Alcestis

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 lo