Murder at Jagged Rock: A Translation of Sophocles' Women of Trachis (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780915380985)

Poetry. Drama. Translation from the Greek by Keyne Cheshire. Cheshire's translation inhabits the territory of American myth--the Wild West. With its harsh landscapes and larger- than-life heroes, it is a world both familiar and distant, a world that still resonates within the American psyche. Says Kenneth J. Reckford, I was first shocked, then moved and delighted by Cheshire's translation of Sophocles' Trachinian Women into an American vernacular and Wild West setting. Poetic and rhythmical speeches propel the reader forward and deeper into Sophocles' tragedy, while the choral odes give voice to lastingly powerful feelings of hope and fear, spiritual exultation and earth-bound sadness and pain.

Author: Sophocles
ISBN-10: 0915380986
ISBN-13: 9780915380985
Publisher: Word Works
Language: English
Published: 03/10/2015
Pages: 112
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.39lbs
Size: 9.02h x 5.98w x 0.27d