Prometheus Bound

Aeschylus (Page, Denys L.)

ISBN 10: 0571142257 / ISBN 13: 9780571142255

Verlag: Faber and Faber, London, United Kingdom, 1990

Beschreibung

Paperback original. Minor rubbing to card covers, otherwise excellent.

Bestandsnummer des Verkäufers 003757

Bibliografische Details

• Titel: Prometheus Bound
• Verlag: Faber and Faber, London, United Kingdom
• Erscheinungsjahr: 1990
• Sprache: Englisch
• ISBN-10: 0571142257
• ISBN-13: 9780571142255
• Einband: Wraps
• Auflage: First Printing.
• Zustand: Near Fine
• Buchtyp: Book
• Verkäuferkataloge:
  • Classics

Über diesen Titel

Inhaltsangabe

After the success of The Riot Act, his version of Sophocles's Antigone, Tom Paulin turned his formidable powers of transformation on Aeschylus's Prometheus Bound. Commissioned by the Open University, Paulin produced a reworking of the myth, deploying a fluent and sinewy diction laced with the vernacular. As drama it is a brilliant object lesson in what is inessential. Plot and character, even action, are secondary to a gripping, inventive and quasi-futuristic treatment of burning contemporary issues - feminism, the corruption of power and authoritarian politics.

Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Tom Paulin was born in Leeds in 1949 but grew up in Belfast, and was educated at the universities of Hull and Oxford. He has published seven collections of poetry as well as a Selected Poems 1972-1990, two major anthologies, two versions of Greek drama and several critical works, including The Day-Star of Liberty: William Hazlitt's Radical Style. Well-known for his appearances on the BBC's Late Review, he is also the G. M. Young Lecturer in English Literature at Hertford College, Oxford.