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Elektra

Authors
- Sophokles
Publisher
- Nick Hern Books

Editions: 6
Series: 1 of 49
Language: English
Format
Category: Lyric Poetry & Drama

'There is something bad here, growing. Day and night I watch it. Growing.' Elektra, haunted by her father's assassination, is tormented by grief; a fierce instinct for survival; and a thirst for vengeance. When her long-lost brother Orestes at last returns, she urges him to take savage and terrifying action, but at what cost? This edition of Sophokles' electrifying and timeless play features the magisterial translation by Nobel Prize-winning poet, essayist and translator Anne Carson. It was published alongside Daniel Fish's production starring Brie Larson, Stockard Channing, Greg Hicks and Patrick Vaill, which opened at the Theatre Royal Brighton in 2025, before transferring at the Duke of York's Theatre in London's West End.

Translators: Anne Carson

Release date

Ebook: 13 February 2025

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