this text, critics examine his seemingly timeless work, including Ajax, Electra, and Oedipus Rex.

This title, Sophocles, part of Chelsea House Publishers’ Modern Critical Views series, examines the major works of SophoclContinue

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I read Antigone in anticipation of Bertold Brecht's Die Antigone des Sophokles (http://www.berliner-ensemble.de/repertoire.php?c=1) in Berlin. I have always had some difficulty reading plays because so much of the content of a play is in how the words are delivered and how the actors move ... (continue)

I read Antigone in anticipation of Bertold Brecht's Die Antigone des Sophokles (http://www.berliner-ensemble.de/repertoire.php?c=1) in Berlin. I have always had some difficulty reading plays because so much of the content of a play is in how the words are delivered and how the actors move. But this translation flowed fairly naturally. When I saw the performance, I was shocked how much I was moved even though I do not know German.

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