Books for World Theater Day

Four thought-provoking masterworks for the theater by the Nobel Prize–winning author of The Stranger and The Plague, in a restorative new translation by Ryan Bloom that brings together, for the first time in English, Camus’s final versions of the plays, along with deleted scenes and alternate lines of dialogue.

In a sparkling new translation by Joel Agee, “Prometheus Bound”, one of the most unique and bewildering of the Greek tragedies, is a classic battle of the gods.

This is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted.

Here are “Oedipus the King”, “Oedipus at Colonus,” and “Antigone” in fresh new versions for contemporary readers and audiences.