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Description for King Oedipus
Paperback. A newly published translation by Kenneth McLeish, with an introduction by Stephen Mulrine. Translator(s): McLeish, Kenneth. Series: Drama Classics. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 159 x 106 x 9. Weight in Grams: 120. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
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.
Product Details
Condition
Used, Very Good
Publisher
Nick Hern Books
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Series
Drama Classics
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781854596109
SKU
KTG0010049
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 2 to 4 working days
Ref
99-1
About Sophocles
Sophocles (c.496–405 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. Of his more than 120 plays, only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. Kenneth McLeish was the most widely respected and prolific translator of drama in Britain and, until his early death in 1997, edited the ... Read more
Reviews for King Oedipus
'Kenneth McLeish's fine translation'
Daily Telegraph
'An unparalleled translator of the Greeks'
Financial Times
Daily Telegraph
'An unparalleled translator of the Greeks'
Financial Times