Iphigenia by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Iphigenia (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781849431644)

Vendor: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Iphigenia by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Iphigenia

$14.95
Iphigenia by Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von

Iphigenia

$14.95
Format: Paperback
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The Greek fleet bound for Troy is becalmed. For the sake of a wind, Agamemnon, leader of the Greek forces, is persuaded that he must sacrifice his daughter Iphigenia. But as the priest raises his knife to slit the child's throat, the goddess Diana spirits her away. Clytemnestra, Agamemnon's wife, believing her beloved daughter to be dead, slays her husband in revenge on hisreturn from the Trojan wars. Their son, Orestes, avenges his father's death by killing his mother. Now, years later, as Iphigenia, a prisoner of the temple of Diana, looks across the sea to Greece, longing to return home, her brother Orestes arrives...

Author: Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
ISBN-10: 1849431647
ISBN-13: 9781849431644
Publisher: Oberon Books
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2012
Pages: 96
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.25lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.00w x 0.20d
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe
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Meredith Oakes' first play, The Neighbour, was produced at the Royal National Theatre, London in 1992, and is published by Oberon Books. The Editing Process was first produced by the English Stage Company at the Royal Court Theatre, London, in 1994. Her translation include The New Menoza by Lenz, Horvath's Italian Night, and Bernhard's Elizabeth II. Opera Libretti include The Triumph of Beauty and Deceit and Solid Assets.

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