The Greek Plays

The Greek Trilogy of Luis Alfaro gathers together for the first time the three 'Greek' plays of the MacArthur Genius Award-winning Chicanx playwrig...

Reducere. Euripides is known in literature & fiction circles as a Greek tragedian of classical Athens. Euripides is one of the few whose dramas & plays have ...

DescriptionThe surviving works of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides have been familiar to readers and theatregoers for centuries; but these works ...

Reducere. These three ancient tragedies--Trojan Women, Helen, and Hecuba--dramatize the tragic fates of women in the wake of war. Euripides (480-406 BC) inno...

Reducere. DescriptionThe most famous series of ancient Greek plays, and the only surviving trilogy, is the Oresteia of Aeschylus, consisting of Agamemnon, Ch...

This text sets out to bring to life the Greek and Roman plays and their staging, evoking the visual and emotional character of performances and dra...

Reducere. Aeschylus (525 BC-456 BC) was an ancient Greek playwright. He is often recognized as the father or the founder of tragedy, and is the earliest of t...

Reducere. The three Theban plays, Antigone, Oedipus the King and Oedipus at Colonus, stand at the pinnacle of Greek tragedy. Even today they hold audiences t...

DescriptionNumerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that still survive. This bo...

The scripts of three shadow-plays translated from recollections of mutliple performances in Greek withnessed by Theodore Stephaides in various plac...

Reducere. A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: "The Oresteia" - Aeschylus; "Prometheus Bound" - Aeschylus; "Oedipus...

The comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205-184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete a...

The comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c. 205-184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive complete a...

Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' "The Frogs and Other Plays" offers a unique...

This first collection of his plays includes East, described by Berkoff as 'an outburst or revolt against the sloth of my youth and a desire to turn...

Combines archaeological evidence with literary analysis of key plays linked to the region to broaden the study of theatre outside fifth-century BCE...

Reducere. Only seven plays of the Ancient Greek dramatist Sophocles have survived to today. Sophocles is best known for his trilogy of dramas known as the "T...

Translated and edited by Peter D. Arnott, this classic and highly popular edition contains two essential plays in the development of Greek tragedy-...

Award-winningpoet-playwrights Robert Bagg and James Scully presenta gripping new translation of Western literature's earliest treasures in TheCompl...

The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C. Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three pl...

Reducere. DescriptionCollected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles ...

These contemporary translations of four Greek tragedies speak across time and connect readers and audiences with universal themes of war, trauma, s...

Reducere. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, So...

Reducere. The episode of the Transfiguration of Jesus plays a key role in the narrative of the Synoptic Gospels. Peter and his fellow Apostles have just ackn...

The six plays by Terence (died 159 BCE), all extant, imaginatively reformulate Greek New Comedy in realistic scenes and refined Latin. They include...

The six plays by Terence (died 159 BCE), all extant, imaginatively reformulate Greek New Comedy in realistic scenes and refined Latin. They include...

The rollicking comedies of Plautus, who brilliantly adapted Greek plays for Roman audiences c 205-184 BCE, are the earliest Latin works to survive ...

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encourage...

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encourage...

Reducere. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus,...

DescriptionAeschylus is a towering figure in western literature, the first of the great Greek playwrights, a dramatist whose work still has the pow...

Many themes of Aeschylus' Suppliants resonate strongly today, yet this edition is the first since 1889 to provide an English commentary based on th...

Reducere. Whether his target is the war between the sexes or his fellow playwright Euripides, Aristophanes is the most important Greek comic dramatist--and o...

Reducere. Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encourage...

Reducere. Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encourage...

Reducere. Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encourage...

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this series of new translations. Students are encourage...

Many themes of Aeschylus' Suppliants resonate strongly today, yet this edition is the first since 1889 to provide an English commentary based on th...

Reducere. The Frogs follows interpersonal conflicts between men and women, Greek gods, and the natural and supernatural. Using extraordinary circumstances, t...

Reducere. DescriptionBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Ae...

Reducere. DescriptionBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Ae...

DescriptionThe Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, ...

Reducere. Voices from Ancient Greece: Sources for Greek History, Society, and Culture provides students with an engaging exploration of one of the most influ...

DescriptionBrilliantly adapting Greek New Comedy for Roman audiences, the sublime comedies of Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) are the earliest surviving co...

Reducere. The great French playwright Jean Anouilh (1910-87) wrote both "pink" bittersweet comedies and "black" tragic dramas. Jean Anouilh Five Plays--the f...

Reducere. The citizens of ancient Athens enjoyed a freedom of speech as broad as our own. This freedom, parrhesia, the right to say what one pleased, how and...

Contributor(s): Author: EuripidesEditor: John HarrisonTreating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in t...

DescriptionEuripides turned to playwriting at a young age, achieving his first victory in the Athens' City Dionysia dramatic competitions in 441 BC...

Reducere. Sophocles, along with Aeschylus and Euripides, is considered one of three important ancient Greek tragedians. Writing during the 5th century BC, So...

This book explores the cultural, aesthetic, and political relevance of music in radio art from its beginnings to present day. Contributors include ...

Euripides III contains the plays "Heracles, " translated by William Arrowsmith; "The Trojan Women, " translated by Richmond Lattimore; "Iphigenia a...

Reducere. Sophocles II contains the plays "Ajax, " translated by John Moore; "The Women of Trachis, " translated by Michael Jameson; "Electra, " translated b...

Euripides IV contains the plays "Helen, " translated by Richmond Lattimore; "The Phoenician Women, " translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and "Orestes,...

Euripides II contains the plays "Andromache, " translated by Deborah Roberts; "Hecuba, " translated by William Arrowsmith; "The Suppliant Women, " ...

Reducere. I am Iphigenia, daughter of the daughter of TyndareusMy father killed me Few contemporary poets elicit such powerful responses from readers and cri...

Reducere. Do we take pleasure in reading ancient Greek tragedy despite the unsettling content or because of it? Does a safe aesthetic distance protect us fro...

Reducere. Based on the popularity of his first book of audition monologues (See above.), Ratliff has compiled another outstanding collection of monologues ta...

Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious ...

The humor in LYSISTRATA is the focus of this latest adaptation. Playwright Edward Einhorn, known for his comic absurdist plays, translates the anci...

Reducere. DescriptionBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies o...

Reducere. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus...

Reducere. DescriptionBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies o...

Reducere. Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus...

A recognized expert in New Testament Greek offers a historical understanding of the writing, transmission, and translation of the New Testament and...

Though it tells the stories of the defeated, Prometheus Bound and Other Plays features four tragedies that depict both unfortunate demises and the ...

Reducere. Aristophanes, a native Athenian and the leading exponent of Greek comedy, was born c. 450 BCE. Today forty-three of his plays are known by title; e...

DescriptionIn this provocative and interdisciplinary work, Michael J. Hyde develops a philosophy of communication ethics in which the practice of r...

Four seminal tragedies by the master Greek dramatist, in sparkling new translations Of the more than one hundred plays Sophocles wrote over the cou...

DescriptionFor the modern world Greek tragedy is represented almost entirely by those plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles and Euripides whose texts have ...

Aristophanes is the only surviving representative of Greek Old Comedy, an exuberant form of festival drama which flourished in Athens during the fi...