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!["Phaedra" - Ethics of Emotions in the Tragedies of Euripides, Seneca and Racine: Translated by Adriana Grzelak-Krzymianowska by Malgorzata Budzowska 9783631633052](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/1754000/1753573/9783631633052__25554.1706881571.jpg?c=1 ""Phaedra" - Ethics of Emotions in the Tragedies of Euripides, Seneca and Racine: Translated by Adriana Grzelak-Krzymianowska by Malgorzata Budzowska 9783631633052")
"Phaedra" - Ethics of Emotions in the Tragedies of Euripides, Seneca and Racine: Translated by Adriana Grzelak-Krzymianowska by Malgorzata Budzowska 9783631633052
RRP: $83.58Booksplease Price: $71.04Emotions as 'the early form of knowledge about the surrounding world' constitute a necessary component of the human psyche. Nevertheless, through the ages of the development of mankind, the emotional... -
Racine: From Ancient Myth to Tragic Modernity by Mitchell Greenberg 9780816660841
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $38.30A study of all of the major tragedies of Jean Racine, France's preeminent dramatist-and, according to many, its greatest and most representative author-Mitchell Greenberg's work offers an exploration... -
Tragedy in the Age of Oprah: Essays on Five Great Plays by Louis Fantasia 9780810885080
Booksplease Price: $215.27In an era of Twitter and televised therapy, it may seem that classic theatre has little place in contemporary society. Accustomed to the indulgences of a celebrity-driven culture, how can modern... -
Aristophanes: Wasps Craig Jendza 9781350344006
Booksplease Price: $148.87This is the first book-length study dedicated to Aristophanes' Wasps (422 BCE), which is arguably one of his most hilarious and inventive comedies. At the heart of Wasps is a comic conflict between... -
Marrano as Metaphor: The Jewish Presence in French Writing by Elaine Marks
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $44.94When Europeans in the Middle Ages spoke of "marranos," they were making a derogatory reference to "crypto-Jews"--those who publicly converted to and performed as Christians, but who remained secretly... -
I Want to Die, I Hate My Life: Three Essays on Tragedy and One on Beckett Simon Critchley 9781916809710
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $35.81"There is a common fallacy that is oddly and sadly even more widespread amongst non-philosophers than philosophers, that art is somehow explained by philosophy. It is not."The philosopher Simon... -
Women in Myth by Bettina L. Knapp 9780791431641
Booksplease Price: $54.75In Women in Myth, Bettina L. Knapp explores the role played by women in ancient societies through analysis of specific myths from nine different lands. The author probes issues as to how figures such... -
Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage by Jennifer Eun-Jung Row
RRP: $60.88Booksplease Price: $52.58Queer Velocities: Time, Sex, and Biopower on the Early Modern Stage explores how seventeenth-century French theater represents queer desire. In this book, the first queer theoretical treatment of... -
European Sacred Music by John Rutter 9780193436954
RRP: $49.35Booksplease Price: $41.98European Sacred Music is a collection of over 50 of the finest examples of sacred choral music from continental Europe, ranging from the sixteenth to twentieth centuries. John Rutter has prepared... -
Music at the Maison royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr by Deborah Kauffman 9780367588045
RRP: $96.58Booksplease Price: $91.10The history of music at the Maison royale de Saint-Louis at Saint-Cyr - the famous convent school founded by Madame de Maintenon and established by Louis XIV in 1686 as a royal foundation - is both...