Electra and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations

Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life, only seven survive. This volume collects four of them, all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief of a young woman for her father, Agamemnon, who has been killed by her mother's lover. Ajax depicts the enigma of power and weakness vis-àvis the fall of the great hero. Women of Trachis dramatizes the tragic love and error of Heracles's deserted wife, Deianeira; Philoctetes examines the conflict between physical force and moral strength.

For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

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• The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
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• The Bacchae and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
• Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
• Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
• Wit: A Play
• Ethics for the New Millennium
• Electra and Other Plays: Euripides (Penguin Classics)
• Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)