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Aristophanes and Athens: An Introduction to the Plays by Douglas M. MacDowell 9780198721581
£28.87BL Covers every play, with extensive quotations in English Aristophanes' comedies are famous for their comic characters and earthy humour, but they are also highly topical, with many contemporary political allusions easily missed today. Douglas... -
The Plays and Fragments by Menander
RRP: £9.99£7.29Menander was the founding father of European comedy. From Ralph Roister Doister to What the Butler Saw, from Henry Fielding to P. G. Wodehouse, the stock motifs and characters can be traced back to him. The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy,... -
Iphigenia At Aulis by Euripedes
RRP: £14.99£10.35High King Agamemnon faces the most crushing dilemma of his life. Kill his beloved eldest daughter? Or forfeit victory in the Trojan War? A father's secret plot clashes with a girl's romantic dreams in this chilling classic play from Ancient Greece... -
Clouds / Wasps / Peace by Aristophanes
RRP: £24.95£22.92The master of Old Comedy.Aristophanes of Athens, one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and... -
The Alchemist by Ben Jonson 9781408110201
RRP: £10.99£9.66The Alchemist is set during a plague epidemic in the Liberty of Blackfriars in 1610 - and was first performed on tour in 1610 by the company whose London home at Blackfriars was temporarily closed due to a plague epidemic. The play is a sublimely... -
Magical Transformations on the Early Modern English Stage by Helen Ostovich
RRP: £39.99£36.71Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. It considers the ways in which performances of magic reflect and feed into a sense of... -
Bacchae: WITH Iphigenia at Aulis AND Rhesus by Euripidies
RRP: £24.95£22.92Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his... -
Aeschylus Tragoediae: Septem Quae Supersunt Tragoedias by Aeschylus 9780198145707
£25.94Contains the Greek texts of the seven extant plays of Aeschylus: "Persae", "Septem contra Thebas", "Supplices", "Agamemnon", "Choephoroe", "Eumenides", and "Prometheus Vinctus".Book InformationISBN 9780198145707Author Denys PageFormat HardbackPage Count... -
The Tragedy of Mariam by Elizabeth Cary 9780713688764
RRP: £9.99£9.36The 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. Never performed during Cary's lifetime, and apparently... -
Cyclops by Euripides
RRP: £24.95£22.92Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his... -
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2: Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
£16.50The second of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English... -
Children of Heracles: Hippolytus, Andromache, Hecuba by Euripides
RRP: £24.95£22.92Four plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his plays... -
Helen: WITH Phoenician Women AND Orestes by Euripides
RRP: £24.95£22.92Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his... -
Aristophanes: Fragments by Jeffrey Henderson
RRP: £24.95£22.92The master of Old Comedy.The eleven plays by Aristophanes that have come down to us intact brilliantly illuminate the eventful period spanned by his forty-year career, beginning with the first production in 427 BC. But the Athenians knew much more of his... -
Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, the Cyclops, Rhesus by David Grene
£12.69Sixty 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 succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Euripides: Bacchae by R. A. S. Seaford 9780856686092
RRP: £25.29£23.74Richard Seaford's edition of Euripides' Bacchae offers the first commentary in English on this fascinating play since that of E. R. Dodds in 1960. It takes account of the studies made on the play since it was written, as well as including discussion of... -
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays by Aeschylus 9781420962932
£8.05Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781420962932Author AeschylusFormat PaperbackPage Count 122Imprint Digireads.comPublisher Digireads.comWeight(grams) 163gDimensions(mm) 216mm * 140mm * 7mm -
Aeschylus II: The Oresteia by David Grene
RRP: £12.00£9.32Sixty 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 succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Aristophanes: Lysistrata by James Robson
RRP: £17.99£15.94Lysistrata is the most notorious of Aristophanes' comedies. First staged in 411 BCE, its action famously revolves around a sex strike launched by the women of Greece in an attempt to force their husbands to end the war. With its risque humour, vibrant... -
The Complete Plays of Sophocles: A New Translation by Sophocles
RRP: £10.99£7.65Sophocles 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 generations of a family ravaged by the inscrutably... -
Sophocles: v.2: "Antigone", "Women of Trachis", "Philocetes", "Oedipus at Colonus" by Sophocles
RRP: £24.95£22.92Ancient Athens' most successful tragedian.Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), with Aeschylus and Euripides, was one of the three great tragic poets of Athens, and is considered one of the world's greatest poets. The subjects of his plays were drawn from... -
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1: Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, Octavia by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
£16.50The first of two volumes collecting the complete tragedies of Seneca. Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca series offers authoritative, modern English... -
Tragedies, Volume I: Hercules. Trojan Women. Phoenician Women. Medea. Phaedra by Seneca
RRP: £24.95£22.92Spectacular verse drama.Seneca is a figure of first importance in both Roman politics and literature: a leading adviser to Nero who attempted to restrain the emperor's megalomania; a prolific moral philosopher; and the author of verse tragedies that... -
Orestes and Other Plays by Euripides
RRP: £11.99£8.43Ion Orestes The Phoenician Women The Suppliant Women In these four plays Euripides explores ethical and political themes,contrasting the claims of patriotism with family loyalty, pragmatism and expediency with justice, and the idea that 'might is... -
When Then is Now: Three Greek Tragedies: The Trojan Women, Medea, Antigone by Brendan Kennelly
RRP: £12.99£9.00"When Then is Now" brings together Brendan Kennelly's modern versions of three Greek tragedies: Antigone by Sophocles and Euripides' Medea and The Trojan Women. All three plays dramatise timeless human dilemmas as relevant now as they were in ancient... -
Frogs: WITH Assemblywoman AND Wealth by Aristophanes
RRP: £24.95£22.92The master of Old Comedy.Aristophanes of Athens, one of the world's greatest comic dramatists, has been admired since antiquity for his iridescent wit and beguiling fantasy, exuberant language, and brilliant satire of the social, intellectual, and... -
The Complete Euripides Volume I Trojan Women and Other Plays by Peter Burian
RRP: £11.49£9.62Based 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... -
Amphitryon: v. 1: WITH The Comedy of Asses AND The Pot of Gold AND The Two Bacchises AND The Captives by Titus Maccius Plautus
RRP: £24.95£22.92Funny happenings.The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences ca. 205-184 BC, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete and are cornerstones of the European theatrical tradition from Shakespeare and... -
Trojan Women by Euripides 9780674995741
RRP: £24.95£22.92Three plays by ancient Greece's third great tragedian.One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. The new Loeb Classical Library edition of his... -
Euripides II: Andromache, Hecuba, the Suppliant Women, Electra by David Grene
£12.69Sixty 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 succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Medea by Euripides
£8.37Though it wasn't successful at its first performance, in the centuries since then, Euripides's Medea has established itself as one of the most powerful and influential of the Greek tragedies. The story of the wronged wife who avenges herself upon her... -
Phormio: WITH The Mother-in-law AND The Brothers by Terence
RRP: £24.95£22.92The Roman comic playwright "whose every word delights."Terence brought to the Roman stage a bright comic voice and a refined sense of style. His six comedies-first produced in the half dozen years before his premature death in 159 BC-imaginatively... -
Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
RRP: £10.99£7.77Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, the exuberant, satirical form of festival drama which flourished during the heyday of classical Athenian culture in the fifth century BC. His plays are characterized by extraordinary... -
Four Greek Plays by Kenneth McLeish 9781853995835
£26.43These translations of "Oedipus the King", "Antigone", "Acharnians" and "Peace", are here reissued in paperback. They are written to be accessible for use in schools and for performance, and contain no Greek text.Author's works include "Roman Comedy"Book... -
Oedipus the King/Oedipus Rex by Sophocles
RRP: £8.99£7.99Since 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 Aristotle in his Poetics, it became a yardstick for... -
Greek Tragedy: Themes and Contexts by Laura Swift
RRP: £16.99£15.22The latest volume in the Classical World series, this book offers a much-needed up-to-date introduction to Greek tragedy, and covers the most important thematic topics studied at school or university level. After a brief analysis of the genre and main... -
Aeschylus I: The Persians, Seven Against Thebes, the Suppliant Maidens, Prometheus Bound by David Grene
£12.69Sixty 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 succeeded. Under the expert management of eminent... -
Oedipus The King by Sophocles
RRP: £8.99£6.45In 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 powerful version of Sophocles' timeless work. The volume... -
The Faber Pocket Guide to Greek and Roman Drama by John Burgess
RRP: £12.99£8.56An essential, refreshingly accessible guide to Greek and Roman drama containing entries for forty plays by all the major dramatists in the classical world - Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence and Seneca.Features... -
Aeschylus: v. III: Fragments by Aeschylus
RRP: £24.95£22.92Tantalizing quotations from lost tragedies.Aeschylus (ca. 525-456 BC), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world's great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens, fought against the Persians at Marathon and probably...