Classical Tragedy - Greek and Roman: Eight Plays in Authoritative Modern Translations

Classical Tragedy - Greek and Roman: Eight Plays in Authoritative Modern Translations
Aeschylus (Author), Euripides (Author), Seneca (Author), Sophocles (Editor)
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(Applause Books). A collection of eight plays along with accompanying critical essays. Includes: "The Oresteia" Aeschylus; "Prometheus Bound" Aeschylus; "Oedipus the King" Sophocles; "Antigone" Sophocles; "Medea" Euripides; "The Bakkhai" Euripides; "Oedipus" Seneca; "Medea" Seneca.

• Rank: #196243 in Books
• Brand: Applause
• Published on: 2000-04-01
• Released on: 2000-04-01
• Original language: Greek
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x 1.14" w x 5.31" l, 1.30 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 576 pages

• Published by Applause Books 576 Pages
• Eight Plays with Critical Essays edited by Robert W. Corrigan
• Editor: Robert W. Corrigan Author: Various Authors

The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)

The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
William Shakespeare (Author), Barbara A. Mowat (Editor), Paul Werstine (Editor)
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Each edition includes: • Freshly edited text based on the best early printed version of the play • Full explanatory notes conveniently placed on pages facing the text of the play • Scene-by-scene plot summaries • A key to famous lines and phrases • An introduction to reading Shakespeare's language • An essay by an outstanding scholar providing a modern perspective on the play • Illustrations from the Folger Shakespeare Library's vast holdings of rare books Essay by Barbara A. Mowat The Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C., is home to the world's largest collection of Shakespeare's printed works, and a magnet for Shakespeare scholars from around the globe. In addition to exhibitions open to the public throughout the year, the Folger offers a full calendar of performances and programs. For more information, visit www.folger.edu.

• Rank: #65889 in Books
• Published on: 2004-06-22
• Released on: 2004-06-22
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 6.81" h x .75" w x 4.25" l, .30 pounds
• Binding: Mass Market Paperback
• 218 pages

Classical Comedy - Greek and Roman: Six Plays

Classical Comedy - Greek and Roman: Six Plays
Robert W. Corrigan (Author)
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(Applause Books). Rich anthologies of dramatic art and critical insight varied, stimulating, broad in its view and deep in its perceptions...exciting variety of translations...enlightening essays from some of the most stiumlating minds of the century. Leonard C. Pronko, author, Theatre East and West , Chair, Dept. of Theatre, Pomona College Includes: Aristophanes: Lysistrata, translated by Donald Sutherland; The Birds, translated by Walter Kerr; Menander: The Grouch, translated by Sheila D'Atri; Plautus: The Menaechmi, translated by Palmer Bovie; The Haunted House, translated by Palmer Bovie; Terence: The Self-Tormentor, translated by Palmer Bovie.

• Rank: #2570 in Books
• Brand: Applause
• Published on: 2000-04-01
• Released on: 2000-04-01
• Original language: Greek
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.68" h x .98" w x 5.31" l, 1.00 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 492 pages

• Published by Applause Books 492 Pages
• Six Plays edited by Robert W. Corrigan
• Author: Robert W. Corrigan

Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians (Penguin Classics)

Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, The Persians (Penguin Classics)
Philip Vellacott (Author), Aeschylus (Author)
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‘Your kindness to the human race has earned you this.
A god who would not bow to the gods’ anger – you
Transgressing right, gave privileges to mortal men’

Aeschylus (525–456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. In Prometheus Bound the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. The Suppliants tells the story of the fifty daughters of Danaus who must flee to escape enforced marriages, while Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus. And The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the aftermath of the defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, with a sympathetic portrayal of its disgraced King Xerxes.

Philip Vellacott’s evocative translation is accompanied by an introduction, with individual discussions of the plays, and their sources in history and mythology.

• Rank: #47768 in Books
• Published on: 1961-08-30
• Released on: 1961-08-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.80" h x .35" w x 5.08" l, .27 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Clouds

Clouds
Aristophanes (Author), Peter Meineck (Author)
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This line-for-line translation of Aristophanes' best-known comedy features an introduction on Old Comedy, and the place of Clouds and Aristophanic comedy within it. Footnotes and more detailed endnotes further distinguished this edition of a play famous for its caricature of Socrates and of the 'new learning'.

• Rank: #27426 in Books
• Published on: 2000-03
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.11" h x 5.43" w x .0" l, .35 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Oedipus the King (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)

Oedipus the King (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
Sophocles (Author), Stephen Berg (Translator), Diskin Clay (Translator)
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Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly recreate 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 sense of poetry evident in the originals. Under the editorship of Peter Burian and Alan Shaprio, each volume includes a critical introduction, commentary on difficult passages, ample stage directions, and a glossary of the mythical names and geographical references encountered in the dialogue.

Sophocles' Oedipus the King paves the way as the first in the series to appear in paperback. In this highly-acclaimed translation of the greatest of all Greek tragedies, Stephen Berg--the well-known poet--and Diskin Clay--the distinguished classicist--combine their talents to offer the contemporary reader a dazzling version of Sophocles' timeless work. Emphasizing the intensity of the spoken language, they capture the unrelenting power of Sophoclean drama.

No other English translation conveys the same terrifying emotional level, especially in the choral odes, the forceful descriptions of Jokasta's death, the blinding of Oedipus, and the final scene of desolation. Berg and Clay's translation--now available for the first time in paperback--both adheres strictly to the original meaning of the play and breathes new life into its language.

• Rank: #31283 in Books
• Published on: 1988-03-31
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.87" h x .28" w x 5.31" l, .25 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 128 pages

Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)

Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Aristophanes (Author), Shomit Dutta (Editor, Introduction)
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Marrying deft social commentary to a rich, earthy comedy, the three comedies collected in Aristophanes' "The Frogs and Other Plays" offers a unique insight into one of the most turbulent periods in Ancient Greek history. This "Penguin Classics" edition is translated by David Barrett with revisions, an introduction and notes by Shomit Dutta. The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In "The Frogs", written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysus descends to the Underworld to bring back a poet who can help Athens in its darkest hour, and stages a great debate to help him decide between the traditional wisdom of Aeschylus and the brilliant modernity of Euripides. The clash of generations and values is also the object of Aristophanes' satire in Wasps, in which an old-fashioned father and his loose-living son come to blows and end up in court. And in "Women at the Thesmophoria", the famous Greek tragedian Euripides, accused of misogyny, persuades a relative to infiltrate an all-women festival to find out whether revenge is being plotted against him. Shomit Dutta's introduction discusses Aristophanes' life, the cultural context of his work and conventions of Greek comedy. This updated version of David Barrett's translation also includes extensive notes and a preface for each play. Aristophanes (c.445-386 BC) was probably born in Athens. Little is known about his life, but there is a portrait of him in "Plato's Symposium". He was twice threatened with prosecution for his outspoken attacks on the prominent politician Cleon, but in 405 he was publicly honoured and crowned for promoting Athenian civic unity in "The Frogs". Aristophanes had his first comedy produced when he was about twenty-one, and wrote forty plays in all. The eleven surviving plays of Aristophanes are published in the "Penguin Classics" series as "The Birds and Other Plays", "Lysistrata and Other Plays", "The Wasps and Other Plays" and "The Frogs and Other Plays". If you enjoyed "The Frogs and Other Plays", you might like Aristophanes' "Lysistrata and Other Plays", also available in "Penguin Classics".

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• Published on: 2007-04-06
• Released on: 2007-04-06
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.80" h x .67" w x 5.08" l, .47 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 256 pages

The Pot of Gold and Other Plays (Classics)

The Pot of Gold and Other Plays (Classics)
Plautus (Author), E. F. Watling (Author)
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Plautus's broad humor, reflecting Roman manners and contemporary life, is revealed in these five plays: The Pot of Gold (Aulularia), The Prisoners (Captivi), The Brothers Menaechmus (Menaechmi), The Swaggering Soldier (Miles Gloriosus), and Pseudolus.

• Rank: #41095 in Books
• Published on: 1965-09-30
• Released on: 1965-09-30
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.80" h x .63" w x 5.08" l, .45 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 272 pages

The Oresteia

The Oresteia
Aeschylus (Author), Hugh Lloyd-Jones (Translator)
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The most famous series of ancient Greek plays, and the only surviving trilogy, is the Oresteia of Aeschylus, consisting of Agamemnon, Choephoroe, and Eumenides. These three plays recount the murder of Agamemnon by his queen Clytemnestra on his return from Troy with the captive Trojan princess Cassandra; the murder in turn of Clytemnestra by their son Orestes; and Orestes' subsequent pursuit by the Avenging Furies (Eumenides) and eventual absolution.
Hugh Lloyd-Jones's informative notes elucidate the text, and introductions to each play set the trilogy against the background of Greek religion as a whole and Greek tragedy in particular, providing a balanced assessment of Aeschylus's dramatic art.

• Rank: #2437 in Books
• Published on: 1993-08-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.27" h x .75" w x 5.51" l, .69 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 288 pages

Clouds (Clarendon Paperbacks)

Clouds (Clarendon Paperbacks)
Aristophanes (Author), Kenneth Dover (Editor)
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This new paperback edition of Aristophanes' popular play includes the complete Greek text and extensive notes and commentary. Dover examines the two versions of the play, recounts the history of the text, and analyzes a number of problems surrounding the play's interpretation, including the Greek notion of right and wrong, the purpose of the chorus, and Aristophanes' sexual jokes.

• Rank: #591098 in Books
• Published on: 1989-09-28
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.28" h x .87" w x 4.92" l, 1.05 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 416 pages

Ovid's Metamorphoses Books 1-5 (Bks 1-5)

Ovid's Metamorphoses Books 1-5 (Bks 1-5)
Ovid (Author), William S. Anderson (Editor)
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One of the most influential and popular works in all literature, Ovid’s Metamorphoses is a weaving-together of classical myths, extending in time from the creation of the world to the death of Julius Caesar. This volume provides the Latin text of the first five books of the poem and the most detailed commentary available in English for these books.

In his introduction to the volume, editor William S. Anderson provides essential background information, discussing Ovid’s life, the reception of the Metamorphoses during Ovid’s day and after, and the poem’s central issues. The Latin text of the five books is Anderson’s own edition, based on years of study of the surviving manuscripts. In the extensive notes that follow the text, Anderson offers both useful summaries of the stories and detailed line-by-line comments.

Unlike other epic poems, which concern wars and heroism, the Metamorphoses centers on ordinary human beings, women as well as men, who live in a world of continuous change. The first five books, which include such well-known stories as Apollo and Daphane, Diana and Actaeon, and Narcissus and Echo, deal especially with the relationship between human beings and the gods. Arrogant and lustful, but all-powerful, the gods of Ovid’s universe selfishly pursue their own pleasures, frequently at the expense of their human targets. Yet these gods escape unscathed, while the humans, unjustly, are punished. Helpless to defend themselves, they are changed into animal or nonhuman forms.

A resource for students and scholars of Latin, this volume enhances understanding and enjoyment of Ovid’s changeable poem about our changeable existence.

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• Published on: 1998-01-15
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 7.48" h x 1.22" w x 4.72" l, 1.18 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 584 pages