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Editorial Reviews
The New York Times Book Review, Hugh Kenner
Lapses into quasi-parody have plagued adaptations of Greek drama ever since Milton's Samson yelped "Out, Hyena!" at a lady. Plain speech won't do, nor will Shakespearean amplitude; the stylization--enforced by an antinatural dramatic form--is apt to be of card-house instability. If ["Philoctetes" translator] Schwerner generally prefers the damped to the vibrating string, his sense of pace and pause wards off monotony, and he's alert to the starched-collar fallacy of inversions. "Knows not"--a favorite bit of translatorese--is no kind of improvement on "doesn't know," and you won't catch him having recourse to it. At his best he can stylize straight speech most cunningly.
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The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. "A boon for classicists and general readers alike. For the reader who comes to tragedy for the first time, these translations are eminently 'accessible.'. . . For the classicist, these versions constitute an ambitious reinterpretation of traditional masterpieces."--Boston Book Review "A speakable version of Sophocles's 'Philoctetes': as it were, after 25 years, a sequel to Pound's 'The Women of Trachis'." --Hugh Kenner, New York Times Book Review "A two-year project to publish the corpus of classical Greek drama in translations by an impressive array of contemporary poets. It may not be long before anyone who mentions that he is reading Sophocles in Greek can expect to be told, 'Oh, but you simply "must' read it in translation.'"--New Yorker "Don't look for the wild and woolly--these were put together by wordsmiths. . . . But they are a far cry from some of the stodgier translations."--Washington Post "The 12-volume set will offer readers new verse translations of the complete surviving tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as well as the surviving comedies of Aristophanes and Menander. The complete line of Greek theater classics has not been offered to readers since 1938."--Publishers Weekly
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Lapses into quasi-parody have plagued adaptations of Greek drama ever since Milton's Samson yelped "Out, Hyena!" at a lady. Plain speech won't do, nor will Shakespearean amplitude; the stylization--enforced by an antinatural dramatic form--is apt to be of card-house instability. If ["Philoctetes" translator] Schwerner generally prefers the damped to the vibrating string, his sense of pace and pause wards off monotony, and he's alert to the starched-collar fallacy of inversions. "Knows not"--a favorite bit of translatorese--is no kind of improvement on "doesn't know," and you won't catch him having recourse to it. At his best he can stylize straight speech most cunningly.
Product Description
The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. "A boon for classicists and general readers alike. For the reader who comes to tragedy for the first time, these translations are eminently 'accessible.'. . . For the classicist, these versions constitute an ambitious reinterpretation of traditional masterpieces."--Boston Book Review "A speakable version of Sophocles's 'Philoctetes': as it were, after 25 years, a sequel to Pound's 'The Women of Trachis'." --Hugh Kenner, New York Times Book Review "A two-year project to publish the corpus of classical Greek drama in translations by an impressive array of contemporary poets. It may not be long before anyone who mentions that he is reading Sophocles in Greek can expect to be told, 'Oh, but you simply "must' read it in translation.'"--New Yorker "Don't look for the wild and woolly--these were put together by wordsmiths. . . . But they are a far cry from some of the stodgier translations."--Washington Post "The 12-volume set will offer readers new verse translations of the complete surviving tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, as well as the surviving comedies of Aristophanes and Menander. The complete line of Greek theater classics has not been offered to readers since 1938."--Publishers Weekly
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