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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, Sophocles' The Three Theban Plays are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. This Penguin Classics edition is translated by Robert Fagles... -
Six Tragedies by Seneca
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.53Phaedra * Oedipus * Medea * Trojan Women * Hercules Furens * Thyestes Seneca's plays are the product of a sensational, frightening, and oppressive period of history. Tutor to the emperor Nero,... -
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants by Aeschylus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from... -
Electra and Other Plays by Sophocles
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Demonstrating Sophocles' aptitude for humanising figures from Greek myth and transforming simple fables into complex high tragedy, Electra and Other Plays is translated by David Raeburn with an... -
The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality... -
Antigone; Oedipus the King; Electra by Sophocles
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their... -
The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.30Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician... -
Greek Tragedies 1: Aeschylus: Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound; Sophocles: Oedipus the King, Antigone; Euripides: Hippolytus by David Grene
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £11.40Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They... -
Antigone by Sophocles
RRP: £4.00Booksplease Price: £3.00'It's a dreadful thing to yield...but resist now?Lay my pride bare to the blows of ruin?That's dreadful too.'The remarkable story of Greek tragedy's most intrepid heroine.Introducing Little Black... -
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides by Aeschylus
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The only trilogy in Greek drama that survives from antiquity, Aeschylus' The Oresteia is translated by Robert fagles with an introduction, notes and glossary written in collaboration with W.B... -
Antigone by Jean Anouilh
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.00Antigone was originally produced in Paris in 1942, when France was occupied and part of Hitler's Europe. The play depicts an authoritarian regime which mirrors the predicament of the French people of... -
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RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £1.97King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/AntigoneThree towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynastyThe legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles... -
The Theban Plays by Sophocles
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31King Oedipus/Oedipus at Colonus/AntigoneThree towering works of Greek tragedy depicting the inexorable downfall of a doomed royal dynastyThe legends surrounding the house of Thebes inspired Sophocles... -
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This... -
The Eclogues and Georgics by Virgil
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.01The Eclogues, ten short pastoral poems, were composed between approximately 42 and 39 BC, during the time of the 'Second' Triumvirate of Lepidus, Anthony, and Octavian. In them Virgil subtly blended... -
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Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780140441291 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £2.09Medea/Hecabe/Electra/HeraclesFour devastating Greek tragedies showing the powerful brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatredThe first playwright to depict suffering without reference to... -
Pygmalion (Collins Classics) by George Bernard Shaw 9780008480066
RRP: £3.99Booksplease Price: £3.77HarperCollins is proud to present its incredible range of best-loved, essential classics. George Bernard Shaw's classic play and satire of the British class system, first performed in 1913... -
Antigone by Anne Carson
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £7.55When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say... -
The Plays and Fragments by Menander
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Menander was the founding father of European comedy. From Ralph Roister Doister to What the Butler Saw, from Henry Fielding to P. G. Wodehouse, the stock motifs and characters can be traced back to... -
The Burial at Thebes by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.78Commissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, The Burial at Thebes is Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, Antigone - whose eponymous... -
Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.88The Acharnians/The Clouds/Lysistrata'We women have the salvation of Greece in our hands'Writing at a time of political and social crisis in Athens, the ancient Greek comic playwright Aristophanes was... -
Oedipus the King by Sophocles 9780226768687
Booksplease Price: £8.00Available for the first time as an independent work, David Grene's legendary translation of "Oedipus the King" renders Sophocles' Greek into cogent, vivid, and poetic English for a new generation to... -
Oresteia by Aeschylus 9780199537815
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72Agamemnon *Libation Bearers *Eumenides Aeschylus' Oresteia is the only trilogy to survive from Greek tragedy, and the religious and moral ideas it enacts afterwards influenced a great dramatic... -
The Oresteia by Ted Hughes 9780571179961
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.97The Oresteia comprises three of the greatest plays of all time: Agamemnon, The Cheophori and The Eumenides. Concerned with the immediate aftermath of the Trojan War as it affects the accursed royal... -
Heracles and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Alcestis * Heracles * Children of Heracles * Cyclops Euripides wrote about timeless themes, of friendship and enmity, hope and despair, duty and betrayal. The first three plays in this volume are... -
Oedipus the King and Other Tragedies: Oedipus the King, Aias, Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.72Oedipus the King * Aias * Philoctetes * Oedipus at Colonus Sophocles stands as one of the greatest dramatists of all time, and one of the most influential on artists and thinkers over the... -
The Faber Pocket Guide to Greek and Roman Drama by John Burgess 9780571219063
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23An essential, refreshingly accessible guide to Greek and Roman drama containing entries for forty plays by all the major dramatists in the classical world - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides,... -
Oresteia: Agamemnon by Aiskhylos; Elektra by Sophokles; Orestes by Euripides by Anne Carson 9780865479166
Booksplease Price: £12.22In this innovative rendition of "The Oresteia", the poet, translator, and essayist Anne Carson combines three different visions - Aischylos' 'Agamemnon', Sophokles' 'Elektra', and Euripides'... -
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally... -
Frogs and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' The Frogs and Other Plays offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in... -
Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women by Euripides 9781603847353
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. Ruth... -
The Cure at Troy by Seamus Heaney
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Seamus Heaney's version of Sophocles's Philoctetes tells of the wounded hero marooned upon an island by the Greeks during the Siege of Troy. As the conflict comes to a climax, the Greeks begin to... -
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays by Plautus 9780140441499
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.54One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254-184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day. This collection features a varied... -
Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus by Euripides 9780872208223
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.62This new volume of three of Euripides' most celebrated plays offers graceful, economical, metrical translations that convey the wide range of effects of the playwright's verse, from the idiomatic... -
Bacchae by Euripides 9780099577386
RRP: £7.99Booksplease Price: £6.17This stunning translation, by the acclaimed poet Robin Robertson (Forward Prize, Man Booker shortlist 2018), has reinvigorated Euripides' devastating take of a god's revenge for contemporary readers,... -
Aristophanes: Frogs and Other Plays: A new verse translation, with introduction and notes by Aristophanes
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.99Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fifth century BC. One of the most original playwrights... -
The Penelopiad by Margaret Atwood 9780571239498
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95As portrayed in Homer's Odyssey, Penelope - wife of Odysseus and cousin of the beautiful Helen of Troy - has become a symbol of wifely duty and devotion, enduring twenty years of waiting when her... -
Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, the Cyclops, Rhesus by David Grene
Booksplease Price: £12.00Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They... -
Orestes and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £8.03Ion Orestes The Phoenician Women The Suppliant Women In these four plays Euripides explores ethical and political themes,contrasting the claims of patriotism with family loyalty, pragmatism and... -
Greek Tragedy by Aeschylus
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £9.23Agememnon is the first part of the Aeschylus's Orestian trilogy in which the leader of the Greek army returns from the Trojan war to be murdered by his treacherous wife Clytemnestra. In Sophocles'...