Dramaturgy Eight

Richard Claverhouse Jebb, was born 27th August 1841 in Dundee, Scotland. He received his education from Charterhouse School and at Trinity College, Cambridge. (Wikipedia)
In his professional life he was a Regius Professor of Greek and Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, was one of the foremost classicists of the Victorian era.
His editions of Sophocles plays appeared in the last fifteen years of the nineteenth century. They are distinguished by the sensitivity of Jebb's literary and dramatic interpretations, and the neat translation facing the Greek text. They have had a profound influence on subsequent Sophoclean scholarship. (Book Christian)
He is considered the unsurpassed translator into or from classical languages.
A short list of his works (via Wikipedia):
-The Characters of Theophrastus (1870), (text, introduction, English translation and commentary)
-The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeus (2nd ed., I893)
-Sophocles (3rd ed., 1893) (the seven plays, text, English translation and notes, future edition including the fragments was prevented by his death)
-Homer (3rd ed., 1888), (an introduction to the Iliad and Odyssey)




The reason we’re using Jebb’s translation is because he is considered to have the most complete translation. He also grasps the language in a way that reads better for actors and it communicates the ideas of the political struggle stronger then other editions/translations.

Jeb, Richard Claverhouse in Venn, J. & J. A., Alumni Cantabrigienses, Cambridge University Press, 10 vols, 1922–1958.



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