Two great tragedies and one rollicking farce are in 'Sophocles - Three Plays'. For readers who love dramatic literature, Antigone and Electra, translated for the stage and performed Off Broadway, will ...

Sophocles is difficult. Unlike Euripides, whose dramas seem so modern, so sarcastic, Sophocles' plays rely on complex philosophical explorations more than action. You can have your catharsis, but ...

At best, it’s a vague insight into the dramatist’s furious, uncompromising antihero who’s “isolated” from conventional high society (represented here by Vogue fashionistas glued to cellphones, rather ...

Electra is a troubled and troublesome lass. Stuck in second gear in the grief cycle (anger) over the long-past murder of her father, she’s still jonesing for revenge. We are expected to relish her ...

The Marvels star Brie Larson is set to make her West End Debut with a revival of Sophocles' play, Elektra. No, this is not based on the Marvel Comics character (obviously), but the heroine of the ...

Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collects four of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief of a young ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Journal Information The Classical Quarterly has a reputation for publishing the highest quality classical scholarship for nearly 100 years. It ...