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3 volumes (8 unnumbered pages, xxviii, cxx, 422 pages ; 540 pages ; 478 pages, 2 unnumbered pages) ; 27 cm
Translations of plays by Aeschylus, Aristophanes, Euripides, Seneca, and Sophocles, analyzed and compared with plays by Racine, Corneille, and Rotrou on similar subjects.
From half t.p. pages, v. 1, Oedipus / Sophocles -- Electra / Sophocles -- Philoctetes / Sophocles -- Hippolitus / Euripides -- Iphigenia in Aulis / Euripides -- v. 2, Iphigenia in Taurus / Euripides -- Alcestis / Euripides -- The Greek theatre, part the second, the tragedies of Eschylus [Prometheus, The Suppliants, The Seven chiefs at the siege of Thebes, Agamemnon, the Coephores, The Eumenides, The Persians] -- The tragedies of Sophocles [The Trachiniae, King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colone, Antigone, Ajax distracted, Philoctetes, Electra] -- The tragedies of Euripides [Ion, The Bacchanalians, Medea, Hippolitus, Alcestis, Hercules Mad, The Phenicians, The suppliants, Iphigenia in Aulis, Rhesus, The Trojans, Hecuba, The Heraclides, Electra, Orestes, Andromache, Iphigenia in Tauris, Helena] -- v. 3, [continuation of v. 2] -- The Greek theatre part the third -- The comedies of Aristophanes.
translated by Mrs. Charlotte Lennox [and others].
A mixture of complete and incomplete translations, some in verse, with versions by additional writers and critical commentary. For a more detailed guide to contents, see the table of contents in the 1730 French version, v. 1, p. clxj-clxv, cf. OCoLC 657843097.
The general preface written by John Boyle, Earl of Cork and Orrery; the "Discourse upon the Theatre of the Greeks," the "Original of Tragedy" and the "Parallel of the Theatres" translated by him; the "Discourse on Greek Comedy" and the general conclusion translated by Samuel Johnson, Aristophanes' "Frogs" by Gregory Sharpe, Euripides' "Cyclops" by James Grainger, and the "Discourse upon the Cyclops" by John Bourryau.
Signatures: Volume 1: pi⁴ a-c⁴ d², ²a-p⁴ B-3G⁴ 3H⁴ ( -3H4); volume 2: pi² B-3Y⁴ chi²; volume 3: pi² B-3P⁴
The Cushing Library/Rare Books copy was acquired as part of the Lois Goddard Morrison Collection of Eighteenth Century Literature.
The Cushing Library/Rare Books/Morrison Collection copy is re-bound in modern brown binding with spine title in gold letters: Brumoy's Greek theatre.