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  • Stagecraft in Euripides (Routledge Revivals)

    by Michael Halleran ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In Stagecraft in Euripides, first published in 1985, Professor Michael Halleran examines certain aspects of the dramaturgy of the most extensively preserved Attic tragedian.Although the ancient dramatic texts do not contain performance directions, they do imply stage actions. This work explores the ways Euripides utilises the latter to make a point: to underline some issue, to suggest a contrast, ... Read more

    $72.99 USD

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  • The Oresteia

    Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

    by Aeschylus, Robert Fagles, W. B. Stanford ...
    Translated by Robert Fagles ...
    One of the founding documents of Western culture and the only surviving ancient Greek trilogy, the Oresteia of Aeschylus is one of the great tragedies of all time.The three plays of the Oresteia portray the bloody events that follow the victorious return of King Agamemnon from the Trojan War, at the start of which he had sacrificed his daughter Iphigeneia to secure divine favor. After Iphi-geneia ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • Greek Tragedies III

    Aeschylus: The Eumenides; Sophocles: Philoctetes, Oedipus at Colonus; Euripides: The Bacchae, Alcestis

    by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides ...
    Series series The Complete Greek Tragedies
    This anthology collects some of the most important plays by Ancient Greek tragedians, in updated translations with new introductions.Greek Tragedies, Volume III presents some of the finest and most fundamental works of Western dramatic literature. It draws together plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from Chicago's acclaimed nine-volume series, Complete Greek Tragedies. This third edition ... Read more

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  • The Oresteian Trilogy

    by Aeschylus ...
    Translated by Philip Vellacott ...
    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. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover ... Read more

    $11.59 USD

  • Greek Tragedies II

    Tbe Libation Bearers • Electra • Iphigenia in Tauris, Electra, The Trojan Women

    by Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides ...
    Five classical Greek tragedies from three great playwrights of the era, featuring updated translations and new introductions.This anthology volume offers a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from Chicago's nine-volume Complete Greek Tragedies. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred ... Read more

    $2.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Theban Plays

    "Oedipus the Tyrant"; "Oedipus at Colonus"; "Antigone"

    by Sophocles ...
    Translated by Peter J. Ahrensdorf, Thomas L. Pangle ...
    Series series Agora Editions
    "These excellent translations will serve a useful purpose in the classroom in the hands of serious students of the profound relationship between literary wisdom and ethical-political thought." Leslie Rubin, Duquesne University, editor of Justice v. Law in Greek Political ThoughtThe timeless Theban tragedies of Sophocles—Oedipus the Tyrant, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone—have fascinated and moved ... Read more

    $16.19 USD

  • The Greek Plays

    Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

    by Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the KingFeaturing translations by Emily Wilson, Frank Nisetich, Sarah Ruden, Rachel Kitzinger, Mary Lefkowitz, and James RommThe great plays of Ancient Greece are ... Read more

    $4.99 USD

  • The Complete Euripides:Volume I: Trojan Women and Other Plays

    Volume I: Trojan Women 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

    $8.99 USD

  • Female Acts in Greek Tragedy

    by Helene P. Foley ...
    Series series Martin Classical Lectures
    Although Classical Athenian ideology did not permit women to exercise legal, economic, and social autonomy, the tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides often represent them as influential social and moral forces in their own right. Scholars have struggled to explain this seeming contradiction. Helene Foley shows how Greek tragedy uses gender relations to explore specific issues in the ... Read more

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  • The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1)

    Neglected Authors

    by Dr Matthew Wright ...
    Numerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that still survive. This book, by contrast, concentrates on the plays that no longer exist. Hundreds of tragedies were performed in Athens and further afield during the classical period, and even though nearly all are lost, a certain amount is known about them through fragments and other ... Read more

    $30.99 USD

  • The Strangeness of Tragedy

    by Paul Hammond ...
    This book reads tragedy as a genre in which the protagonist is estranged from the world around him, and, displaced in time, space, and language, comes to inhabit a milieu which is no longer shared by other characters. This alienation from others also entails a decomposition of the integrity of the individual, which is often seen in tragedy's uncertainty about the protagonists' autonomy: do they ... Read more

    $60.29 USD

  • Poetics

    by Aristotle ...
    Aristotle's 'Poetics' is the earliest surviving work of dramatic theory and the first extant philosophical treatise to focus on literary theory. ... Read more

    $0.99 USD

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