Classical Drama with the Lovecrafts
Helios House Press is honoured to present a beautiful, original version of Euripides’ play Alcestis as interpreted by Sonia H. Greene & H.P. Lovecraft.
First premiered in 438 B.C., Alcestis is a classic Athenian tragedy of sacrifice, love, and loss. Whilst a very limited, holograph (facsimile of hand-written pages) edition of Greene and Lovecraft’s version of the play was produced in 1985, the play has never been published in a complete form—until now.
In looking at the originals and doing our due diligence to make sure we were representing the work appropriately, we came to believe both that Greene and Lovecraft collaborated quite a bit more on this work than previously thought, and that not only had the pair of them written a new prologue for the piece, but also presented after that a version of the play itself that was substantially different from other known translations, so we consulted with a classics scholar.
In the end, instead of the lovely but simple pamphlet containing Sonia and Lovecraft's version of Alcestis, we originally intended to produce, we are creating a casebound volume containing an explication of all of the new discoveries about this piece in the form of a paper by Helios Editor/Publisher N.R. Jenzen-Jones and classics scholar Carman Romano; Sonia and Lovecraft's edition of Alcestis, complete with their prologue, and newly commissioned illustrations by several of our favorite artists.
Bibliographic Information
Title: Alcestis: A Play
Author: Sonia H.G. Lovecraft & H.P. Lovecraft
Editor: N.R. Jenzen-Jones
Date of publication: 2024
Format: Pamphlet, 6 × 9 inches (152 × 229 mm)
Pages: 83 (TBC)
Language: English
ISBN: 978-1-911683-37-7
