Ancient & Classical

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) 503gDimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 20mm

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)...

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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

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. This collection, translated by...

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...

Apologies 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 &...

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Apologies 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 &...

As 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.ReviewsA new translation of a literary...

Agamemnon'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...

Original 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...

Apologies 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

Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780929524917Author EuripidesFormat PaperbackPage Count 80Imprint Bryn Mawr CommentariesPublisher Bryn Mawr CommentariesWeight(grams) 113g

This 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...

A 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...

Affecting 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...