Electra and Other Plays

<b>Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist in sparkling new translations</b> <p/>Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the course of his long life only seven survive. This volume collects four of them all newly translated. Electra portrays the grief of a young woman for her father Agamemnon who has been killed by her mother's lover. <i>Ajax</i> depicts the enigma of power and weakness vis-àvis the fall of the great hero. <i>Women of Trachis</i> dramatizes the tragic love and error of Heracles's deserted wife Deianeira; <i>Philoctetes</i> examines the conflict between physical force and moral strength. <p/>For more than seventy years Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1700 titles Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.