Euripides' Alcestis

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Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes's version goes beyond translation to an inspired rethinking of the story in terms of his own vision of human suffering. Although he started working on this piece in 1993, he did not finish until a few months before his death in 1998. It is the culminatio...
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Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who is able to escape death because his wife, Alcestis, has volunteered to die in his place. Ted Hughes's version goes beyond translation to an inspired rethinking of the story in terms of his own vision of human suffering. Although he started working on this piece in 1993, he did not finish until a few months before his death in 1998. It is the culminatio...
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  • ISBN: 9780571263042
  • Number of pages: 52
  • Copy protection: Watermark
  • Publication Date: Jul 7, 2011
  • Publisher: FABER & FABER
  • Format: epub
  • Promo Label: New

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