Ancient & Classical

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780472074778Author S. Douglas OlsonFormat HardbackPage Count 274Imprint The University of Michigan PressPublisher The University of Michigan Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013641602Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 228Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 327g

Robert Bagg's translations are Prized for making ancient Greek dramas immediate and gripping. His earlier translations of the plays of Sophocles and Euripides have been performed over seventy times, across a wide array of stages. This edition includes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014351630Author EuripidesFormat HardbackPage Count 182Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 431g

An anthology of 20th-century adaptations of Antigone, translations of plays by Luis Rafael Sanchez and Dominik Smole.Book InformationISBN 9781936320158Author Robert CardulloFormat HardbackPage Count 264Imprint Academica PressPublisher Academica Press

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156027656Author Dudley FittsFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint Mariner BooksPublisher Mariner BooksWeight(grams) 499g

This is the first comprehensive study of the dramas of Nicodemus Frischlin (1547-1590), one of the most versatile and complex playwrights of early modern Germany. Frischlin's broad range encompassed biblical, confessional, and historical drama, all of...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781085968706Author Rory O'NeillFormat PaperbackPage Count 160Imprint Independently PublishedPublisher Independently PublishedWeight(grams) 181g

The Grene and Lattimore edition of the Greek tragedies has been among the most widely acclaimed and successful publications of the University of Chicago Press. On the occasion of the Centennial of the University of Chicago and its Press, we take pleasure...

Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's collaboration on this new translation combines the strengths that have recently distinguished both as translators of Greek tragedy: expert knowledge of the Greek and of the needs of the teaching classicist, intimate...

In 17 original essays, a distinguished international cast considers the text, interpretation and cultural context of Greek tragedy. There are detailed studies of single plays, of major themes in each of the three tragedians, of modern approaches to...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014909251Author AeschylusFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 154g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781015227156Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 182Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 263g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781014156372Author AeschylusFormat HardbackPage Count 102Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 322g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781013429460Author SophoclesFormat HardbackPage Count 228Imprint Hassell Street PressPublisher Hassell Street PressWeight(grams) 499g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881456097Author Jean-Baptiste MoliereFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780062319678Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Ecco PressPublisher Ecco PressWeight(grams) 113g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615917917Author J M MuldowneyFormat PaperbackPage Count 280Imprint Brazen Fleece PressPublisher Brazen Fleece PressWeight(grams) 653g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595139804Author G N ReddyFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 236g

A new verse translation of Agamemnon, the first play in Aeschylus's trilogy The Oresteia. Agamemnon, King of Argos, returns to Greece a victor in the Trojan War, bringing with him the seer Cassandra as his war-prize and concubine. Awaiting him is his...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780997408447Author Andrew BiliterFormat PaperbackPage Count 98Imprint Lighthouse Plays, LLCPublisher Lighthouse Plays, LLCWeight(grams) 141gDimensions(mm)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780451531247Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint SignetPublisher Penguin Putnam IncWeight(grams) 74g

Ahl's translations of three Senecan tragedies will gratify and challenge readers and performers. With stage performance specifically in mind, Ah1 renders Seneca's dramatic force in a modern idiom and style that move easily between formality and...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780615832630Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 68Imprint Denton & WhitePublisher Denton & WhiteWeight(grams) 152g

This startling and original study emerged from Kenneth Rockford's wish to vindicate Aristophanes' Clouds against detractors. As a result of years of rereading and teaching Aristophanes, he realized that the Clouds could not be defended in an analysis of...

Metatheater, or ""theater within theater,"" is a critical approach often used in studies of Shakespearian or modern drama. Breaking new ground in the study of ancient Greek tragedy, Mark Ringer applies the concept of metatheatricality to the work of...

Plautus' Curculio, the shortest of the twenty surviving comedies by ancient Rome's master dramatist, certainly is among his best. It has all the characteristics that make Plautus a perennial favorite among readers of Latin: archetypal characters such as...

Otis clarifies the moral and theological issues raised in the Ortesia and relates them to certain stylistic and structural qualities of the three plays. He tackles the central questions of guilt, retribution, and the relation between human and divine...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780965114073Author Suellen OceanFormat PaperbackPage Count 376Imprint Ocean-HosePublisher Ocean-HoseWeight(grams) 503g

Early in 1949, while under indictment for treason and hospitalized by court order at St. Elizabeths Hospital in Washington, D.C., Ezra Pound collaborated with Rudd Fleming, a professor at the University of Maryland, on a new version of Sophokles' Elektra...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881453058Author AeschylusFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Broadway Play PublishingPublisher Broadway Play PublishingWeight(grams) 104gDimensions(mm)...

This anthology includes his best plays and also seeks to give some idea of his range. His forte was farce, and these selections exemplify at least two of his favorite farcical devices: mistaken identity (Amphitryon) and the lecherous old codger (Casina)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780374527266Author EuripedesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plPublisher Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3plWeight(grams)...

Oedipus at Colonus is the third in Sophocles' trilogy of plays about the famous king of Thebes and his unhappy family. It dramatizes the mysterious death of Oedipus, by which he is transformed into an immortal hero protecting Athens. This was Sophocles'...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780982711569Author Dennis DalyFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint Wilderness House PressPublisher Wilderness House PressWeight(grams) 152g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780972799355Author Peter ArceseFormat PaperbackPage Count 82Imprint Athanata ArtsPublisher Athanata ArtsWeight(grams) 132gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780595272105Author Francis BlessingtonFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint iUniversePublisher iUniverseWeight(grams) 168g

Considered to be Plautus's greatest play, Menaechmi; Or, The Twin-Brothers is the story of two twin brothers, Menaechmus and Sosicles, who are separated at age seven when their father takes Menaechmus on a business trip.Book InformationISBN...

Deianeira is an ordinary woman married to Herakles, the most feared and storied hero of the ancient world - and a canny and violent enforcer with a merciless temperament and legendary strength. To keep his affection and preserve her marriage, she must...

* Asserts a novel and controversial theory on the origins of rhetoric that differs radically from the standard view * Argues that it was the theatre of Ancient Greece, first appearing around 500 BC, that prompted * the development of formalized rhetoric,...