Word: colonus
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Fitzgerald is widely known as a translator of classical Greek writings. He has translated into English Homer's "Odyssey," Sophocles' "Oedipus at Colonus," and, with Dudely Fitts, Sophocles' "Oedipus Rex," Sophocles' "Antigone" and Euripides "Alcestis." In 1961 he won the first Bollingen Award for Translation for his work on Homer's "Odyssey...
...ingredients for the second half of the program were the same, since Hamlin used almost exactly the same cast and made the expectable substitution of John Lithgow for Bramhall as Oedipus the old man. In its own way, the performance of Colonus in the Fitzgerald translation was much better, but it was also much less satisfying. Colonus is a much more complicated tragedy than the earlier Rex, and the character of the aged, sightless, beaten man makes almost impossible demands on the actor...
...shattering booms of Zeus' thunder; even Laura Esterman as Ismene, with emotion shivering in every syllable, was drowned out by the noise. Friedman as Creon again, Richard Backus as Theseus, and David Blocker, who replaced a less talented Lorenzo Weisman of Rex as the leader of the Colonus chorus, supplied that immeasurably graceful skill of speech which brought me back from the visual, just as I had wanted...