Opis: Alcestis - Euripides Euripides

Excerpt from Alcestis: And Other Plays

The most poetical translation of Euripides into any tongue, Shelley's radiant version of the Cyclops, which opens the present volume, stands easily at the head of all our English plays from the Greek. Shelley probably made it about 1818-19. Writing to Leigh Hunt, November 1819, he spoke of the Greek plays "tempting him to throw over their perfect and glowing forms the grey veil of my own words." In his Essays and Studies Mr Swinburne, after pointing out some of the gaps and errors in Shelley's rendering, due in part to the imperfect text the translator had used, says: While revising the version of the Cyclops I have felt again, and more keenly, the old delight of wonder at its matchless grace of unapproachable beauty, its strength, ease, delicate simplicity and sufficiency."

Mr Swinburne has not by any means spared the good fame of Euripides himself, regarded as a dramatist; and Mr Swinburne's pronouncement is of a temper which, until very recently, might be held typical of the modern critical attitude. But now, thanks to Dr. Verrall, Professor Gilbert Murray and other writers, a very marked reaction has set in.

We might quote opinion, indeed from many brilliant scholars who have helped to reverse the Euripidean current. The old fashion, says Mr Way, of "disparaging his genius (in which Schlegel led the way, giving all the weight of his authority to a sentence which others were too uncritical or too timorous to revise) is now utterly discredited.

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Szczegóły: Alcestis - Euripides Euripides

Nazwa: Alcestis And Other Plays (Classic Reprint)
Autor: Euripides Euripides
Wydawnictwo: FB &c Ltd
Kod paskowy: 9781440069680
Języki: angielski
Ilość stron: 300
Format: 15.2x22.9cm
Oprawa: Miękka

Recenzje: Alcestis - Euripides Euripides