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5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
A good value, some classic translations,
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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.
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Ten Greek Plays in Contemporary Translation (Riverside Editions) by L.R. Lind (Paperback - September 29, 1972)
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