Ian McAuslan – författare

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encouraged to engage with the text through detailed commentaries, including suggestions for discussion and analysis. In addition, numerous practical questions stimulate ideas on staging and encourage students to explore the play's dramatic qualities. Oedipus Tyrannus is suitable for students of both Classical Civilisation and Drama. Useful features include full synopsis of the play, commentary alongside translation for easy reference and a comprehensive introduction to the Greek Theatre. Oedipus Tyrannus is aimed primarily at A-level and undergraduate students in the UK, and college students in North America.

Greek tragedy remains a subject of central concern, not only in classics, English and world literature courses at school and university, but also in the live theatre, where new translations of the plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides continue to play to capacity audiences. This volume is the second to be published in the "Greece & Rome Studies" series. It collects together 17 studies of Greek tragedy by leading authorities in the field, published between 1972 and 1989 in the journal "Greece & Rome" (published by the Oxford University Press for the Classical Association). The articles include treatments of individual plays by all three playwrights, studies of character and imagery, and to begin with, an examination of recent critical assumptions. Aeschylus is represented by four articles, Sophocles by five, and Euripides by six. All are aimed at non-linguistic as well as linguistic students of classical literature.