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Euripides' Alcestis
By Claire Charles (editor) and Ted Hughes (trans)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher Farrar Straus & Giroux
Publication date September 1, 2000
Binding Paperback
Book category Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13 9780374527266
ISBN-10 0374527261
Dimensions 0.50 by 5.75 by 8.25 in.
Weight 0.35 lbs.
Original list price $13.00
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In the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity. His Tales from Ovid was called "one of the great works of our century" (Michael Hofmann, The Times, London), his Oresteia of Aeschylus is considered the difinitive version, and his Phèdrewas acclaimed on stage in New York as well as London. Hughes's version of Euripides's Alcestis, the last of his translations, has the great brio of those works, and it is a powerful and moving conclusion to the great final phase of Hughes's career.

Euripides was, with Aeschylus and Sophocles, one of the greatest of Greek dramatists. Alcestis tells the story of a king's grief for his wife, Alcestis, who has given her young life so that he may live. As translated by Hughes, the story has a distinctly modern sensibility while retaining the spirit of antiquity. It is a profound meditation on human mortality.

Ted Hughes's last book of poems, Birthday Letters, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. He was Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II and lived in Devon, England until he died in 1998.



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With Claire Charles (other contributor) | from Farrar Straus & Giroux (September 1, 2000); titled "Euripides' Alcestis"
9780374527266 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $13.00
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About: In the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity.
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Book cover for 9780374527266 Book cover for 9781595424181 Book cover for 9781595424891 Book cover for 9781595425065
 
24 edition from Foundation Center (September 3, 2015)
9781595425065 | details & prices | 1751 pages | 8.25 × 10.75 × 3.00 in. | 7.30 lbs | List price $75.00
23 edition from Foundation Center (July 31, 2014)
9781595424891 | details & prices | 1751 pages | 8.50 × 10.75 × 3.00 in. | 7.30 lbs | List price $75.00
22 edition from Foundation Center (July 1, 2013)
9781595424181 | details & prices | 1704 pages | 8.50 × 10.75 × 3.00 in. | 7.05 lbs | List price $75.00
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With Ted Hughes (other contributor) | from Farrar Straus & Giroux (September 1, 2000); titled "Euripides' Alcestis"
9780374527266 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.35 lbs | List price $13.00
This edition also contains Euripides'' Alcestis
About: In the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity.

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