Elektra by Sophokles

Elektra by Sophokles

The timeless Greek tragedy, in a magisterial translation by award-winning poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson. Published alongside the West End production in 2025.

'Carson's translation is a jewel: caustic, forceful, filling the air with memorable images without losing the pulse of action'

* Observer *

'Penetrating.. lean, charged and fresh... translated by Canadian poet Anne Carson, with crystalline verse... this is a play about women, power and patriarchy... an oblique lesson for our times'

* Guardian *

'Stripped back... full of strangeness and insight... Anne Carson's poetic, prickly translation'

* WhatsOnStage *

'Anne Carson's vivid translation [is] rigorous but very actable, violently poetic but not above the occasional joke or injection of contemporary irony... riveting'

* Globe and Mail *

Sophokles (or Sophocles) (c.496–405 BC) was an ancient Greek tragedian. Of his more than 120 plays, only seven have survived in a complete form: Ajax, Antigone, Women of Trachis, Oedipus Rex, Electra, Philoctetes and Oedipus at Colonus. Anne Carson is a Canadian poet, essayist, translator, classicist, and professor. She has taught classics, comparative literature, and creative writing at universities across the United States and Canada, including McGill, Michigan, NYU, and Princeton. With more than twenty books of writings and translations published to date, Carson was awarded Guggenheim and MacArthur Fellowships, has won the Lannan Literary Award, two Griffin Poetry Prizes, the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Princess of Asturias Award, the Governor General's Award for English-language poetry, and the PEN/Nabokov Award, and was appointed a Member of the Order of Canada in 2005 for her contribution to Canadian letters. Author photo by Peter Smith

SKU	Unavailable
ISBN 13	9781839044465
ISBN 10	1839044462
Title	Elektra
Author	Sophokles
Series	Nhb Classic Plays
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Nick Hern Books
Year published	2025-02-13
Number of pages	112
Cover note	Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary.