A review by sjov
Bakkhai by Euripides, Anne Carson

5.0

"Grandfather, you look like a lampshade" is the most memorable thing Pentheus has said in any translation of the Bacchae. Carson's original poem at the beginning is wonderful, and her balance of the comic and the horrific in the script is amazing. That said, I'm glad I read Grene and Lattimore's stricter translation before I read this one.