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Roman Comedy by Kenneth McLeish 9780862921866
Booksplease Price: £25.91This useful volume in the Inside the Ancient World series is a clear, accessible introduction to Roman Comedy, aimed at the GCSE/A level student. The late Kenneth McLeish studied Classics and Music... -
The Great Philosophers: Aristotle by Kenneth Mcleish 9781399612326
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £4.92'Educating the mind without educating the heart is no education at all' Aristotle'Knowing yourself is the mark of all wisdom''You will never do anything in this world without courage'Aristotle was... -
Four Greek Plays by Kenneth McLeish 9781853995835
RRP: £26.99Booksplease Price: £16.41These 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... -
The Faber Pocket Guide to Shakespeare's Plays by Kenneth McLeish
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95Going to see a 'Shakespeare' and want a quick run-down on the plot before you start? Teaching the 'Henry's' and need a handy guide to all the histories for the students? A Pocket Guide to... -
Guide To Greek Theatre And Drama Kenneth McLeish 9780413720306
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £17.47A new and definitive guide to the theatre of the ancient world The Guide to Greek Theatre and Drama is a meticulously researched and accessible survey into the place and purpose of theatre in Ancient... -
Oedipus by Sophocles
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price The story of the mythical Greek king of Thebes, the archetypal tragic hero who accidentally fulfills a prophecy that he will end up... -
After the Trojan War: Women of Troy, Hecuba, Orestes by Euripides
Booksplease Price: £23.05Kenneth McLeish's stunning translations of three plays exploring the Trojan War, by one of the great Athenian dramatists. Each play shows the aftermath of war from a different standpoint. Women of... -
Don Juan by Moliere 9781854593566
Booksplease Price: £4.00Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Moliere's comedy about the notorious womaniser, in a fresh and performable translation by Kenneth McLeish. Set in Sicily,... -
Bacchae by Euripides 9781854594112
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.68Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price At the whim of Dionysos, a son is torn to pieces by his own mother during the famous women-only Bacchanalian ritual. The story of... -
Greek Tragedy: Three Plays by Euripides 9781854598479
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.79Three of the most famous tragedies from Ancient Greece, all featuring female protagonists - in modern, much-performed translations. This volume, in the Nick Hern Books Drama Classic Collections... -
Women of Troy by Euripides 9781854597137
Booksplease Price: £4.00Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price In the aftermath of the bloody Trojan Wars, the women of the city lament their fate and look fearfully ahead to the future. ... -
Feydeau Plays: v. 2: "The Girl from Maxim's"; "She's All Yours"; "A Flea in Her Ear"; "Jailbird" by Georges Feydeau 9780413769206
Booksplease Price: £26.60Kenneth McLeish's definitive translations of the most successful French dramatist of the Belle Epoque Georges Feydau (1862-1921) was the most successful French dramatist of the belle epoque and is... -
Miss Julie (Drama Classics) by August Strindberg
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Bored with her sheltered existence, Miss Julie attempts to seduce the footman, but gets far more than she bargained for... August... -
Poetics by Aristotle 9781854593337
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £7.42Part 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... -
A Doll's House by Henrik Ibsen 9781854592361
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.38Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Henrik Ibsen's revolutionary play about a woman's awakening to her need for a life of her own. A Doll's House was premiered at... -
Peer Gynt by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.68Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Henrik Ibsen's mighty epic, by turns fantastic and tragic, based on the Norwegian fairy tale Per Gynt. Ibsen's play, his last to... -
Hedda Gabler (Drama Classics) by Henrik Ibsen
RRP: £5.99Booksplease Price: £5.00Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price Restless and discontented in her marriage, Hedda Gabler is drawn to a former admirer, Lovborg, now a brilliant writer. But he is... -
Feydeau Plays: v.1: "Heart's Desire Hotel"; "Sauce for the Goose"; "The One That Got Away"; "Now You See it"; "Pig in a Poke" by Georges Feydeau 9780413761705
Booksplease Price: £27.20Kenneth McLeish's definitive translations of the most successful French dramatist of the Belle Epoque Georges Feydau (1862-1921) was the most successful French dramatist of the belle epoque and is... -
Euripides Plays: v.5: "Andromache", "Herakles Children"and "Herakles" by Euripides 9780413716408
Booksplease Price: £19.71Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series Written at the height of the Peloponnesian War, the three plays in this volume highlight the trivial causes and dire consequences of war and... -
"Elektra" by Euripides 9780413770400
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £10.99Authoritative student edition of Euripides' Enduring Classical Tragedy about filial revenge in Kenneth McLeish's acclaimed translation.Euripides takes the old myth of Orestes' and Elektra's revenge... -
Woyzeck (Drama Classics) by Georg Buchner 9781854591838 [USED COPY]
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £1.97Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price One of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre, Georg Buchner's Woyzeck is a modern classic that remains... -
Woyzeck (Drama Classics) by Georg Buchner 9781854591838
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.32Drama Classics: The World's Great Plays at a Great Little Price One of the most performed and influential plays in German theatre, Georg Buchner's Woyzeck is a modern classic that remains... -
Aristophanes Plays: v.1: "Acharnians", "Knights", "Peace", "Lysistrata" by Aristophanes 9780413669001
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.44Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series Aristophanes was a unique writer for the comic stage as well as one of the most revealing about the society... -
New Comedy: Aristophanes and Menander: "Women in Power", "Wealth", "The Malcontent", "The Woman from Samos" by Aristophanes 9780413671806
Booksplease Price: £19.71An essential book for students of Greek drama and literature: Aristophanes is widely regarded as one of Ancient Greece's foremost satirists - offering students of the period a unique insight into the... -
Aristophanes Plays: 2: Wasps; Clouds; Birds; Festival Time; Frogs by Aristophanes 9780413669100
Booksplease Price: £19.71Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series Aristophanes is the oldest comedic writer in Western literature. Although only eleven of the some forty... -
Plays: v.1: "The Persians", "Prometheus Bound", "The Suppliants" and "Seven Against Thebes" by F. Raphael 9780413651907
Booksplease Price: £18.18Classic plays reissued in the new Methuen Greek Classics series in a new distinctive style The Persians; based on the destruction of the Persian invaders in 480BC, breaks with the Greek tradition of...