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Six Tragedies
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Gore'd-up, horror-movie versions of the Greek classics. I missed some of the subtlety of the Greek originals, but his version of Trojan Women in particular was very powerful. Well worth reading, if for no other reason than to see that torture-porn is nothing new....
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April 5, 2018
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"These are like the Hollywood versions of their Greek predecessors - added CGI sex ‘n violence baby"
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April 17, 2018
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"God - his scene of Oedipus plucking out his eyes is like the torture-porn, graphic horror version of the original. Unsurprising really given he was writing during the fucked up days of Caligula and Nero."
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Apr 24, 2018 09:22AM
nice. am currently working through the loeb versions of his tragedies. am digging the revision to the greek originals, at least so far for medea, oedipus, hercules furens, troades, & hippolytus.
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sologdin wrote: "nice. am currently working through the loeb versions of his tragedies. am digging the revision to the greek originals, at least so far for medea, oedipus, hercules furens, troades, & hippolytus."cool! Yeah it is really interesting to compare them - certainly a completely different emphasis/focus. They also feel less "play-like" to me - more long descriptive (often gory!) speeches - I wonder how much action on-stage action there was
