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Norma Jeane Baker of Troy

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy
作者:Anne Carson
出版社:Oberon Modern Plays
出版年:2019-04
ISBN:9781786827616
行业:其它
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内容简介

Norma Jeane Baker of Troy is a partly spoken, partly sung performance piece by poet, essayist, and scholar Anne Carson, and an exploration of the lives and myths of Marilyn Monroe and Helen of Troy―iconic beauties who lived millennia apart. A thrilling and thoughtful meditation on the destabilising and destructive power of beauty, this had its world premiere at The Shed in New York City, starring Ben Whishaw and Renée Fleming.

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作者简介

Anne Carson was born in Canada and teaches ancient Greek for a living. She has adapted The Bakkhai for the Almeida Theatre. Classic Stage Company in New York has produced Anne Carson’s An Oresteia (a trilogy adapted from Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Sophocles’ Electra and Euripides’ Orestes) in repertory. Works include: Autobiography of Red; Red Doc>; Antigonick; Nox; If Not, Winter: Fragments of Sappho (translation); The Beauty of the Husband; Men in the Off Hours; Economy of the Unlost; Plainwater:Essays and Poetry; Glass, Irony and God; Eros the Bittersweet: An Essay; Decreation: Poetry, Essays, Opera; Grief Lessons: Four Plays by Euripides (translation). Carson is a MacArthur Fellow; she has received the Lannan Prize, the T.S. Eliot Prize, the Pushcart Prize, the Griffin Poetry Prize (twice-awarded), and was an Anna-Maria Kellen Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin, Germany.

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Sometimes I think language should cover its own eyes when it speaks,

Oh my darlings, they tell you you're born with a precious pearl. Truth is, it's a disaster to be a girl.

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