Ten Greek Plays in Contemporary Translation (Riverside Editions) [Paperback]

L.R. Lind (Author)

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• Paperback: 448 pages
• Publisher: Wadsworth Publishing; 1 edition (September 29, 1972)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0395051177
• ISBN-13: 978-0395051177
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.3 x 0.8 inches
• Shipping Weight: 15.2 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #273,946 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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4.0 out of 5 stars A good value, some classic translations, May 25, 2006

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This review is from: Ten Greek Plays in Contemporary Translation (Riverside Editions) (Paperback)

Louis MacNeice was a more significant 20th cent. poet, and a better Greek scholar, both of those together, than nearly any translator of Greek tragedy I can think of. His "Agamemnon" alone justifies this volume. Also unique is C. T. Murphy's "Lysistrata", produced for a Harvard College student production (perhaps not one with Leonard Bernstein incidental music, though that was the rumor when I was Murphy's student at Oberlin). The Sophocles and Euripides translations are serviceable at least. Given that one play in the Oxford Greek Tragedy in New Translations series costs $8 or 9, and that Chicago or Penguin organize by single playwrites, and that the standard theatre history anthologies contain inferior translations in pricier volumes, this remains a terrific value for the money.