Tales from Ovid: Twenty-Four Passages from the "Metamorphoses" - Softcover

Hughes, Ted

 
9780571202256: Tales from Ovid: Twenty-Four Passages from the "Metamorphoses"
Softcover
ISBN 10: 057120225X ISBN 13: 9780571202256
Verlag: Faber & Faber, 2000

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A new dramatization for the stage of Ted Hughes's highly acclaimed translation of Ovid's Metamorphoses

When it was published in 1997, Tales from Ovid was immediately recognized as the best rendering of Ovid in generations, a classic in its own right and a major book in Ted Hughes's oeuvre. For Hughes, one of the most admired and widely read poets of our day, had translated twenty-four of Ovid's stories--legends connected by their transformational motifs--with the elegance and passion that distinguished his own poems.

His vigorous, fluid poetry is drama itself and demands to be spoken aloud. Tim Supple and Simon Reade take ten of the tales --including the stories of Echo and Narcissus, of Venus and Adonis, of Pyramus and Thisbe, among others--and transform them into elegant works for the stage. Erotic, violent, and magical, this dramatization of Tales from Ovid realizes the immense power of Hughes's original text, which Michael Hofmann celebrated in The Times (London) as "one of the great works of the century."

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Ted Hughes (1930-1998) was born in Yorkshire. His first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published in 1957 by Faber & Faber and was followed by many volumes of poetry and prose for adults and children. He received the Whitbread Book of the Year for two consecutive years for his last published collections of poetry, Tales from Ovid and Birthday Letters. He was Poet Laureate from 1984, and in 1998 he was appointed to the Order of Merit.

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Verlag
Faber & Faber
Erscheinungsdatum
2000
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
057120225X
ISBN 13 
9780571202256
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
144
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