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Suppliant Women by Euripides 9780195045536
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €13.45Already tested in performance on the stage, this translation shows for the first time in English the striking interplay of voices in Euripides' Suppliant Women. Torn between the mothers' lament over the dead and proud civic eulogy, between calls for a... -
Sophocles' Oedipus the King: A Dual Language Edition by Ian Johnston 9781940997889
RRP: €11.84Booksplease Price: €10.83Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781940997889Author Ian JohnstonFormat PaperbackPage Count 178Imprint Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Publisher Faenum Publishing, Ltd.Weight(grams)... -
Recapturing Sophocles' Antigone by William Blake Tyrrell 9780847692170
Booksplease Price: €53.26In this book, Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett examine Sophocles' Antigone in the context of its setting in fifth-century Athens. The authors attempt to create an interpretive environment that is true to the issues and interests of fifth-century... -
Mask and Performance in Greek Tragedy: From Ancient Festival to Modern Experimentation by David Wiles 9780521865227
RRP: €69.02Booksplease Price: €67.03Why did Greek actors in the age of Sophocles always wear masks? In this book, first published in 2007, David Wiles provided the first book-length study of this question. He surveys the evidence of vases and other monuments, arguing that they portray... -
The Stagecraft and Performance of Roman Comedy by C. W. Marshall 9780521120449
RRP: €48.79Booksplease Price: €47.71A comprehensive survey of Roman theatrical production, this book examines all aspects of Roman performance practice, and provides fresh insights on the comedies of Plautus and Terence. Following an introductory chapter on the experience of Roman comedy... -
The Seven Against Thebes by Aeschylus 9780198149996
Booksplease Price: €56.16A major edition of Aeschylus' play, the Septem Contra Thebas or Seven Against Thebes, providing a significantly new text, introduction, and full scale commentary. The book deals comprehensively with every important aspect of the play, both in detail and... -
Acharnians by Aristophanes 9781585100873
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.39Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585100873Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 96Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &... -
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2: Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon: Volume 2 by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
RRP: €46.41Booksplease Price: €46.26Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE 65... -
Seeing Theater: The Phenomenology of Classical Greek Drama by Naomi Weiss
RRP: €95.20Booksplease Price: €75.32This is the first book to approach the visuality of ancient Greek drama through the lens of theater phenomenology. Gathering evidence from tragedy, comedy, satyr play, and vase painting, Naomi Weiss argues that, from its very beginnings, Greek theater in... -
Euripides' Electra: A Commentary by Hanna M Roisman 9780806141190
Booksplease Price: €27.37Among the best-known Greek tragedies, Electra is also one of the plays students of Greek often read in the original language. It tells the story of how Electra and her brother, Orestes, avenge the murder of their father, Agamemnon, by their mother and... -
Aristophanes: Birds Aristophanes 9780856682889
RRP: €41.64Booksplease Price: €39.16Birds was produced at the City Dionysia in the spring of 414 BC. It differs from all the other fifth-century plays of Aristophanes that survive in having no strong and obvious connection with a topical question of public interest, whether political (like... -
Aristophanes - Plutus: "What an unhppy fate, to be the slave of a fool" by Aristophanes 9781787371286
RRP: €12.19Booksplease Price: €10.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787371286Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 54Imprint Scribe PublishingPublisher Scribe PublishingWeight(grams) 86g -
Seneca: "Phaedra" by Roland Mayer 9780715631652
Booksplease Price: €33.19Phaedra is one of Seneca's most successful tragedies. It was the first ancient drama to be performed in the Renaissance, marking an epoch in European theatre. The myth, as reworked by Seneca on the basis of dramas by Euripides, was endowed with fresh... -
Ion by Euripides 9780195094510
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €12.64One of Euripides' late plays, Ion is a complex enactment of the changing relations between the human and divine orders and the way in which our understanding of the gods is mediated and re-visioned by myths. The story begins years before the play begins,... -
Greek and Roman Comedy: Translations and Interpretations of Four Representative Plays by Shawn O'Bryhim
RRP: €29.74Booksplease Price: €26.08Much of what we know of Greco-Roman comedy comes from the surviving works of just four playwrights-the Greeks Aristophanes and Menander and the Romans Plautus and Terence. To introduce these authors and their work to students and general readers, this... -
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus 9781603841900
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €14.39This is an outstandingly useful edition of Prometheus Bound. The translation is both faithful and graceful, and the introduction to this difficult play is a model of clarity, intelligence, and a profound familiarity with the workings of Greek myth, Greek... -
Greek Tragedies as Plays for Performance David Raeburn (University of Oxford) 9781119089896
Booksplease Price: €47.40This is a unique introduction to Greek tragedy that explores the plays as dramatic artifacts intended for performance and pays special attention to construction, design, staging, and musical composition. * Written by a scholar who combines his academic... -
George Colman - Inkle and Yarico: 'This is to have to do with a schemer!'' by George Colman 9781787806290
RRP: €12.19Booksplease Price: €10.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787806290Author George ColmanFormat PaperbackPage Count 88Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm -
Aristophanes - The Thesmophoriazusae: "Let each man exercise the art he knows" by Aristophanes 9781787371361
RRP: €12.19Booksplease Price: €10.28Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787371361Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Scribe PublishingPublisher Scribe PublishingWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm *... -
Ten Plays by Euripides 9780451527004
RRP: €8.32Booksplease Price: €8.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451527004Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 608Imprint Signet ClassicsPublisher Penguin Putnam Inc -
Bacchae by Euripides 9780929524856
RRP: €10.70Booksplease Price: €9.57Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524856Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 80g -
H of H Playbook by Anne Carson 9780811231237
RRP: €23.79Booksplease Price: €21.17H of H Playbook is an explosion of thought, in drawings and language, about a Greek tragedy called Herakles by the 5th-century BC poet Euripides. In myth Herakles is an embodiment of manly violence who returns home after years of making war on enemies... -
A Commentary on Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris by Poulheria Kyriakou 9783110190991
RRP: €162.44Booksplease Price: €109.83This work is the first major commentary on Euripides' Iphigenia in Tauris to appear in English in more than 65 years. It offers detailed analysis of a fascinating play that scholars so far had considered mainly as a source of information about Athenian... -
Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays by C. Andrew Gerstle 9780231121675
RRP: €41.65Booksplease Price: €34.89Chikamatsu Monzaemon (1653-1725), often referred to as "Japan's Shakespeare" and a "god of writers," was arguably the most famous playwright in Japanese history and wrote more than 100 plays for the kabuki and bunraku theaters. Today, the plays of this... -
Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy by Stanleigh Jones 9780231059879
RRP: €33.32Booksplease Price: €28.19Sugawara and the Secrets of Calligraphy is a classic play from Japan's golden age of puppet theater. Written in the eighteenth century, it tells the tale of Sugawara no Michizane, a wronged scholar-official who, in death, joins the Shinto pantheon as a... -
The Absent One: Mourning Ritual, Tragedy, and the Performance of Ambivalence by Susan Letzler Cole 9780271007854
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Allegories of Kingship: Calderon and the Anti-Machiavellian Tradition by Stephen Rupp 9780271026671
RRP: €41.59Booksplease Price: €37.51This study examines issues in politics and political theory in selected works of Pedro Calderon de la Barca (1600-1681), the major dramatist of the middle and later decades of the seventeenth century in Spain. By analyzing secular dramas (comedias) and... -
Antigone by Sophocles 9780979757105
Booksplease Price: €12.02Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780979757105Author SophoclesFormat HardbackPage Count 60Imprint Richer Resources PublicationsPublisher Richer Resources Publications -
Oedipus at Colonus: 2-volume set by Sophocles 9780929524344
RRP: €22.60Booksplease Price: €20.03Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524344Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 78g -
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 9780299282547
RRP: €9.51Booksplease Price: €8.73Oedipus Rex is the greatest of the Greek tragedies, a profound meditation on the human condition. The story of the mythological king, who is doomed to kill his father and marry his mother, has resonated in world culture for almost 2,500 years. But... -
Studies in the Scholia on Aeschylus: I. The Recensions of Demetrius Triclinius by Ole Langwitz Smith 9789004042209
Booksplease Price: €96.07Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9789004042209Author Ole Langwitz SmithFormat PaperbackPage Count 302Imprint BrillPublisher BrillWeight(grams) 499g -
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 9781779450012
RRP: €11.89Booksplease Price: €11.23Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781779450012Author Henrik IbsenFormat PaperbackPage Count 126Imprint Binker NorthPublisher Binker NorthWeight(grams) 177g -
The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles 9781420976038
Booksplease Price: €11.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420976038Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 198Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 259g -
Selected Plays by Plautus 9781420969207
RRP: €19.03Booksplease Price: €18.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420969207Author PlautusFormat PaperbackPage Count 380Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 481g -
Menaechmi by Titus Maccius Plautus 9780865160071
Booksplease Price: €31.67Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780865160071Author Titus Maccius PlautusFormat PaperbackPage Count 200Imprint Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S.Publisher Bolchazy-Carducci Publishers,U.S. -
Radical Theatre: Greek Tragedy in the Modern World by Rush Rehm 9780715629161
Booksplease Price: €35.16Why should Greek tragedy matter now? This book opens a dialogue between the tragic theatre in ancient Athens and the multiple performances of the modern world. In five interconnected chapters, Rush Rehm engages tragedy on its own terms, using our oldest... -
Ten Plays by Euripides 9781420971521
Booksplease Price: €14.60Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420971521Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 296Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 140g -
Aristophanes: "Clouds", "Acharnians", "Lysistrata" - A Companion to the Penguin Translation of A.H.Sommerstein by Sir Kenneth J. Dover 9781853990540
Booksplease Price: €29.65This companion to Alan Sommerstein's Penguin translation of Aristophanes' Clouds Acharnians and Lysistrata is intended for the Greekless reader. An informative introduction is followed by sections of each of the three plays, on Clouds by Kenneth Dover,... -
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 9781722503864
RRP: €15.46Booksplease Price: €12.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781722503864Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 124Imprint G&D MediaPublisher G&D Media -
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes 9781420968583
Booksplease Price: €13.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420968583Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 308g