A Woman of Lemnos

A Woman of Lemnos

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This first English publication of Maria Lampadaridou Pothou’s work is a collection of her critically acclaimed writing. It includes a revisionist version of a Sophoclean tragedy, Antigone or The Nostalgia of Tragedy, which was written to protest Greek dictatorship. Praised by Samuel Beckett, Pothou wrote the other two featured plays, The Glass Box and Bidding You Farewell, in the tradition of the Theater of the Absurd. Also included are poems from The Mystic Passage.

Maria Lampadaridou Pothou has written plays, poetry, essays, and short stories. She has been honored twice by the Academy of Athens for her novels Maroula of Athens and With the Storm Lamp. She lives in Greece. Rhoda Helfman Kaufman is a professor of theater arts at California State University. She is author of Only Prostitutes Marry In May: Four Plays by Dacia Maraini. She lives in Haywood, California.

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Dimensions 1 × 5 × 8 in