King Richard III is one of Shakespeare's most popular and frequently-performed plays. Janis Lull's introduction to this new edition, which is based...
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Jul 18, 2011
Elizabeth
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Cambridge, being Cambridge, likes its theater with a political statement. No, something stronger is needed here. The denizens of Cambridge like everything with a political statement. It's not just the possibility of the local Harvard professor mixing it up with the police or the latest decision to increase the price of parking permits to fund green initiatives (I think it was for more bike lanes this time) or that the city (that would be the rest of us tax payers) is off-setting the federal tax
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Dec 21, 2011
Jessica
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this series, The Greek Tragedy in New Translations, pairs scholars & poets for bangin' translations of plays by aeschylus, euripides, sophocles, etc & the editors' foreword itself got me pretty psyched; these guys seem to be really hardcore about their convictions regarding quality translations, & i'm totally going to check out some others.
that said, in this translation pevear steps down from bein' all scholarly-like & lets herbert golder do that work, & omg does he ever; it's funny More...
that said, in this translation pevear steps down from bein' all scholarly-like & lets herbert golder do that work, & omg does he ever; it's funny More...
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May 07, 2010
Roger
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Aias (Ajax in Latin) is angered by being robbed of the honor of Achilles armor by a council of Greeks who instead award it to Odysseus. Planning to murder the Greeks in their beds, he instead is driven mad by Athena and kills cattle instead (believing them to be the Greeks who offended him). When he comes out of his madness in the morning and realizes what he's done, he's humiliated, and the only course of action he sees is suicide. Now suicide for Greeks was not considered heroic like it was
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Jul 18, 2011
Cristián
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Me gusta mucho volver a los clásicos, siempre encuentro conflictos y temáticas casi inherentes al alma humana.
Algunos citas para que se den una idea:
"Los de menguado corazón no saben estimar el bien que tienen en sus manos hasta que no alguien se lo ha arrebatado"
"Todo hombre ha de entenderlo: no importa su enorme estatura, no importa su valentía, también él puede sucumbir al más ligero desliz. Temor y respeto de si mismo juntamente, son lo que dan en More...
Algunos citas para que se den una idea:
"Los de menguado corazón no saben estimar el bien que tienen en sus manos hasta que no alguien se lo ha arrebatado"
"Todo hombre ha de entenderlo: no importa su enorme estatura, no importa su valentía, también él puede sucumbir al más ligero desliz. Temor y respeto de si mismo juntamente, son lo que dan en More...
Apr 27, 2011
Ray
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Nov 01, 2009
Charles
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Feb 08, 2012
Steve
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The story of the death of Ajax, Greek champion and hero of the Trojan war. After Achilles magic armor is awarded to Odysseus over him after neither can win it over the other in competition, Ajax collapses and wakes up enraged at this dishonor. Enchanted by Athena he mistakes the sheep heard for his "enemies" (including Odysseus and Agamemnon)and kills and tortures them. Coming to his senses, realizing what he has done and the dishonor it will bring to him Ajax kills himself by falli
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Jan 25, 2012
Clay
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Compared to my reading of Oedipus, Ajax presented a more mature Greek understanding of Fate. The maturity I believe ironically is its ambiguity. The interpretation of Ajax's fate was different between Menelaus, Teucer, and Tecmessa. It was honorable? It was justice? He decided his fate? It was a consequence of providence? Very enlightening.
Apr 26, 2011
Mike
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One of the great plays. What happens when a man loses his honor? Tragedy. But why is a Greek name rendered in Latin? What a goofy translation tradition we have, especially when Odysseus is still called Olysseus and not Ulysses. Sheesh!
Oct 27, 2008
Anthony
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Marvelous. John Tipman makes some pretty striking choices as to his translation (or, in his eyes, "interpretation"), but they work. His afterword does a great job explaining it; the frentic pace of the language, the ethereal chorus, its all there laid out in the clear, concise language of explaination. And the paly itself is just a knockout. Sophocles has written some of the most timeless plays in Western Civilization, but has outdone himself with Ajax. The inversions, the metaphor, th
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Jan 11, 2012
Yerneh
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Favorite Line: "For I see the true state of us all that live -- We are dim shapes, no more, and weightless shadow."
Oct 18, 2008
Curt
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Picked up on the strength of this review in the Nation (http://www.thenation.com/doc/20080721/wi...). John Tipton's new translation has a punchy contemporary quality that I had to check out. I never read ANY classic Greek stuff in school, so have no basis for relative comparison. It's a very dark tale - quite relevant to contemporary warfare stupidy - and in this form, with the chorus dropping lines that could just as easily have come from David Mamet or Jon Stewart, really grabbed me.
Mar 20, 2010
Naomi
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For some strange reason I am a fan of Sophocles. Ever since I read Antigone... Good stuff.
Mar 16, 2007
yevgeniy
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the last hero of the age of heroes dies, as his code commands, by his own hand, and a new age begins, where now the hero is the strategist, Odysseus, not the straight forward, no-talk-all-action Aias... this marks the transition of the whole western world into the age of kings and generals, no longer the age of warriors
Apr 19, 2007
علی
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نمایش نامه های "الکترا"، "زنان تراخیس"، "فیلوکتتس" و "آژاکس" نیز توسط محمد سعیدی ترجمه شده و در 1339 بنگاه ترجمه و نشر کتاب آنها را چاپ و منتشر کرده است.
Jul 14, 2007
Namrirru
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I like to think that he killed himself out of grief for all the animals he tortured and killed, not just out of shame of his madness.
I like Sophocles the best out of Greek tragedians. His characters are complex. And have depth and humanity.
I like Sophocles the best out of Greek tragedians. His characters are complex. And have depth and humanity.
Nov 07, 2008
Tracy
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I read this in grad school for a mythology class, but I honestly don't recall a thing about it.
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