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 PhilosophyBinding Type: Paperback
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Published: 08/23/1990
ISBN: 9780374522063
Pages: 144
Weight: 0.45lbs
Size: 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.50d