"Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe. Recognized in his own day as perhaps the greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles' reputation has remained undimmed for two and a half thousand years. His greatest innovation in the tragic medium was his deve ..."
SOPHOCLES Three Tragedies: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra by Roger A. Caras, D. Grene, KittoSophocles Paperback, 159 Pages, Published 1964 by Oxford University Press ISBN-13: 978-0-19-500374-1, ISBN: 0-19-500374-8
"Faithful as translations and vigorous and straightforward both to read and to act, these versions were written, like their originals, for immediate staage-production. Kitto has deliberately used a fairly strict meter, allowing himself no greater number of verses than Sophocles used, and where the original is formal--as in the line-by-line dialogue--the translations too are formal. The original rhythmic structure of the lyrics has been ..."
"Oedipus the King ; Electra Sófocles Humphrey Davy Findley Kitto, Edith Hall.
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