Ancient & Classical

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989110822Author Micheal DuchesneFormat PaperbackPage Count 28Imprint Historical Perspective MediaPublisher Historical Perspective MediaWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780989110815Author Serena CrossonFormat PaperbackPage Count 34Imprint Historical Perspective MediaPublisher Historical Perspective MediaWeight(grams) 104g

Tragedy is a genre for exploring loss and suffering, and this book traces the vital areas where tragedy has shaped and been a resource for Christian theology. There is a history to the relationship of theology and tragedy; tragic literature has explored...

Published 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.About the AuthorCABook InformationISBN 9780886290795Author Shirley D. SullivanFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint McGill-Queen's University PressPublisher McGill-Queen's...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780998788210Author Rob HardyFormat PaperbackPage Count 102Imprint Hero Now TheatrePublisher Hero Now TheatreWeight(grams) 113g

This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of 'dramatic' presentation in the epic cycles and reaching...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780881457636Author Betty ShamiehFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint 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 9780881456981Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint 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 9780881456240Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 66Imprint Broadway Play Publishing IncPublisher Broadway Play Publishing IncWeight(grams)...

Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series The three plays in this volume straddle the borders between comedy and tragedy. Alkestis is a moving "romance" with death; it has parallels to Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale. Helen, an alternative...

Originally published in 1952, The Nature of Roman Comedy is still the fullest and most accessible introduction to the plays of Plautus and Terence, which constitute the corpus of Roman comedy. With attention to the specific aspects (such as staging...

The modern reader may have difficulty conceiving of Iphigeneia in Tauris as tragedy, for the term in our sense is associated with downfall, death, and disaster. But to the ancient Greeks, the use of heroic legend, the tragic diction and meters, and the...

Praised by Aristotle as the pinnacle of Greek drama, "Oedipus the King" is the ancient world's most shocking and memorable play: the story of a city's beloved hero and his royal family brought to hellish ruin by fate, supernatural manipulation, and...

Spotlighting an endless cycle of bloodshed that consumes a royal family, "Elektra" masterfully explores the causes of hatred and the consequences of revenge - both for those who bear the brunt of violence and for those consumed by its influence. Orestes...

As both a literary genre and a view of life, tragedy has from the very beginning spurred a dialogue between poetry and philosophy. Plato famously banned tragedians from his ideal community because he believed that their representations of vicious...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780987521293Author Gary HeilbronnFormat PaperbackPage Count 396Imprint HpeditionsPublisher HpeditionsWeight(grams) 426g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977019724Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 116Imprint Theater 61 PressPublisher Theater 61 PressWeight(grams) 157gDimensions(mm) 216mm *...

The story of a futile quest for knowledge, this ancient anti-war drama is one of the neglected plays within the corpus of Greek tragedy. Euripides' shortest tragic work, Rhesos is unique in lacking a prologue, provoking some scholars to the conclusion...

Of the 1995 full-length edition: `Aristophanes addicts unite! This book is for us. It has everything that we always wanted to know about Birds and we were unable to find in one place.' Greek Gazette `The commentary elucidates with an experts...

Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series Written at the height of the Peloponnesian War, the three plays in this volume highlight the trivial causes and dire consequences of war and the fate of the innocent. In Andromache, Hektor's widow...

ElectraReviewsit reads well, anmd aims to do justice to the poetry of the original ... The introduction is largely well-balanced and sensitive, including some thought-provoking comparisons ... The notes are also worthwhile. * Susanna Phillippo...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780645620931Author Oscar WildeFormat PaperbackPage Count 114Imprint Bibliologica PressPublisher Bibliologica PressWeight(grams) 154g

A 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780814254219Author Wilfred E MajorFormat PaperbackPage Count 242Imprint Ohio State University PressPublisher Ohio State University PressWeight(grams)...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780977593354Author Greg FraserFormat PaperbackPage Count 250Imprint QuidzuncPublisher QuidzuncWeight(grams) 304gDimensions(mm) 210mm * 148mm * 13mm

Based 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 Translations series offers new translations that go...

In considering the practice and theory of translating Classical Greek plays into English from a theatrical perspective, Found in Translation, first published in 2006, also addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into...

A translation of one of Euripides' finest plays by one of Britain's most experienced translators Ion is the story of the abandoned child Ion, reunited with her mother XouthosA new translation of Euripides' play in which the young hero, a foundling...

Most readers nowadays encounter the plays of Aristophanes in the classroom, not the theater. Yet the ""father of comedy"" wrote his plays for the stage, not as literary texts. Many English translations of the plays were written decades ago, and in their...

In considering the practice and theory of translating Classical Greek plays into English from a theatrical perspective, Found in Translation, first published in 2006, also addresses the wider issues of transferring any piece of theatre from a source into...

In this fascinating and accessible book, David Wiles introduces ancient Greek theatre to students and enthusiasts interested in knowing how the plays were performed. Theatre was a ceremony bound up with fundamental activities in ancient Athenian life and...

A single-volume edition of the major Greek tragedies In a period of sixty-six years, three Athenian playwrights produced a series of tragedies which became a touchstone for drama for the next two and a half thousand years. The six plays in this volume...

According to Greek legend, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, secretly buried her brother in defiance of the order of Creon, king of Thebes. Sentenced to death by Creon, she forestalled him by committing suicide. The theme of the conflict between...

Plautus, Rome's earliest extant poet, was acclaimed by ancient critics above all for his mastery of language and his felicitous jokes; and yet in modern times relatively little attention has been devoted to elucidating these elements fully. In Funny...

One of the shortest plays in Greek drama, The Children of Herakles offers enough action for two or three plays of normal length. But this very richness and complexity have made the play elusive, subject to dismissive readings, and extraordinarily...

The formidable talents of Anthony Hecht, one of the most gifted of contemporary American poets, and Helen Bacon, a classical scholar, are here brought to bear on this vibrant translation of Aeschylus' much underrated tragedy The Seven Against Thebes. The...

This book examines the impact that Athenian Old Comedy had on Greek writers of the imperial era. It is generally acknowledged that imperial-era Greeks responded to Athenian Old Comedy in one of two ways: either as a treasure trove of Atticisms or as a...

Aristophanes' engagement with tragedy is one of the most striking features of his comedies: Euripides appears repeatedly as a character in these plays, jokes about tragedy and tragic poets abound, and parodies of tragedy frequently underlie whole scenes...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780195020502Author SophoclesFormat HardbackPage Count 112Imprint Oxford University Press IncPublisher Oxford University Press IncWeight(grams)...