496円 Hippolytus By Euripides In most versions of the Hippolytos myth, Phaidra is depicted as an utterly debauched character, a woman reduced to shamelessness by the power of Aphrodite. In Euripides' Hippolytos, however--informed by the playwright's moral and religious fascination--we find a Phaidra re...

89円 Chremylus, a poor but just man, accompanied by his body-servant Carioーthe redeeming feature, by the by, of an otherwise dull play, the original type of the comic valet of the stage of all subsequent periodsーconsults the Delphic Oracle concerning his son, whether he ought not to be instructed i...

605円 The Last Days of Pompeii is a novel written by the Baron Edward Bulwer-Lytton in 1834. The novel was inspired by the painting The Last Day of Pompeii by the Russian painter Karl Briullov, which Bulwer-Lytton had seen in Milan. Once a very widely read book and now relatively neglected, it culmina...

107円 10 male, 5 female, 5 either cast! Free Royalty offer exended! There is no royalty fee for this play to be produced as a community theater or student production by a public or charter school before January 1, 2014. After January 1, 2014 – community theaters and school royalties are only $5 per per...

89円 THE CLOUDS is revised version of a comedy first performed at the Dionysia in 423 BC, and revised by Aristophanes several years later. The play satirizes intellectual fashions in classical Athens. The original version has not survived. Aristophanes (c.446 BC - c.386 BC) was a comic playwright of a...

299円 7 works of Sophocles Greek tragedians (497 BC - 406 BC) Translated by Richard Claverhouse Jebb This ebook presents a collection of 7 works of Sophocles. A dynamic table of contents allows you to jump directly to the work selected. Table of Contents: - Ajax - Antigone - Electra - Oedipus at C...

777円 A modern translation exclusive to signet From perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women, and The Cyclops.

1,122円 Many of the earliest books, particularly those dating back to the 1900s and before, are now extremely scarce and increasingly expensive. We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork.

933円 The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the firs...

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1,617円 Aeschylus (525-c.456 bc) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Cly...

1,867円 Having put his personal stamp on the contemporary theater, David Mamet now performs the supremely audacious feat of reinventing the theater of the past. He does so by telling his own ingenious and eerily moving version of the tragedy of Dr. Faustus. Mamet’s Faustusーlike Marlowe’s and Goethe’s be...