Euripides' Alcestis

Awards:   Short-listed for Whitbread Prize (Poetry) 1999 Shortlisted for Whitbread Prize (Poetry) 1999.
Author:   Ted Hughes ,  Ted Hughes
Publisher:   Faber & Faber
Edition:   Main
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9780571205806


Pages:   96
Publication Date:   04 September 2000
Format:   Paperback
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Euripides' Alcestis


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Awards

  • Short-listed for Whitbread Prize (Poetry) 1999
  • Shortlisted for Whitbread Prize (Poetry) 1999.

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Alcestis is the story of a king, Admetus, who escapes death when his wife, Alcestis, volunteers 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 it until a few months before his death in 1998. It is the culmination of an extraordinarily productive period of work, which saw the publication of Tales from Ovid (1997), Birthday Letters (1998) - winners, consecutively, of the Whitbread Book of the Year - and The Oresteia (1999).

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Author:   Ted Hughes ,  Ted Hughes
Publisher:   Faber & Faber
Imprint:   Faber & Faber
Edition:   Main
Dimensions:   Width: 12.50cm , Height: 0.80cm , Length: 19.70cm
Weight:   0.110kg
ISBN:  

9780571205806


ISBN 10:   0571205801
Pages:   96
Publication Date:   04 September 2000
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   To order   Availability explained
Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us.

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In the judgement of posterity Hughes's versions of Greek and Latin classics may turn out to be among his greatest achievements. Alcestis is Euripides's drama of the king doomed to an early death whose wife volunteers to take his place. Hughes recreates the work in a style that is highly contemporary ('I killed the electro-technocrats, those Titans, Who made the thunderbolt', boasts Apollo) but appropriately dignified and magisterial. This inspired retelling of the play offers Hughes's own perspective on human suffering and was completed just before he died. (Kirkus UK)


Author Information

Ted Hughes was born on 17 August 1930 in Mytholmroyd, a small mill town in West Yorkshire. His father made portable wooden buildings. The family moved to Mexborough, a coal-mining town in South Yorkshire, when Hughes was seven. His parents took over a newsagent and tobacconist shop, and eventually he went to the local grammar school.In 1948 Hughes won an Open Exhibition to Pembroke College, Cambridge. Before going there, he served two years National Service in the Royal Air Force. Between leaving Cambridge and becoming a teacher, he worked at various jobs, finally as a script-reader for Rank at their Pinewood Studios.In 1956 Hughes married the American poet Sylvia Plath, who died in 1963, and they had two children. He remarried in 1970. He was awarded the OBE in 1977, created Poet Laureate in December 1984 and appointed to the Order of Merit in 1998. He died in October 1998.Ted Hughes's first book, The Hawk in the Rain, was published by Fabe

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