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Oedipus at Colonus by Sophocles 9780299302542
Booksplease Price: $17.07Oedipus 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'... -
Sophocles' Ajax by Dennis Daly 9780982711569
RRP: $20.90Booksplease Price: $15.02Apologies 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 -
Agamemnon: A New English Version in Syllabic Verse by Aeschylus 9780972799355
RRP: $37.70Booksplease Price: $33.24Apologies 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 -
The Menaechmus Twins and Two Other Plays by Titus Maccius Plautus 9780393006025
Booksplease Price: $34.31Considered 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... -
Women of Trakhis: A New Translation by Sophocles 9780062132048
Booksplease Price: $12.64Deianeira 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... -
Black Medea: Adaptations for Modern Plays by Kevin J Wetmore 9781604978650
Booksplease Price: $185.64Apologies 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.96At 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
Booksplease Price: $140.97Apologies 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 -
Aristophanes and Menander: Three Comedies: Peace, Money, the God, and Samia by Douglass Parker 9781624661860
RRP: $102.88Booksplease Price: $86.14Three 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: $86.08Booksplease Price: $72.79Featuring 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... -
Electra, Phoenician Women, Bacchae, and Iphigenia at Aulis by Euripides 9781603844611
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $69.47The 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: $86.08Booksplease Price: $72.79Apologies 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.97Apologies 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.97Apologies 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
Booksplease Price: $27.85As 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... -
Iphigenia in Aulis by Euripides 9781566631112
Booksplease Price: $18.29Agamemnon'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: $16.78Booksplease Price: $14.99Original 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: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30Apologies 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.97Apologies 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 -
The Electra Plays by Peter Meineck 9780872209657
RRP: $77.68Booksplease Price: $66.13Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Euripides: Electra; Sophocles: ElectraAbout the AuthorPeter Meineck is Associate Professor of Classics at New York University, where he holds the endowed chair in Classics in the Modern World. He is the founder of Aquila... -
Theban Plays by Sophocles 9780872205864
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $64.47This 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... -
Three Comedies: "Miles Gloriosus," "Pseudolus," "Rudens" by Plautus 9780801495946
RRP: $56.68Booksplease Price: $48.74A 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... -
The Ancient Quarrel Between Poetry and Philosophy by Thomas Gould 9780691600956
RRP: $109.20Booksplease Price: $101.37Affecting 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... -
Medea by Euripides 9780198720928
Booksplease Price: $127.43MedeaBook 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
Booksplease Price: $224.28Based 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
Booksplease Price: $12.66With 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... -
Acharnians, Lysistrata, Clouds by Aristophanes 9780941051583
RRP: $46.18Booksplease Price: $39.98Apologies 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: $27.28Booksplease Price: $24.97Apologies 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 & CoWeight(grams)... -
Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus by Euripides 9780872208230
RRP: $75.58Booksplease Price: $64.47This 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: $58.78Booksplease Price: $51.14This 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: $25.18Booksplease Price: $21.99This 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 9780872203624
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.29This 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: $75.58Booksplease Price: $64.47Meineck 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... -
The Trojan Women by Alan Shapiro 9780195374933
Booksplease Price: $169.28Among 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
Booksplease Price: $224.28Based 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... -
Hecuba by Euripides 9780195068740
RRP: $30.43Booksplease Price: $28.62Based 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
Booksplease Price: $18.29Aristophanes' 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... -
Aristophanes and Menander: Three Comedies: Peace, Money, the God, and Samia by Douglass Parker 9781624661853
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $31.65Three 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: $29.38Booksplease Price: $26.65Featuring 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... -
Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women by Euripides 9781603847360
RRP: $81.88Booksplease Price: $69.47Diane 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...