Hippolytus Temporizes & Ion: Adaptations of Two Plays by Euripides

by H.D.

Book Overview

Brilliant reworkings of Euripides' classic dramas by the great modernist poet H.D., now available in one volume. H.D.'s 1927 adaptation of Euripides's Hippolytus Temporizes and her 1937 translation of Ion appeared midpoint in her career. These two verse dramas can both be considered as "freely adapted" from plays by Euripides; they constitute a commentary in action, and in this regard resemble the Oedipus plays of W. B. Yeats and Ezra...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811215539
• ISBN13: 9780811215534
• Release Date: December 2003
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 278 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 8.0"