Ancient & Classical

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781945644955Author Anton ChekhovFormat PaperbackPage Count 46Imprint Innovative Eggz LLCPublisher Innovative Eggz LLCWeight(grams) 86gDimensions(mm) 234mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787371330Author AristophanesFormat PaperbackPage Count 48Imprint Scribe PublishingPublisher Scribe PublishingWeight(grams) 77gDimensions(mm) 229mm *...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787806269Author TerenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 132Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 204gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 8mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787806245Author TerenceFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Stage DoorPublisher Stage DoorWeight(grams) 127gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 5mm

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781787371569Author EuripiesFormat PaperbackPage Count 30Imprint Scribe PublishingPublisher Scribe PublishingWeight(grams) 54g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781732756823Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 90Imprint Viveca Smith PublishingPublisher Viveca Smith PublishingWeight(grams) 145g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781497995604Author PersiusFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint Literary Licensing, LLCPublisher Literary Licensing, LLCWeight(grams) 331g

After receiving an ultimatum from Apollo, Orestes must decide if he'd rather face the wrath of the gods, or the earthly consequences for his actions When Orestes returns home to Agos after hearing of his father's death, he has a quest and a secret. Since...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781513270326Author AeschelusFormat PaperbackPage Count 40Imprint Mint EditionsPublisher Mint Editions

Though it tells the stories of the defeated, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays features four tragedies that depict both unfortunate demises and the essence of the fighting human spirit. The Suppliants, the first play of the collection, follows the...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420955156Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 91g

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416592259Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 112Imprint Free PressPublisher Free PressWeight(grams) 95gDimensions(mm) 204mm * 128mm * 8mm

Euripides' Alcestis - perhaps the most anthologized Attic drama--is an ideal text for students reading their first play in the original Greek. Literary commentaries and language aids in most editions are too advanced or too elementary for intermediate...

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...

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 9780881456097Author 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 CollinsPublisher HarperCollins Publishers IncWeight(grams) 113gDimensions(mm) 201mm *...

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

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 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...

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

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

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...

Apologies 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

At 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...

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9782503528526Author Donald MaddoxFormat HardbackPage Count 268Imprint Brepols N.V.Publisher Brepols N.V.Weight(grams) 658gDimensions(mm) 246mm * 165mm * 20mm

Three 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...

Featuring 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 non-traditional...

The 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...