Description
Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price
The story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes, the archetypal tragic hero who accidentally fulfills a prophecy that he will end up killing his father and marrying his mother, thereby bringing disaster down upon his city and family.
This volume, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classics series, contains two plays by Sophocles, Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonos, in English translations by Kenneth McLeish.
It also includes an introduction to the plays.
About the Author
Kenneth McLeish was the most widely respected and prolific translator of drama in Britain and, until his early death in 1997, edited the NHB Drama Classics series.
Reviews
'Kenneth McLeish's fine translation'
* Daily Telegraph *'An unparalleled translator of the Greeks'
* Financial Times *Book Information
ISBN 9781854596109
Author Sophocles
Format Paperback
Page Count 160
Imprint Nick Hern Books
Publisher Nick Hern Books
Weight(grams) 120g
Dimensions(mm) 165mm * 110mm * 10mm
