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  • The Plays of Roswitha

    by Hroswitha Roswitha ...
    Many modern female writers are famous for their voluptuous style; their ungratified sex is expressed in such erotic art activity. The nun Hroswitha of Gandersheim (C. 940—1002) was the first known woman dramatist in German literature. She shows an out-spoken, sadistic-masochistic bent in her dreams, in their ample description of lustful, cruel and degrading scenes. It is apparent that the ... Read more

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  • The Pot of Gold and Other Plays

    by Plautus ...
    One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254-184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day. This collection features a varied selection of his finest plays, from the light-hearted comedy Pseudolus, in which the lovesick Calidorus and his slave try to liberate his lover from her pimp, to the more subversive The Prisoners, which ... Read more

    $11.39 USD

  • The Complete Aeschylus

    Volume I: The Oresteia

    by Aeschylus ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based 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 Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. Aeschylus' Oresteia, the only ancient tragic trilogy to ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • The Theater of War

    What Ancient Greek Tragedies Can Teach Us Today

    by Bryan Doerries ...
    For years theater director Bryan Doerries has been producing ancient Greek tragedies for a wide range of at-risk people in society. His is the personal and deeply passionate story of a life devoted to reclaiming the timeless power of an ancient artistic tradition to comfort the afflicted.Doerries leads an innovative public health project—Theater of War—that produces ancient dramas for current and ... Read more

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  • Prometheus Bound

    by Aeschylus, James Scully, C. John Herington ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of the world's foremost Aeschylean scholars, will come as a revelation. Scully and Herington accentuate the play's true power, drama, and relevance to modern times. Aeschylus originally wrote Prometheus ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

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  • Euripides I

    Alcestis, Medea, The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus

    by Euripides ...
    Translated by Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most, David Grene, Richmond Lattimore ...
    Series series The Complete Greek Tragedies
    Euripides I contains the plays “Alcestis,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; “Medea,” translated by Oliver Taplin; “The Children of Heracles,” translated by Mark Griffith; and “Hippolytus,” translated by David Grene.Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and ... Read more

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  • Iphigenia in Tauris

    by Euripides ...
    "The Iphigenia in Tauris is not in the modern sense a tragedy; it is a romantic play, beginning in a tragic atmosphere and moving through perils and escapes to a happy end. To the archaeologist the cause of this lies in the ritual on which the play is based. All Greek tragedies that we know have as their nucleus something which the Greeks called an Aition-a cause or origin. They all explain some ... Read more

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  • Hippolytus

    by Euripides ...
    Together with Aeschylus and Sophocles, Euripides provided the canon of Greek tragedy and thereby laid the foundation of Western theatre. Though little is known for certain of his early life, Euripides was probably born around 460 b.c.e. to the farmer Mnesarchus and his wife Clito, and his studious nature quickly led him to a literary life in Athens. His plays are often ironic, pessimistic, and ... Read more

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  • The Register

    by William Dean Howells ...
    William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885 novel The Rise of Silas Lapham is perhaps his best known, describing the rise and fall of an American ... Read more

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  • Delphi Complete Works of Richard Brinsley Sheridan (Illustrated)

    by Richard Brinsley Sheridan ...
    Series Book 13 - Delphi Series Eight
    A giant of eighteenth century theatre, Richard Brinsley Sheridan was an Irish satirist, playwright and poet. His celebrated plays ‘The Rivals’ and ‘The School for Scandal’ exerted a major influence on the development of English drama and continue to be performed worldwide today. For the first time in publishing history, this comprehensive eBook presents Sheridan’s complete works, with numerous ... Read more

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  • The Complete Euripides

    Volume II: Iphigenia in Tauris and Other Plays

    Edited by Peter Burian, Alan Shapiro ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The tragedies collected here were originally available as single ... Read more

    $13.29 USD

  • Recapturing Sophocles' Antigone

    by William Blake Tyrrell, Larry J. Bennett ...
    Series series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
    In this book, Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett examine Sophocles' Antigone in the context of its setting in fifth-century Athens. The authors attempt to create an interpretive environment that is true to the issues and interests of fifth-century Athenians, as opposed to those of modern scholars and philosophers. As they contextualize the play in the dynamics of ancient Athens, the authors ... Read more

    $44.59 USD