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The Merchant of Venice John O'Connor 9781408236901
RRP: €12.00Booksplease Price: €11.40Fully updated to meet the needs of the 2010 GCSE English specifications. Exclusive awarding-body specific support to help students realise their full potential. The most accessible texts with... -
The Complete Plays of Sophocles: A New Translation by Sophocles
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €13.39Sophocles was the dominant Athenian playwright of the fifth century BCE. His best-known work, the three-play "Oedipus cycle" ("Oedipus the King", "Oedipus at Kolonos", and "Antigone"), traces three... -
Persians and Other Plays by Aeschylus
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.10Aeschylus is the first of the great Greek playwrights, and the four plays in this volume demonstrate the remarkable range of Greek tragedy. Persians is the only surviving tragedy to draw on... -
Four Comedies: The Braggart Soldier; The Brothers Menaechmus; The Haunted House; The Pot of Gold by Titus Maccius Plautus
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.59Plautus was the single greatest influence on Western comedy. Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors and Moliere's The Miser are two subsequent classics directly based on Plautine originals. Plautus himself... -
Sophocles I: Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus by David Grene
RRP: €14.40Booksplease Price: €13.68Sixty 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... -
Electra and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Of all the ancient Greek tragedians, Euripides was the most sensitive to the lives of women and other outcasts in Athenian society, and Electra and Other Plays collects five plays demonstrating his... -
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides 9780140449297
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €8.77Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert FaglesThis selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures... -
Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.50Iphigenia among the Taurians Bacchae Iphigenia at Aulis Rhesus The four plays newly translated in this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians... -
Phèdre: Édition bilingue by Jean Racine 9780140445916
RRP: €19.20Booksplease Price: €14.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780140445916Author Jean RacineFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Aeschylus I: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound by David Grene
Booksplease Price: €17.86Sixty 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... -
The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €11.08Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his... -
Sophocles II: Ajax, the Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes, the Trackers by David Grene
Booksplease Price: €17.86Sixty 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... -
Oedipus Rex by Sophocles 9780486268774 [USED COPY]
RRP: €3.59Booksplease Price: €2.36One of the greatest of the classic Greek tragedies and a masterpiece of dramatic construction. Catastrophe ensues when King Oedipus discovers he has inadvertently killed his father and married his... -
Oedipus Rex Sir Young 9780486268774
RRP: €3.59Booksplease Price: €3.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780486268774Author Sir YoungFormat PaperbackPage Count 64Imprint -
Odysseus at Troy: Ajax, Hecuba and Trojan Women by Euripides 9781585103966
RRP: €23.99Booksplease Price: €17.98Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585103966Author SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 304Imprint -
Oedipus Trilogy: New Versions of Sophocles# Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone by Sophocles
RRP: €16.79Booksplease Price: €12.36Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780593314951Author Sophocles SophoclesFormat PaperbackPage Count 352Impr -
The Comedies by Terence
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74'I thought you'd do what the common run of slaves normally do, cheating and tricking me because my son's having an affair.' Terence's comedies have provided plots and characters for comic drama from... -
Roman Comedy: Five Plays by Plautus and Terence: Menaechmi, Rudens and Truculentus by Plautus; Adelphoe and Eunuchus by Terence by Plautus 9781585103195
RRP: €25.19Booksplease Price: €18.79Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585103195Author PlautusFormat PaperbackPage Count 348Imprint -
Euripides IV: Helen, the Phoenician Women, Orestes by David Grene
Booksplease Price: €17.86Sixty 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... -
The Rope and Other Plays by Plautus
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74Brilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254 -184 bc ) are the earliest surviving complete works of Latin literature. The four plays collected... -
Aeschylus II: The Oresteia by David Grene
Booksplease Price: €16.73Sixty 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... -
Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, the Suppliant Women, Electra by David Grene
Booksplease Price: €17.86Sixty 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... -
The Bacchae and Other Plays by Euripides 9780140440447
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesuscompletes the new editions of... -
Phaedra and Other Plays by Seneca
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.74Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also... -
Trojan Women by Seneca 9780801494314
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €10.64This free and eloquent translation skillfully reproduces the imagery, power, and frequent irony and sarcasm of Seneca's language.Book InformationISBN 9780801494314Author SenecaFormat PaperbackPage... -
Four Tragedies and Octavia by Seneca
RRP: €15.59Booksplease Price: €11.08Based on the legends used in Greek drama, Seneca's plays are notable for the exuberant ruthlessness with which disastrous events are foretold and then pursued to their tragic and often bloodthirsty... -
Oedipus Plays: Oedipus Tyrannos; Oedipus at Kolonos; Antigone by Sophocles
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Oedipus Plays includes Timberlake Wertenbaker's translations of Sophocles' Oedipus Tyrannos, Oedipus at Kolonos and... -
Euripides I: Alcestis, Medea, the Children of Heracles, Hippolytus by David Grene
Booksplease Price: €16.73Sixty 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... -
The Bacchae Euripides 9780571239160
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €9.54One of the greatest of all Greek tragedies - savage, comic and intensely lyrical - The Bacchae powerfully dramatises the conflict between the emotional and rational sides of the human psyche. The... -
Oedipus The King by Sophocles 9780195054934
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.28In this highly-acclaimed translation of the most famous of all Greek tragedies, Stephen Berg - a well-known poet - and Diskin Clay - a distinguished classicist - combine their talents to produce a... -
The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary 9780713688764
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €12.06The Tragedy of Mariam, the Fair Queen of Jewry is a Jacobean closet drama by Elizabeth Tanfield Cary. First published in 1613, it was the first work by a woman to be published under her real name... -
Oedipus the King Sophocles 9780713686760
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €11.10Since it was first performed in Athens in the 420s BC, Oedipus the King has been widely regarded as Sophocles' greatest tragedy and one of the foundation stones of western drama. Taken as a model by... -
Casina, Amphitryon, Captivi, Pseudolus: Four Plays by Titus Maccius Plautus 9781585101559
RRP: €25.19Booksplease Price: €19.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781585101559Author PlautusFormat PaperbackPage Count 272Imprint -
Antigone: A New Adaptation of the Classic Greek Tragedy by Hollie McNish
RRP: €11.99Booksplease Price: €9.62A modern retelling of Sophocles' classic play, Antigone, by bestselling writer and poet Hollie McNishAs the daughter of Oedipus, Antigone was dealt a cruel hand at birth - even within the bounds of... -
Antigone Slavoj Zizek (Birkbeck Institute for Humanities, University of London, UK) 9781474269377
RRP: €17.99Booksplease Price: €16.13Antigone is universally celebrated as the ultimate figure of ethical resistance to the state power which oversteps its legitimate scope and as the defender of simple human dignity (more important... -
Euripides III: Heracles, the Trojan Women, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Ion by David Grene
Booksplease Price: €17.86Sixty 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... -
Oedipus Tyrranos by Sophocles
Booksplease Price: €17.09This Norton Critical Edition includes: Emily Wilson's superb translation of Sophocles' best-known play, accompanied by her engaging introduction, translator's note and explanatory footnotes... -
Medea by Euripides 9781839041150
RRP: €13.19Booksplease Price: €10.10'She's chucked out like an old coat that nae langer fits him...' Medea and Jason, clinging together as refugees in Corinth, have struggled to bring up their beloved offspring in this alien and... -
The Complete Sophocles: Volume I: The Theban Plays by Peter Burian 9780195388800
RRP: €16.19Booksplease Price: €12.28This volume collects for the first time three of Sophocles most moving tragedies, all set in mythical Thebes: Oedipus the King, perhaps the most powerful of all Greek tragedies; Oedipus at Colonus, a... -
Iphigenia Among the Taurians by Euripides
RRP: €12.00Booksplease Price: €10.87I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of Tyndareus My father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and critics as Anne Carson. The New York Times Book...