By Sophocles
Oedipus the King • Antigone • Electra • Ajax
Trachinian girls • Philoctetes • Oedipus at Colonus
The maximum of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over one hundred twenty performs, surpassing his older modern Aeschylus and the more youthful Euripides in literary output in addition to within the variety of prizes provided his works. simply the seven performs during this quantity have survived intact. From the complicated drama of Antigone, the heroine keen to sacrifice lifestyles and love for a precept, to the mythic doom embodied through Oedipus, the uncommonly strong guy introduced down via the gods, Sophocles possessed a sad imaginative and prescient that, in Matthew Arnold’s word, “saw existence progressively and observed it whole.”
This one-volume paperback version of Sophocles’ whole works is a revised and modernized model of the recognized Jebb translation, which has been known as “the so much conscientiously wrought prose model of Sophocles in English.”*
*Moses Hadas
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Julius Beaufort, a freewheeling climber, may be the scoundrel of the piece. The novelist is knowingly leading us into melodrama, the dominant mode of the popular theater of the age she recreates, a theater of plays in which good and evil were clearly sorted out, not tainted by moral ambiguity or shaded feelings. As we read what has so often been praised as an historical novel, we must bear in mind the year it was composed, 1919. The Age of Innocence calls upon history to inform the present, and Wharton portrays a cast of clueless characters who could not conceive the slaughter of World War I or President Wilson舗s ill-fated proposal for the League of Nations.
Lovell Mingott, a large blonde lady in creaking satin, he sat down beside his betrothed, and said in a low tone: 舠I hope you舗ve told Madame Olenska that we舗re engaged? 舡 Miss Welland舗s face grew rosy as the dawn, and she looked at him with radiant eyes. 舡 He made no answer but that which his eyes returned, and she added, still more confidently smiling: 舠Tell my cousin yourself: I give you leave. 舡 She made way for him by pushing back her chair, and promptly, and a little ostentatiously, with the desire that the whole house should see what he was doing, Archer seated himself at the Countess Olenska舗s side.
At each turn when Newland is about to declare his love for Ellen Olenska, May trumps him. Wharton echoes May舗s manipulations in drawing us into the love story only to cut off the possibility of freedom. We may gasp at the end of a chapter in which Newland舗s wife wins another round: more melodrama, but without the easy solution of that genre which would render May demonic: She is a realist with a healthy desire for self-preservation. Looking at May舗s mother before their marriage, Newland 舠asked himself if May舗s face was doomed to thicken into the same middle-aged image of invincible innocence.