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Plautus and Terence: Five Comedies: Miles Gloriosus, Menaechmi, Bacchides, Hecyra and Adelphoe by Deena Berg 9780872203631
RRP: $77.98$63.30This 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: $29.23$23.99This 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: $70.18$56.47Meineck 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: $89.70$81.06In 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... -
Understanding Terence by Sander M. Goldberg 9780691638676
$179.89Instead 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... -
Language and Desire in Seneca's Phaedra by Charles Segal 9780691610719
RRP: $68.25$53.06This close reading of Seneca's most influential tragedy explores the question of how poetic language produces the impression of an individual self, a full personality with a conscious and unconscious emotional life. Originally published in 1986. The... -
Chikamatsu: Five Late Plays by C. Andrew Gerstle 9780231121675
$81.35Chikamatsu 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: $54.60$41.65Sugawara 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 Trojan Women by Alan Shapiro 9780195374933
RRP: $85.78$77.94Among surviving Greek tragedies only Euripides' Trojan Women shows us the extinction of a whole city, an entire people. Despite its grim theme, or more likely because of the centrality of that theme to the deepest fears of our own age, this is one of the... -
The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays by Peter Burian 9780195373370
RRP: $111.15$110.55Based 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 series offers new translations that go... -
Hippolytos by Euripides 9780195072907
RRP: $25.33$19.05In most versions of the Hippolytos myth, Phaidra is depicted as an utterly debauched character, a woman reduced to shamelessness by the power of Aphrodite. In Euripides' Hippolytos, however--informed by the playwright's moral and religious... -
Hecuba by Euripides 9780195068740
$36.56Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, The Greek Tragedy in New Translation series offers new translations that go... -
Lysistrata by Aristophanes 9780929587578
RRP: $15.58$11.60Aristophanes' great anti-war drama glorifies the power of fertility in the face of destruction. Mr. Rudall's new translation recaptures the splendid variety of diction in Aristophanes, so that instead of a heavily poetic presentation the play becomes... -
Three Other Theban Plays: Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes; Euripides' Suppliants; Euripides' Phoenician Women by Aeschylus 9781624664717
RRP: $31.18$25.47Though now associated mainly with Sophocles' Theban Plays and Euripides' Bacchae , the theme of Thebes and its royalty was a favorite of ancient Greek poets, one explored in a now lost epic cycle, as well as several other surviving tragedies. With a rich... -
Aristophanes and Menander: Three Comedies: Peace, Money, the God, and Samia by Douglass Parker 9781624661853
RRP: $33.13$26.93Three 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 9781603849326
RRP: $27.28$22.52Featuring 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... -
Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women by Euripides 9781603847360
RRP: $76.03$61.00Diane 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 Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and... -
Prometheus Bound by Aeschylus 9781603841917
RRP: $52.63$41.67This 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,... -
The Trojan Women by Euripides 9781585101115
RRP: $25.33$21.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585101115Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 128Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoWeight(grams)... -
Frogs by Aristophanes 9781585103089
RRP: $23.38$18.56Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585103089Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &... -
Antigone: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudall by Sophocles 9781566632119
RRP: $15.58$11.60One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate probing of the nature of human suffering. Mr. Rudall's... -
Lyric Quotation in Plato by Marian Demos 9780847689088
$207.91In this book, Marian Demos demonstrates the significance of three famous lyric quotations within their respective contexts in the dialogues of Plato. Demos reminds us that familiarity with the lyric poets was part of the educational background of Plato... -
The Roman Empire: A Concise History of the First Two Centuries by Robert N. Schwartz 9780761811725
$180.63The Roman Empire provides a concise, readable history of the rise of Rome's imperial spirit after the collapse of the Republic. The author depicts the expansion of the early Roman Empire as it gained dominance over a massive area where armies and... -
Iphigenia Among the Taurians by Euripides 9781566631143
$29.89Euripides' romantic melodrama of the reunion in Tauris of Iphigenia with the brother she thought was dead abounds in situations of danger and of touching reminiscence. Plays for Performance Series.Book InformationISBN 9781566631143Author EuripidesFormat... -
Iphigenia Among the Taurians by Euripides 9781566631136
RRP: $13.63$11.88Euripides' romantic melodrama of the reunion in Tauris of Iphigenia with the brother she thought was dead abounds in situations of danger and of touching reminiscence. In Mr. Rudall's new translation it becomes beautifully playable.Book InformationISBN... -
Tragedy and Enlightenment: Athenian Political Thought and the Dilemmas of Modernity by Christopher Rocco 9780520331358
RRP: $66.30$51.58This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices... -
Antigone by Sophocles 9780941051255
RRP: $25.33$21.04Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780941051255Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Focus Publishing/R Pullins & CoPublisher Focus Publishing/R Pullins &... -
Stagecraft in Euripides by Michael R. Halleran 9780415744409
RRP: $214.50$185.46In Stagecraft in Euripides, first published in 1985, Professor Michael Halleran examines certain aspects of the dramaturgy of the most extensively preserved Attic tragedian. Although the ancient dramatic texts do not contain performance directions,... -
Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, The Bacchae by Euripides 9780393093124
RRP: $35.08$30.01Here are three of Euripides' finest tragedies offered in vivid, modern translations.Book InformationISBN 9780393093124Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 144Imprint WW Norton & CoPublisher WW Norton & CoWeight(grams) 114gDimensions(mm) 211mm *... -
The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda: Edited from the Original Texts with Introduction and Notes by John J Murray 9780367190620
RRP: $179.38$155.61Published in 1991 The Tragedye of Solyman and Perseda is a late Elizabethan romantic tragedy by Thomas Kyd, author of The Spanish Tragedy. It dramatises the triangular relationship of the Turkish emperor Soliman, his captive Perseda and her beloved... -
Euripides III: Heracles, the Trojan Women, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Ion by David Grene 9780226308814
RRP: $60.45$58.87Sixty 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 succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
The Oresteia by Aeschylus 9780226007724
RRP: $40.95$39.60These plays embody Aeschylus' concerns with the destiny and fate of both individuals and the state, all played out under the watchful eye of the gods.In "Agamemnon, the warrior who defeated Troy returns to Argos and is murdered by his wife... -
Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, the Suppliant Women, Electra by David Grene 9780226308777
RRP: $60.45$58.87Sixty 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 succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
The Arbitration: The Epitrepontes of Menander by Gilbert Murray 9780415729949
RRP: $214.50$185.46Gilbert Murray translated and made available to modern readers The Epitrepontes of Menander or The Arbitration for the first time in 1945. The Arbitration is among the most frequently quoted and most famous of Menander's plays and - being less farcical... -
The Trojan Women by Euripides 9781554814497
RRP: $35.00$28.96Trojan Women tells the story of the survivors of the Trojan War, the women and children taken into slavery by the victorious Greek army. Through the tragedy's central character, the matriarch Hecuba, this late play (415 BCE) demonstrates Euripides'... -
Tragic Bodies: Edges of the Human in Greek Drama by Nancy Worman 9781350124363
$166.45This book argues for a new way of reading tragedy that attends to how bodies on the ancient Athenian stage pivot between subject and object, human and not, and so serve as vehicles for confronting the edges of the human, for thinking beyond or without or... -
Emulation on the Shakespearean Stage by Vernon Guy Dickson 9781138248809
RRP: $97.48$84.83The English Renaissance has long been considered a period with a particular focus on imitation; however, much related scholarship has misunderstood or simply marginalized the significance of emulative practices and theories in the period. This work uses... -
Greek Tragedy and the Emotions: An Introductory Study by W. B. Stanford 9781138019041
RRP: $97.48$84.83According to Aristotle the main purpose of tragedy is the manipulation of emotions, and yet there are relatively few accessible studies of the precise dynamics of emotion in the Athenian theatre. In Greek Tragedy and the Emotions, first published in... -
Aristophanes and Women by Lauren K. Taaffe 9781138018594
RRP: $105.28$91.40Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian's 'women plays' in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students,... -
The Structure and Performance of Euripides' Helen by C. W. Marshall 9781107073753
RRP: $175.50$158.79Using Euripides' play Helen as the main point of reference, C. W. Marshall's detailed study expands our understanding of Athenian tragedy and provides new interpretations of how Euripides created meaning in performance. Marshall focuses on dramatic...