The Greek Plays

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

The stirring tale of a legendary royal family's fall and ultimate redemption, the Theban trilogy endures as the crowning achievement of Greek drama...

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

Reducere. "Shaw will not allow complacency; he hates second-hand opinions; he attacks fashion; he continually challenges and unsettles, questioning and provo...

Reducere. A vocabulary of Yiddish terms, common expressions, and proverbs. Many Yiddish terms have entered the English language, describing character or emot...

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

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

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. Among the most celebrated plays of ancient Athens, Antigone is one of the seven surviving dramas by the great Greek playwright, Sophocles, now avai...

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

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...

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

Reducere. Nicholas Rudall, whose acclaimed translations of Ibsen and the Greek classic playwrights have brought a fresh perspective to the American theater, ...

Reducere. Boasting 24 of Sherlock Holmes's finest adventures, this edition combines two classic collections first published in 1894 and 1905. Highlights incl...

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

Reducere. DescriptionThe Theban Trilogy consists of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone - together these tell the tragic story of Oedipus the ...

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 ...

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

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

Reducere. DescriptionGreek playwright, Aristophanes, lived during the 5th and 4th century BC and is considered one of the principal authors of the Greek clas...

DescriptionThis book is a fantastic introduction to the tricky subject of sex for children aged 9+. In a straightforward way, it explores what sex ...

DescriptionGrowing up isn't always easy - your brain is changing and there's many things to cope with from new emotions to stress. This book explor...

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

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...

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

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

Reducere. "A stunning, new translation by the poet and classicist Anne Carson, first performed in 2015 at the Almeida Theatre in London. Anne Carson writes, ...

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

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

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

Contributor(s): Author: MenanderTranslator: Norma MillerIntroduction by: Norma MillerMenander (c. 341-291 BC) was the foremost innovator of Greek N...

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

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

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

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...

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...

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...

Object Lessons is a series of short, beautifully designed books about the hidden lives of ordinary things. To hyphenate or not to hyphenate has bee...

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

(Applause Books). Covering the full scope of Western drama, from the ancient Greeks to the 20th century, these two volumes of Classical Monologues ...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

Reducere. In An Oresteia, the classicist Anne Carson combines three different versions of the tragedy of the house of Atreus -- A iskhylos' Agamemnon, Sophok...

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

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

Reducere. The greatest trick the First Vampire ever pulled was convincing the world that he didn't exist.Before the now-infamous Count Dracula ever tasted hi...

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

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

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

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...

Reducere. In these three raucous comedies, mortals outwit and even replace Zeus and other Olympian deities of the Greek Pantheon. As Aristophanes provokes la...

Reducere. * Finalist for the Headmistress Press Charlotte Mew Prize Ren e Vivien (n e Pauline Mary Tarn, 1877-1909) was an English expatriate who made her ho...

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

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

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...

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...

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

Reducere. While few soldiers may have read the works of Epictetus or Marcus Aurelius, it is undoubtedly true that the ancient philosophy known as Stoicism gu...

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