Greek Plays

Name: Greek Plays
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ISBN: 9781559362405

ISBN-10: 1559362405

ISBN-13: 9781559362405

Edition: 2004

Authors: Ellen McLaughlin, Tony Kushner

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From "The Persians" "Defeat is impossible Defeat is unthinkable We have always been the favorites of fate. Fortune has cupped us In her golden palms. It has only been a matter Of choosing our desire. Which fruit To pick from the nodding tree." This chilling passage is from Ellen McLaughlin's new adaptation of "The Persians "by Aeschylus, the earliest surviving play in Western literature, an elegy for a fallen civi-lization and a warning to its new conqueror. As Margo Jefferson wrote in the "New York Times", "The play is a true classic: we see the present and the future right there, inside the past. And when writers give us a __new version' (a translation or adaptation) of a classic, they…

Book details

List price: $24.95
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Theatre Communications Group, Incorporated
Publication date: 7/1/2004
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 400
Size: 5.35" wide x 8.50" long x 1.00" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

Tony Kushner is Professor in History and director of the Parkes Institute for the Study of Jewish/non-Jewish Relations at the University of Southampton.



Foreword



Preface


Acknowledgments


Iphigenia and Other Daughters


Iphigenia in Aulis


Electra


Iphigenia in Tauris


The Trojan Women


Helen


Lysistrata


The Persians


Oedipus