Focus Classical Library: Electra (Edition 1) (Paperback)

from jonfaith

While I loved the dialogue, the pacing of this Hamlet and Antigone caper was a bit rushed. The chorus was particularly effective, the atmosphere resonates with revenge. Electra pines but does not waste. Her timid sister cringes in comparison to this inferno of vengeance. Then suddenly she has a c...

from jonfaith

While I loved the dialogue, the pacing of this Hamlet and Antigone caper was a bit rushed. The chorus was particularly effective, the atmosphere resonates with revenge. Electra pines but does not waste. Her timid sister cringes in comparison to this inferno of vengeance. Then suddenly she has a c...

from dchaikin

50. Electra by Sophocles, translated by Anne Carson - introduction and notes by Michael Shaw - editors' forward by Peter Burian and Alan Shapiro first performed: c. 405 bce translation 2001 (Anne's introduction comes from a 1993 lecture) format: 130 page Oxford University Press paperback acquired...