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Procne

Procne( )
Author: Correr, Gregorio
Translator: Slavitt, David R.
ISBN:978-1-937402-34-1
Publication Date:May 2012
Publisher:Outpost19
Book Format:Ebook
List Price:USD $2.99
Book Description:

Procne is often compared to Medea, and the tragic turn here is no less fierce. When Procne learns her husband, Tereus, has dishonored her sister, she turns to their son, Itys, for her gruesome revenge. Gregorio Correr (1409-1464) penned the drama following Renaissance interest in Classical-era writing. David R. Slavitt's new verse translation, with a brief Foreword, sheds fresh light on this surprising and overlooked work.

Book Details
Detailed Subjects: Drama / General
Author Biography
Correr, Gregorio (Author)
David R. Slavitt was born in White Plains, New York in 1935. He received an AB and an MA from Columbia University. After graduating from college and beginning a Ph.D., he worked as a movie critic for Newsweek from the late 1950s through the mid-1960s. During this time, he published his first book of poetry, Suits for the Dead. His first novel, Rochelle, or Virtue Rewarded, was published in 1966.

He has written about 100 works of fiction, poetry, and poetry and drama in translation including Alice at 80, The Cock Book, Falling from Silence: Poems, The Latin Odes of Jean Dorat, Milton's Latin Poems, and Three Greenlandic Poets. He also writes under the names David Benjamin, Henry Lazarus, Lynn Meyer, and Henry Sutton. As Henry Sutton, he has written less "literary" works that have sold well such as The Exhibitionist and The Sacrifice: A Novel of the Occult.

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