The Bacchae of Euripides

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* Euripides

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Pulitzer Prize-winning poet C.K. Williams presents this fluent and accessible version of the Athenian playwright Euripides's great tragedy. Based on the Greek myth of the god Dionysus's punishment of King Pentheus and his mother Agave, Williams' The Bacchae of Euripides is a unique interpretation of one of the most celebrated plays in the history of dramatic theater. With an Introduction by Martha Nussbaum, award-winning author of The Fragility of Goodness: Luck and Ethics in Greek Tragedy and Philosophy

Author Biography:

C. K. Williams (1936-2015) published twenty-two books of poetry including, Flesh and Blood, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award; Repair, which won the Pulitzer Prize in Poetry; and The Singing, winner of the National Book Award. Williams was awarded the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize in 2005. He wrote a critical study, On Whitman; a memoir, Misgivings; and two books of essays, Poetry and Consciousness and In Time: Poets, Poems, and the Rest.

Release date NZ

August 23rd, 1990

Author

* Euripides

Audience

General (US: Trade)

Contributor

Introduction by Martha Nussbaum

Pages

144

Dimensions

150x226x13

ISBN-13

9780374522063

Product ID

3862196

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