Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes

Four Tragedies: Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes
Sophocles (Author), Peter Meineck (Translator), Paul Woodruff (Translator)
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Meineck and Woodruff's new annotated translations of Sophocles' Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, and Philoctetes combine the same standards of accuracy, concision, clarity, and powerful speech that have so often made their Theban Plays a source of epiphany in the classroom and of understanding in the theatre. Woodruff's Introduction offers a brisk and stimulating discussion of central themes in Sophoclean drama, the life of the playwright, staging issues, and each of the four featured plays.

• Rank: #81705 in Books
• Published on: 2007-09-07
• Original language: English
• Dimensions: 8.50" h x 5.50" w x .75" l,
• Binding: Paperback
• 368 pages

Die Lilien von Frankreich: Liebe, Macht und Aberglauben (German Edition)

Die Lilien von Frankreich: Liebe, Macht und Aberglauben (German Edition)
Ellen Alpsten (Author)

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"So fesselnd, farbig und sprachgewaltig, wie schon die Zarin..." FREUNDIN

"Drei starke Frauen kämpfen um die Krone von Frankreich..." BAYRISCHE RUNDSCHAU

"Hass ist die Kehrseite der Liebe. Wer das vergisst, muss sterben..." BRIIGITTE YOUNG MISS

Ein fesselnder Roman, der Phantasie und historische Wahrheit zu einem gewaltigen Panorama verstrickt. Das bewegende Drama zweier Frauen, deren leidenschaftlicher und unerbittlicher Kampf um die Krone Frankreichs, um ihre Liebe und um absolute Macht das spätmittelalterliche Europa an den Rand des Abgrunds bringt...

Frankreich, im 15. Jahrhundert: König Charles lebt in geistiger Umnachtung und seine Frau Isabeau, genannt die "Wölfin von Frankreich", greift nach der Herrschaft in dem zerrissenen Land, das von den Engländern angegriffen wird.
Doch die "Reine Maudite" sieht sich einer Vielzahl von ihr ebenbürtigen Feinden gegenüber, allen voran ihre Cousine Yolanda von Anjou. Das Land versinkt im Unglück und der Gewalt des hundertjährigen Krieges, der Frankreich zerfleischt.
Beide Frauen, Isabeau wie Yolanda, zahlen einen hohen Preis für ihren Kampf und opfern ihre wahre Liebe ihrem Traum von einem geeinten Land.
Ein Ende kommt erst in Sicht, als Yolanda nicht davor zurückschreckt, eine alte Legende Wahrheit werden zu lassen: Eines Tages, so heißt es, wird Frankreich durch eine Jungfrau in Rüstung gerettet werden. Doch wer ist dieses Bauernmädchen Jeanne wirklich? Und kann sie die den Bann brechen, in dem Isabeau und die Engländer unter ihrem Schwiegersohn Heinrich V. das Land gefangen halten?

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• Published on: 2014-02-28
• Released on: 2014-02-28
• Format: Kindle eBook

Aristophanes : The Birds

Aristophanes : The Birds
Aristophanes (Author), Jeffrey Henderson (Translator)
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This is an English translation of Aristophanes’ greatest comedy the Birds and is the story of birds taking control of the government. Includes background material on the historical and cultural context of this work, suggestions for further reading, and notes. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

• Rank: #155542 in Books
• Published on: 1999-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: .30" h x 5.50" w x 8.30" l, .35 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 98 pages

Four Morality Plays: The Castle of Perseverance / Magnyfycence / King Johan /Ane Satire of the Thie Estaitis (The Penguin English Library)

Four Morality Plays: The Castle of Perseverance / Magnyfycence / King Johan /Ane Satire of the Thie Estaitis (The Penguin English Library)
John Skelton (Author), Johan Bale (Author), David Lindsay (Author), Peter Happe (Editor)

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• Rank: #40595 in Books
• Published on: 1987-11-03
• Released on: 1987-11-03
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 720 pages

Aeschylus, I, Persians. Seven against Thebes. Suppliants. Prometheus Bound (Loeb Classical Library)

Aeschylus, I, Persians. Seven against Thebes. Suppliants. Prometheus Bound (Loeb Classical Library)
Aeschylus (Author), Alan H. Sommerstein (Translator)
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Aeschylus (ca. 525–456 BCE), the dramatist who made Athenian tragedy one of the world’s great art forms, witnessed the establishment of democracy at Athens and fought against the Persians at Marathon. He won the tragic prize at the City Dionysia thirteen times between ca. 499 and 458, and in his later years was probably victorious almost every time he put on a production, though Sophocles beat him at least once.

Of his total of about eighty plays, seven survive complete. The first volume of this new Loeb Classical Library edition offers fresh texts and translations by Alan H. Sommerstein of Persians, the only surviving Greek historical drama; Seven against Thebes, from a trilogy on the conflict between Oedipus’ sons; Suppliants, on the successful appeal by the daughters of Danaus to the king and people of Argos for protection against a forced marriage; and Prometheus Bound (of disputed authenticity), on the terrible punishment of Prometheus for giving fire to humans in defiance of Zeus.

• Rank: #803478 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-31
• Released on: 2009-03-02
• Original language: Ancient Greek
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 1.30" h x 4.40" w x 6.50" l, .95 pounds
• Binding: Hardcover
• 624 pages

Sophocles: Philoctetes (BCP Classic Commentaries Series)

Sophocles: Philoctetes (BCP Classic Commentaries Series)
Sophocles (Author), Sir Richard C. Jebb (Translator)
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This is one of the seven plays of Sophocles in the full editions by R.C. Jebb, all of which will be reissued under the BCP imprint. They have occasionally been reprinted but never before in affordable paperback versions. In this set, each volume contains a foreword by P.E. Easterling, concerned with Jebb and his contribution to Sophoclean scholarship; there follows an introduction by a noted Sophoclean scholar dealing with Jebb's treatment of the individual play and its value for - and contrast with - subsequent interpretations, for which a select bibliography is included.

• Rank: #982968 in Books
• Brand: Brand: Duckworth Publishers
• Published on: 2004-01-30
• Original language: Ancient Greek
• Number of items: 1
• Dimensions: 8.39" h x 5.43" w x 1.22" l, 1.10 pounds
• Binding: Paperback
• 354 pages

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