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A Cultural History of Comedy in Antiquity by mr Michael Ewans
Booksplease Price: £101.37Drawing together contributions from scholars in a wide range of fields inside Classics and Drama, this volume traces the development of comedic performance and examines the different characteristics... -
The Art of Greek Comedy by Katherine Lever 9781032225807
RRP: £31.99Booksplease Price: £31.19Originally published in 1956, this is a critical analysis of the comedies of Aristophanes and Menander studied in the context of the history of comedy, of the allied arts, and of contemporary life... -
Only a Voice: Essays by George Scialabba 9781804292006
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.25In Only a Voice, George Scialabba examines the chasm between modernity's promise of progress and the sobering reality of our present day through studies of the most influential public intellectuals... -
A Guide to Ancient Greek Drama by Ian C. Storey 9781118455128
RRP: £41.95Booksplease Price: £38.81This newly updated second edition features wide-ranging, systematically organized scholarship in a concise introduction to ancient Greek drama, which flourished from the sixth to third century BC... -
![Six Classical Greek Comedies: "Birds"; "Frogs"; "Women in Power"; "The Woman from Samos"; "Cyclops; and Alkestis" by Aristophanes 9780413771308](https://cdn11.bigcommerce.com/s-zkx5lhzlf8/images/stencil/444x444/products/5257131/5334391/9780413771308__95273.1724806032.jpg?c=1 "Six Classical Greek Comedies: "Birds"; "Frogs"; "Women in Power"; "The Woman from Samos"; "Cyclops; and Alkestis" by Aristophanes 9780413771308")
Six Classical Greek Comedies: "Birds"; "Frogs"; "Women in Power"; "The Woman from Samos"; "Cyclops; and Alkestis" by Aristophanes 9780413771308
Booksplease Price: £25.37Six wide ranging classic plays with introduction by the editor The comedies of the Athenian theatre not only lie at the root of Western drama, they also offer a unique insight into everyday life in... -
Christian Reading: Language, Ethics, and the Order of Things by Blossom Stefaniw 9780520300613
RRP: £80.00Booksplease Price: £70.89Christian Reading shifts the assumption that study of the Bible must be about the content of the Bible or aimed at confessional projects of religious instruction. Blossom Stefaniw focuses on the... -
The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism by Rachel Teubner 9781912302864
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £18.74The essay for which The Sacred Wood is primarily remembered is one of the most famous pieces of criticism in English: "Tradition and the Individual Talent" helped to re-orientate arguments about the... -
Exploring the Materiality of Food 'Stuffs': Transformations, Symbolic Consumption and Embodiments by Louise Steel 9780367874292
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £44.79From remote antiquity to contemporary contexts, food and the 'stuff' of food remains central to people's daily experiences as well as their sense and expression of identity. This volume explores the... -
The Art of Writing Fiction Andrew Cowan 9781138593695
RRP: £29.99Booksplease Price: £27.79An elegant and intimate insight into the personal and practical processes of writing, Andrew Cowan's The Art of Writing Fiction draws on his experience as a prize-winning novelist and his work with... -
Americanism: New Perspectives on the History of an Ideal by Joseph A. McCartin 9780807858974
Booksplease Price: £36.42This book provides a call to debate.What is Americanism? The contributors to this volume recognize Americanism in all its complexity - as an ideology, an articulation of the nation's rightful place... -
An Analysis of T.S. Eliot's The Sacred Wood: Essays on Poetry and Criticism Rachel Teubner 9781912127412
Booksplease Price: £6.68The essay for which The Sacred Wood is primarily remembered is one of the most famous pieces of criticism in English: "Tradition and the Individual Talent" helped to re-orientate arguments about the... -
Ekphrasis, Imagination and Persuasion in Ancient Rhetorical Theory and Practice Ruth Webb 9781138247819
RRP: £59.99Booksplease Price: £55.84This is a study of ekphrasis, the art of making listeners and readers 'see' in their imagination through words alone, as taught in ancient rhetorical schools and as used by Greek writers of the... -
The Art of Writing Fiction by Andrew Cowan 9781408248348
Booksplease Price: £32.29The Art of Writing Fiction guides the reader through the processes of creative writing from journal-keeping to editing, offering techniques for stimulating creativity and making language vivid... -
Shakespeare's Rhetoric of Comic Character by Karen Newman 9780415489089
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63First published in 1985. In this revisionist history of comic characterization, Karen Newman argues that, contrary to received opinion, Shakespeare was not the first comic dramatist to create... -
Thinking Men: Masculinity and its Self-Representation in the Classical Tradition by Lin Foxhall 9780415513562
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.49Thinking Men explores artistic and intellectual expression in the classical world as the self representation of man. It starts from the premise that the history of classical antiquity as the ancients... -
Naked Truths: Women, Sexuality and Gender in Classical Art and Archaeology Ann O Koloski-Ostrow 9780415217521
RRP: £49.99Booksplease Price: £46.79The articles in Naked Truths demonstrate the application of feminist theory to a diverse repertory of classical art: they offer topical and controversial readings on the material culture of the... -
The Archaeology of Household Activities by Penelope M. Allison
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69This pioneering collection engages with recent research in different areas of the archaeological discipline to bring together case-studies of the household material culture from later prehistoric and... -
Theophrastus' Characters: A New Introduction by Sonia Pertsinidis
RRP: £24.99Booksplease Price: £24.38This book presents an introduction to the Characters, a collection of thirty amusing descriptions of character types who lived in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The author of the work,... -
Between Byzantine Men: Desire, Homosociality, and Brotherhood in the Medieval Empire by Mark Masterson 9781032284446
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.69The presence and importance of same-sex desire between men in the Byzantine Empire has been understudied. While John Boswell and others tried to open a conversation about desire between Byzantine men... -
Theophrastus' Characters: A New Introduction Sonia Pertsinidis 9781138244436
Booksplease Price: £60.08This book presents an introduction to the Characters, a collection of thirty amusing descriptions of character types who lived in Athens in the fourth century BCE. The author of the work,... -
Resurrecting Pompeii by Estelle Lazer 9780415666336
RRP: £41.99Booksplease Price: £39.99Resurrecting Pompeii provides an in-depth study of a unique site from antiquity with information about a population who all died from the same known cause within a short period of time.Pompeii has... -
Roman Urbanism: Beyond The Consumer City Helen Parkins 9780415619417
RRP: £48.99Booksplease Price: £45.63The contributors to this volume provide an accessible and jargon-free insight into the notion of the Roman city; what shaped it, and how it both structured and reflected Roman society. Roman Urbanism... -
When A Young Man Falls in Love: The Sexual Exploitation of Women in New Comedy by Vincent J. Rosivach 9780415642798
RRP: £54.99Booksplease Price: £51.59When A Young Man Falls in Love examines the plays of New Comedy to reveal how the sexual relationships between the male and female protagonists are essentially exploitative. It poses important... -
Terence: Adelphoe by Terence
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £26.98The Adelphoe (The Brothers) of Terence is a Latin adaptation of a comedy of the same name by the Greek comic playwright Menander. The theme of the play is the perennially interesting question of the... -
Public Scholarship in Literary Studies by Rachel Arteaga 9781943208227
Booksplease Price: £14.85Public Scholarship in Literary Studies demonstrates that literary criticism has the potential not only to explain, but to actively change our terms of engagement with current realities. Rachel... -
Rough Beauty: Forty Seasons of Mountain Living by Karen Auvinen 9781501152290
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.55In the bestselling tradition of Cheryl Strayed's Wild and Helen MacDonald's H Is for Hawk, Karen Auvinen, an award-winning poet, ventures into the wilderness to seek answers to life's big questions... -
The Art of Her Deal: The Untold Story of Melania Trump by Mary Jordan 9781982113414
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £10.80In this "scrupulously reported biography" (NPR) Jordan documents how Melania Trump had discussing being First Lady nearly two decades before she landed in the White House and how she encouraged her... -
Body Clutter by Marla Cilley 9781416534624
Booksplease Price: £13.75Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781416534624Author Marla CilleyFormat PaperbackPage Count 256Imprint < -
Aristophanes, 2: Wasps, Lysistrata, Frogs, The Sexual Congress by Aristophanes 9780812216844
Booksplease Price: £32.97The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the... -
Mary Poppins, She Wrote: The Life of P. L. Travers by Valerie Lawson 9781476762920
Booksplease Price: £14.04The story of Mary Poppins, the quintessentially English and utterly magical children's nanny, is remarkable enough. She flew into the lives of the unsuspecting Banks family in a children's book that... -
The Rise of the Research University: A Sourcebook by Paul Reitter
Booksplease Price: £28.85The modern research university is a global institution with a rich history that stretches into an ivy-laden past, but for as much as we think we know about that past, most of the writings that have... -
Terence: Eunuchus by Terence 9780521458719
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £29.56Terence's Eunuchus (The Eunuch) was his most successful play in his lifetime but has been surprisingly neglected by modern commentators. In this first ever full-scale commentary in English, Professor... -
The Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek World by Rachel Mairs 9780367550271
RRP: £47.99Booksplease Price: £45.59This volume provides a thorough conspectus of the field of Graeco-Bactrian and Indo-Greek studies, mixing theoretical and historical surveys with critical and thought-provoking case studies in... -
Euripides, 3: Alcestis, Daughters of Troy, The Phoenician Women, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus by Euripides 9780812216509
Booksplease Price: £32.92The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the... -
Sophocles, 1: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes by Sophocles 9780812216530
RRP: £22.99Booksplease Price: £20.36The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the... -
Greek Comedy by Gilbert Norwood 9781032218076
RRP: £34.99Booksplease Price: £34.03Originally published in 1931, this book surveys the origin and development of Greek Comic Drama, with full discussion not only of Aristophanes and Menander but also of other important playwrights... -
The Silencing of Slaves in Early Jewish and Christian Texts by Ronald Charles
RRP: £45.99Booksplease Price: £43.08The Silencing of Slaves in Early Jewish and Christian Texts analyzes a large corpus of early Christian texts and Pseudepigraphic materials to understand how the authors of these texts used, abused... -
Euripides, 2: Hippolytus, Suppliant Women, Helen, Electra, Cyclops by Euripides 9780812216295
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the... -
The Letters: Alciphron, Aelian, and Philostratus by Aelian
Booksplease Price: £25.97Epistolary fictions.The Letters of Alciphron (second century AD) constitute one of the most attractive products of the Second Sophistic. They are fictitious compositions based on an astonishingly... -
Euripides, 1: Medea, Hecuba, Andromache, The Bacchae by David R. Slavitt
RRP: £31.00Booksplease Price: £26.61The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the...