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Modern versions of three Greek tragedies; Euripides' The Trojan Women, Euripides' Medea, and Sophocles' Antigone. ""There is an Irish lability to Kennelly's words, a kind of garrulous quality that makes these versions uniquely Irish when compared with the stark, 'classical' quality of some other versions. Full of war, death, divorce, and imprisonment, these plays seem as ripped from the headlines as nightly television dramas, as ubiquitous as nightmares."" --Booklist
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Brenden Kennelly was Professor of Modern Literature at Trinity College, Dublin from 1973 until his retirement in 2005.
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The wildly prolific Kennelly embodies that lovely, untranslatable Irish word flaithiulacht--roughly, "generosity," of a voluptuous, sensuous kind that invokes the name of the goddess of female sovereignty. Kennelly is the most feminist of his generation of Irish male poets, speaking like Yeats in believably strong female voices in some of his poems and embracing the women's perspectives in these unforgettable translations of Antigone, Medea, and The Trojan Women. Translations? Interpretations or adaptations would be a better term, for despite being universal in their encounters with war and men's betrayals, Kennelly's Greek women also become heroines as Irish as doomed Deirdre of the Sorrows and the protective sister, Fionnuala. There is an Irish lability to Kennelly's words, a kind of garrulous quality that makes these versions uniquely Irish when compared with the stark, "classical" quality of some other versions. Full of war, death, divorce, and imprisonment, these plays seem as ripped from the headlines as nightly television dramas, as ubiquitous as nightmares. Patricia Monaghan
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- Publication date2006
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