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  • Published: 1 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9780307949738
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $34.99

All That You've Seen Here Is God

New Versions of Four Greek Tragedies Sophocles' Ajax, Philoctetes, Women of Trachis; Aeschylus' Prometheus Bound




Contemporary translations of four Greek tragedies that speak across time and connect readers and audiences with universal themes of war, death, and suffering. A VINTAGE ORIGINAL

These contemporary translations of four Greek tragedies speak across time and connect readers and audiences with universal themes of war, trauma, suffering, and betrayal. Under the direction of Bryan Doerries, they have been performed for tens of thousands of combat veterans, as well as prison and medical personnel around the world. Striking for their immediacy and emotional impact, Doerries brings to life these ancient plays, like no other translations have before.

  • Published: 1 September 2015
  • ISBN: 9780307949738
  • Imprint: Knopf US
  • Format: Paperback
  • Pages: 480
  • RRP: $34.99

About the authors

Bryan Doerries

Bryan Doerries is a writer, director, and translator. He is the founder of Theater of War, a project that presents readings of ancient Greek plays to service members, veterans, and their families to help them initiate conversations about the visible and invisible wounds of war. He is also the co-founder of Outside the Wire, a social-impact company that uses theater and a variety of other media to address pressing public health and social issues, such as combat-related psychological injury, end-of-life care, prison reform, domestic violence, political violence, recovery from natural and man-made disasters, substance abuse, and addiction. A self-described “evangelist” for classical literature and its relevance to our lives today, Doerries uses age-old approaches to help individuals and communities heal after suffering and loss.

Praise for All That You've Seen Here Is God

"We live in an age defined by mythic catastrophe. We live in an age of perpetual war. We therefore live in an age that requires drama of the stature contained between these covers. Bryan Doerries' brave, spare, inspired translations of Sophocles and Aeschylus have the power to bring us into healing confrontation with ancient, brutal, and essential truth. These are plays for our time." --Doug Hughes, Tony-award winning director of Doubt

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