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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... -
Persians by Aeschylus 9780195070088
RRP: $30.43Booksplease Price: $23.06The Persians, Aeschylus' earliest surviving tragedy, holds a fascination both for readers of Greek drama and Greek history. Not only is it the earliest existing play in the Western tradition, it is... -
Shipwreck by Anne Washburn 9781786827364
Booksplease Price: $25.77From across the room I saw the President, torchlight playing across his visage. And the violins began, and the low rumble of the timpani. I screamed. I ran. An old farmhouse upstate. Snow is... -
The Poetry of Being and the Prose of the World in Early Greek Philosophy Victoria Wohl 9780520413320
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $52.94A free ebook version of this title is available through Luminos, University of California Press's Open Access publishing program. Visit www.luminosoa.org to learn more. The Presocratic philosophers,... -
LAMDA Acting Anthology: Volume 5 by LAMDA Exams 9781839043284
RRP: $46.20Booksplease Price: $34.90This anthology presents the set selection of solo and duologue scenes for Learners entering LAMDA Graded Examinations in Performance: Acting from Grade 1 to Grade 5. The 100 speeches and scenes in... -
The Faber Pocket Guide to Greek and Roman Drama by John Burgess 9780571219063
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38An 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,... -
Why Socrates Died: Dispelling the Myths by Robin Waterfield
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.38Socrates' trial and death together form an iconic moment in Western civilization. The picture we have of it - created by his immediate followers and perpetuated in countless works of literature and... -
Purgatorio by Ariel Dorfman
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $19.91A powerful and poetic play, with echoes of Jean-Paul Sartre's Huis Clos and Euripides' Medea. From the author of Death and the Maiden. A Man and a Woman in purgatory - a soul-less white room. Each... -
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... -
Four Plays By Aristophanes; the Clouds; the Birds; Lysistrata; the Frogs by Richmond Lattimore 9780452007178
RRP: $43.01Booksplease Price: $41.27Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist-and one of the greatest comic playwrights of all time. His... -
Poetics by Aristotle 9780140446364
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23One of the most powerful, perceptive and influential works of criticism in Western literary history In his near-contemporary account of classical Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic... -
The Complete Aeschylus: Volume II: Persians and Other Plays by Peter Burian 9780195373288
Booksplease Price: $31.98Based 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... -
Vampyr by David Rudkin 9781844576449
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.33Described by its maker as a 'poem of horror', Vampyr (1932) is one of the founding works of psychological horror cinema, adapted from a collection of gothic stories by Sheridan Le Fanu and directed... -
Metamorphoses by Ovid 9780393427936
Booksplease Price: $22.83Winner of the 2004 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets, Charles Martin's blank-verse translation of the Metamorphoses is a "smoothly readable, accurate,... -
Agamemnon by Aeschylus 9780299306342
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $20.29A new verse translation of Agamemnon, the first play in Aeschylus's trilogy The Oresteia. Agamemnon, King of Argos, returns to Greece a victor in the Trojan War, bringing with him the seer Cassandra... -
Antigone Sophocles 9780226844657
RRP: $21.00Booksplease Price: $18.65A stand-alone edition of Sophocles's Antigone taken from Chicago's renowned translations of the Greek tragedies. Drawn from the authoritative third edition of the University of Chicago Press's... -
Antigone by Anne Carson
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $15.86When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say... -
Dialogues and Essays by Seneca
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.48'No man is crushed by misfortune unless he has first been deceived by prosperity.' In these dialogues and essays the Stoic philosopher Seneca outlines his thoughts on how to live in a troubled... -
Plot and Character in the Iliad: Reading the Hero's Mind by Luigi Battezzato (Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa) 9781108972321
RRP: $84.00Booksplease Price: $78.62In this book, Luigi Battezzato argues that Homer's poem is a tightly woven narrative of motives, misreadings, and reversals. Bringing cognitive 'mind-reading' into dialogue with ancient scholia and... -
Death and Marriage: Greek and Roman Drama by Brian Arkins
RRP: $34.86Booksplease Price: $33.08This book aims to provide a comprehensive, but succinct analysis of the tragedies and comedies written by Greek and Roman dramatists. The book is comprehensive in the ways it deals not just with... -
The Oresteian Trilogy by Aeschylus
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $19.38Aeschylus (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... -
Poetics by Aristotle 9781854593337
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $15.58Part of the Nick Hern Books Dramatic Contexts series: important statements on the theatre by major figures in the theatre. One of the most influential tracts in world theatre, Aristotle's Poetics... -
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and The Holy Goddesses by Aeschylus 9780299315641
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $28.08First presented in the spring of 458 B.C.E. at the festival of Dionysus in Athens, Aeschylus' trilogy Oresteia won the first prize. Comprised of three plays-Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and The... -
Three Sisters by Anton Chekhov 9780393338140
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $17.72Anton Chekhov is a unique force in modern drama, his works cherished for their brilliant wit and insight into the human condition. In this stunning new translation of one of Chekhov's most popular... -
Greek Mythology: Gods and Heroes Brought to Life by Robert Garland 9781526776549
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Greek mythology isn't the equivalent of the Bible or the Qur'an. There is no standardized version of any myth. Myths aren't sacred. Whether you happen to be Homer, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides or... -
The Strange Undoing of Prudencia Hart by David Greig
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.78One wintry morning academic Prudencia Hart sets off to a conference in the Scottish Borders. Stranded there by snow, she is swept off on a dream-like journey of self discovery, complete with... -
Meno and Other Dialogues: Charmides, Laches, Lysis, Meno by Plato
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $16.11Meno Charmides Laches Lysis 'Do please try to tell us what courage is...' In these four dialogues Plato considers virtue and its definition. Charmides, Laches, and Lysis investigate the... -
Iphigenia in Splott Gary Owen 9781350435025
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $25.83Iphigenia in Splott is a one-woman play, first seen in 2015, loosely adapted from the ancient Greek tragedy by Euripides' Iphigenia in Aulis. The title character, Iphigenia (or "Effie"), finds escape... -
Oresteia by Aeschylus 9780199537815
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $14.11Agamemnon *Libation Bearers *Eumenides Aeschylus' Oresteia is the only trilogy to survive from Greek tragedy, and the religious and moral ideas it enacts afterwards influenced a great dramatic... -
The September Baby by Noel Streatfeild 9781035408559
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.45A treasury of inspiration for every September baby...Find out why you might give your September baby a name to do with hunting or home, what is meant by a gift of a bunch of agrimony and mallow, and... -
Greek To Us: The Fascinating, Funny and Surprising Ancient Greek That Shapes Our World John Davie 9781399424790
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $24.74Ancient Greek lives on in our culture in surprising ways. Sometimes funny - the word for an actor, hupokrites, gives us 'hypocrite'; sometimes beautiful - an astronaut is literally a sailor of the... -
The Burning Cauldron of Fiery Fire Anne Washburn 9781350625198
Booksplease Price: $28.33If you're not ready there's still hope for you. The change we aren't ready for transforms us. I'm ripping it down.Somewhere in foggy Northern California, an intentional community tries to live off... -
Phaedrus by Plato 9780199554027
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.23'Some of our greatest blessings come from madness Phaedrus is widely recognized as one of Plato's most profound and beautiful works. It takes the form of a dialogue between Socrates and Phaedrus... -
The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia by Aeschylus 9780199753635
Booksplease Price: $27.30Based 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... -
Four Films Harauld Hughes 9780571393060
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $23.18WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY RICHARD AYOADEThe defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber.This volume of Harauld Hughes's last four... -
The Captive Woman's Lament in Greek Tragedy by Casey Due
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $28.08The laments of captive women found in extant Athenian tragedy constitute a fundamentally subversive aspect of Greek drama. In performances supported by and intended for the male citizens of Athens,... -
The Complete Sophocles: Volume II: Electra and Other Plays by Peter Burian
Booksplease Price: $32.32Based 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... -
The Models Trilogy Harauld Hughes 9780571393107
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.74WITH A NEW FOREWORD BY RICHARD AYOADEThe defining work of the great midcentury visionary of stage and screen -- rediscovered and republished by Faber & Faber.This volume of Harauld Hughes's first... -
The Aeneid Virgil 9781324098553
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $30.81This new Aeneid-the first collaborative translation of the poem in English-is rendered in an unrhymed iambic pentameter that engages modern readers while preserving the epic dignity and pathos of the... -
The Annual Review of Women in World Religions: Volume I by Arvind Sharma 9780791408667
Booksplease Price: $71.63The Annual Review of Women in World Religions is polymethodic, interdisciplinary, and multitraditional in its approach to the study of women and religion. It not only allows the comparative dimension...