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Women of Trakhis: A New Translation by Sophocles 9780062132048
£6.42Deianeira 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... -
Greek Drama and the Invention of Rhetoric by David Sansone 9781118357088
RRP: £95.95£83.18* 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,... -
Black Medea: Adaptations for Modern Plays by Kevin J Wetmore 9781604978650
£87.81Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781604978650Author Kevin J WetmoreFormat HardbackPage Count 356Imprint Cambria PressPublisher Cambria PressWeight(grams) 689g -
Alcestis by Euripides 9780195061666
RRP: £12.49£10.59At once a vigorous translation of one of Euripides' most subtle and witty plays, and a wholly fresh interpretation, this version reveals for the first time the extraordinary formal beauty and thematic concentration of the Alcestis. The late William... -
Parisian Confraternity Drama of the Fourteenth Century: The 'Miracles de Nostre Dame Par Personnages' by Donald Maddox 9782503528526
£67.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503528526Author Donald MaddoxFormat HardbackPage Count 258Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 658g -
Aristophanes and Menander: Three Comedies: Peace, Money, the God, and Samia by Douglass Parker 9781624661860
RRP: £48.99£39.76Three Comedies features the work of three dramatic geniuses of the glorious, no-holds-barred tradition of ancient Athenian comedy. Here Aristophanes, the eight-hundred-pound gorilla of Old and Middle Comedy meets Menander, elephant in the room of New... -
The Orestes Plays by Euripides 9781603849333
RRP: £40.99£33.45Featuring Cecelia Eaton Luschnig's annotated verse translations of Euripides' Electra , Iphigenia among the Tauri , and Orestes , this volume offers an ideal avenue for exploring the playwright's innovative treatment of both traditional and... -
Electra, Phoenician Women, Bacchae, and Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides 9781603844611
RRP: £38.99£31.88The four late plays of Euripides collected here, in beautifully crafted translations by Cecelia Eaton Luschnig and Paul Woodruff, offer a faithful and dynamic representation of the playwright's mature vision.Book InformationISBN 9781603844611Author... -
Greek Tragedy, a First Reading: Selections from the Electra plays of Euripides and Sophocles by Nicholas Baechle 9781585103713
RRP: £40.99£33.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585103713Author Nicholas BaechleFormat PaperbackPage Count 310Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &... -
Electra by Sophocles 9781585102815
RRP: £12.99£11.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585102815Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 120Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &... -
Oidipous at Colonus by Sophocles 9781585100651
RRP: £12.99£11.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585100651Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 118Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &... -
The Trojan Women by Nicholas Rudall 9781566632232
RRP: £11.99£8.92As bleak and agonizing a portrait of war as ever to appear on the stage,The Trojan Women is a masterpiece of pathos as well as a timeless and chilling indictment of war's brutality. Plays for Performance Series.Book InformationISBN 9781566632232Author... -
The Barber of Seville: In a New Translation and Adaptation by Bernard Sahlins by Pierre Augustin de Beaumarchais 9781566632034
RRP: £6.99£5.95Fast-moving and brisk, and filled with wit, humor, and gaiety, the Barber is assured of immortality because of its sheer fun. Mr. Sahlins’s deft adaptation of a superbly constructed plot, and his attention to language for present-day audiences, make this... -
Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides 9781566631112
RRP: £7.99£6.14Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Trojan War is, despite its heroic background, in many respects a domestic tragedy. Mr. Rudall's new translation retains Euripides' poetic beauty while... -
Lysistrata: The Sex Strike by Aristophanes 9780953675708
RRP: £7.99£7.26Original by Aristophanes Adapted by Germaine Greer With additional dialogue from Phil Willmott. Aristophanes' classic play retold in a bang up to the minute way. The world's leading feminist raconteur, polemicist and wit plunders the archetypal... -
Persians by Aeshylus 9780936347851
RRP: £20.99£17.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780936347851Author AeshylusFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint IBEX Publishers,U.S.Publisher IBEX Publishers,U.S.Weight(grams) 138g -
Cyclops by Euripides 9780929524917
RRP: £11.99£9.77Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524917Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackImprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 80g -
Oedipus at Colonus: 2-volume set by Sophocles 9780929524344
RRP: £16.99£14.13Apologies 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 -
The Electra Plays by Peter Meineck 9780872209657
RRP: £36.99£30.30Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers ; Euripides: Electra ; Sophocles: ElectraBook InformationISBN 9780872209657Author Peter MeineckFormat HardbackPage Count 224Imprint Hackett Publishing Co, IncPublisher Hackett Publishing Co, IncWeight(grams) 369g -
Theban Plays by Sophocles 9780872205864
RRP: £35.99£29.52This volume offers the fruits of Peter Meineck and Paul Woodruff's dynamic collaboration on the plays of Sophocles' Theban cycle, presenting the translators' Oedipus Tyrannus (2000) along with Woodruff's Antigone (2001) and a muscular new Oedipus at... -
Exile and the Poetics of Loss in Greek Tradition by Nancy Sultan 9780847687510
£96.87In Exile and the Poetics of Loss in Greek Tradition, Nancy Sultan examines the theme of heroic exile and return in Greek poetic tradition from the Archaic epic of Homer to modern Greek folk poetry and song. Sultan studies issues of how husbands and wives... -
Three Comedies: "Miles Gloriosus," "Pseudolus," "Rudens" by Plautus 9780801495946
RRP: £25.99£22.49A major comic artist in Republican Rome, Plautus left a legacy of twenty extremely inventive comedies. Ostensibly Latin versions of Greek plays staged in Athens several generations earlier, they display an exuberance and zany sense of humor that are... -
Choruses of Young Women in Ancient Greece: Their Morphology, Religous Role, and Social Functions by Claude Calame 9780742515253
£53.55In this groundbreaking work, Claude Calame argues that the songs sung by choruses of young girls in ancient Greek poetry are more than literary texts; rather, they functioned as initiatory rituals in Greek cult practices. Using semiotic and anthropologic... -
Understanding Terence by Sander M. Goldberg 9780691610559
RRP: £35.00£27.74Instead of seeing Terence primarily as an adapter of Greek New Comedy, Sander Goldberg treats him as an innovative dramatist writing for a specifically Roman audience. His book will interest not only students of classical literature but also those... -
The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy by Thomas Gould 9780691600956
RRP: £50.00£39.12Affecting audiences with depictions of suffering and injustice is a key function of tragedy, and yet it has long been viewed by philosophers as a dubious enterprise. In this book Thomas Gould uses both historical and theoretical approaches to explore... -
Aeschylus: Agamemnon: Aeschylus: Agamemnon: Volume II: Commentary 1-1055 by Eduard Fraenkel 9780199271719
£76.31Aeschylus: Agamemnon Volume II: Commentary 1-1055Book InformationISBN 9780199271719Author Eduard FraenkelFormat HardbackPage Count 488Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressWeight(grams) 881g -
Medea by Euripides 9780198720928
£53.29MedeaBook InformationISBN 9780198720928Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 258Imprint Clarendon PressPublisher Oxford University PressDimensions(mm) 186mm * 124mm * 14mm -
The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays by Peter Burian 9780195387827
£84.57Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations offers new translations that go beyond... -
Aias: A New Translation by Sophocles 9780062132147
RRP: £5.99£5.50With the Trojan War won, the Greeks' last great hero, Arias, has suddenly become obsolete. The world is changing - as he witnesses when the armor of his fallen cousin Achilles is awarded not to him but to his crafty comrade Odysseus. When Aias swears... -
Euripides and Alcestis: Speculations, Simulations, and Stories of Love in the Athenian Culture by Kiki Gounaridou 9780761812319
£60.27Euripides and Alcestis demonstrates the inherent presence of indeterminacy in Euripides' play, Alcestis. The author uses about eighty of the scholarly attempts to establish a determinate meaning of the play to exhibit the difficulty and lack of success... -
Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides 9781566631129
£15.20Agamemnon's sacrifice of his daughter in order to ensure the good fortune of his forces in the Trojan War is, despite its heroic background, in many respects a domestic tragedy. Plays for Performance Series.Book InformationISBN 9781566631129Author... -
Acharnians, Lysistrata, Clouds by Aristophanes 9780941051583
RRP: £21.99£17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941051583Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 240Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams)... -
Medea by Euripides 9780941051101
RRP: £12.99£11.06Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941051101Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 94Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &... -
Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus by Euripides 9780872208230
RRP: £35.99£29.52This 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 speech of its dialogue to the high formality of its choral... -
Clouds by Aristophanes 9780872205178
RRP: £27.99£22.59This line-for-line translation of Aristophanes' best-known comedy features an Introduction on Old Comedy, and the place of Clouds and Aristophanic comedy within it. Footnotes and more detailed endnotes further distinguish this edition of a play famous... -
Clouds by Aristophanes 9780872205161
RRP: £11.99£9.77This line-for-line translation of Aristophanes' best-known comedy features an Introduction on Old Comedy, and the place of Clouds and Aristophanic comedy within it. Footnotes and more detailed endnotes further distinguish this edition of a play famous... -
Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe by Deena Berg 9780872203631
RRP: £39.99£33.07This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all the punches of Plautus, the knockabout king of farce, and proving that the more polished Terence can be just... -
Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe by Deena Berg 9780872203624
RRP: £14.99£12.59This is a book worthy of high praise. . . . All versions are exceedingly witty and versatile, in verse that ripples from one's lips, pulling all the punches of Plautus, the knockabout king of farce, and proving that the more polished Terence can be just... -
Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes by Sophocles 9780872207646
RRP: £35.99£29.52Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles' Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes combine the same standards of accuracy, concision, clarity, and powerful speech that have so often made their Theban Plays a source of... -
Nothing Is as It Seems: The Tragedy of the Implicit in Euripides' Hippolytus by Hanna M. Roisman 9780847690930
RRP: £46.00£42.33In this valuable book, Hanna M. Roisman provides a uniquely comprehensive look at Euripides' Hippolytus. Roisman begins with an examination of the ancient preference for the implicit style, and suggests a possible reading of Euripides' first treatment of...