"And the Half-True Rhyme Is Love": Modern Verse Drama and the Classics

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From: Parnassus : Poetry in Review
Date: 20050101
Author:Kirchwey, Karl

"And the Half-True Rhyme Is Love": Modern Verse Drama and the Classics Seamus Heaney. The Cure at Troy: A Version of Sophocles Philoctetes.Farrar, Straus & Giroux 1991. 81 pp. $20.00

Sophocles. Philoctetes. Translated by Carl Phillips with an introduction and notes by Diskin clay. Oxford University Press 2003. 118 pp. $10.95 (paper)

Antigone. A version by Bertolt Brecht, based on the German translation by Friedrich Holderlin, and translated into English by Judith Malina. Applause Theatre Book Publishers 1984. 64 pp. (Out of print.)

Jean Anouilh. Antigone: A Tragedy. Translated by Lewis ...

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