Three Plays by Aristophanes, Paperback

This volume provides modern, uncensored translations of Aristophanes' Acharnians, Knights, and Wasps. These translations allow readers to explore t...

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

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

Reducere. Award NameLambda Literary AwardsAward categoryDrama/TheaterDescriptionMae West, wise-cracking vaudeville performer, was one of the most controversi...

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

Publisher: Nabu PressAuthor(s): AristophanesIllustration(s): Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 200Publication date: 2010Dimensions: 24...

A "zany [and] inventive" (Emily Wilson) translation that for the first time captures both the antic outrageousness and lyrical brilliance of antiqu...

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...

Reducere. A Classic Available Again Aristophanes was the greatest writer of ancient Athenian "old comedy, " known for its satires of contemporary life and fo...

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

One of the greatest playwrights of Ancient Greece, the works of Euripides (484 406 BC) were revolutionary in their depiction of tragic events cause...

Described as 'America's greatest living playwright' (Wall Street Journal), Kenneth Lonergan is internationally acclaimed for his trademark humour a...

Reducere. Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Three intricately interwoven plays about family, heritage and legacy, centring around about a Sheffield manufacturing family.Publisher: Nick Hern B...

Lysistrata persuades the women of Greece to withhold sexual privileges from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing the men to negotiate pe...

This anthology brings together six plays, all written or performed since 2017, by six brilliant Black British writers - Travis Alabanza, Firdos Ali...

Four seminal plays by one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. An existential portrayal of Hell in Sartre's best-known play, as w...

Redescopera farmecul lecturii si alege-ti de pe elefant.ro carti in limba engleza scrise de autori consacrati. Iti punem la dispozitie sute de mii ...

Publisher: Poetry Wales PressAuthor(s): Dannie AbseNumber of pages: 260Publication date: 1995Dimensions: 138 x 216 x 15Cover type: Paperback / soft...

Reducere. Twenty-three outstanding short length plays for a cast of one, two, or three actors are included in just one text. Absolutely no cuttings. Each pla...

For much of her career, Elfriede Jelinek has been maligned in the press for both her unrelenting critique of Austrian complicity in the Holocaust a...

DescriptionGalway author Seamus Scanlon presents 3 new inter-related plays, based around the central character of Victor, and a new short story.

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...

This book provides for the first time modern-spelling, fully annotated editions of three important Elizabethan and Jacobean 'usury plays' - The Thr...

Reducere. This is the central volume in Horton Foote's remarkable nine-play Orphans' Home Cycle, in which the author chronicles the evolution of a family--th...

Reducere. This collection includes two full-length plays, STRAY DOG STORY and JERKER, and three interconnected one-acts, DOG PLAYS. STRAY DOG STORY: In the o...

Publisher: Marion Boyars Publishers LtdAuthor(s): Witold GombrowiczTranslator: Louis IribarneNumber of pages: 256Publication date: 1995Dimensions: ...

PLAR4: Three Great Plays of Shakespeare Book and CD-ROM Pack - William Shakespeare

English Active Readers Level 4. Three Great Plays of Shakespeare Book + CD - William Shakespeare

Reducere. In Lysistrata a band of women tap into the awesome power of sex in order to end a war. @PussyWhip What’s something we can leverage against men? Wha...

DescriptionThe study of Naturalist theatre remains a staple and often foundational part of the curriculum at all levels of drama education. This an...

Reducere. His pictures of Harlem life are as fresh today as they were when they were first set down . . . --Long Beach Press-Telegraph

"Perfection is not the basis of what I'm talking about, " says a member of the Cassandra family, which forms the center of Denis Johnson's plays, H...

Three plays by Greece's most important modern dramatist. The Courtyard of Wonders (1957) and The Four Legs of the Table (1978) explore social issue...

Reducere. This is the second volume in a series that presents plays by Sweden's greatest living playwright in English. Lars Noren is generally considered Swe...

Reducere. Three dark comedies by award-winning playwright Gregory S Moss. sixsixsix is a "wickedly cunning take on Faust" (Flavorpill), a metaphysical reveng...

DescriptionFour plays inspired by and originating on the European stage from one of Britain's most important playwrights.Three Kingdoms was present...

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

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...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Author: Anton Pavlovich ChekhovBecause Chekhov s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, fr...

Reducere. Includes Mother and Child, Sleep My Baby Sleep, Afternoon, Beautiful and Death Variations Mother and Child is the intense journey of two individual...