Author: Storey, Ian C. / Allan, Arlene Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This Blackwell Guide introduces ancient Greek drama, which flourished principally in Athens from the sixth century BC to the third century BC.A broad-ranging and systematically organised introduction ...
Author: Goldhill, Simon Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This is the only general introduction in English to Aeschylus' Oresteia, one of the most important and most influential of all Greek dramas. It discusses the Greek drama festival and the social and po...
Author: Scodel, Ruth Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides a brief and accessible introduction to Greek tragedy for students and general readers alike. Whether readers are studying Greek culture, performing a Greek tragedy, or simply intere...
Description: Written around 442 BC, Antigone is one of the tragedies of the Sophocles's Oedipus Trilogy. Oedipus's family is trapped by fate and doomed for three generations. Creon, the new ruler of Thebes, has de...
Author: Sidwell, Keith Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book provides a new interpretation of the nature of Old Comedy and its place at the heart of Athenian democratic politics. Professor Sidwell argues that Aristophanes and his rivals belonged to op...
Author: Plautus Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Asses, asses, and more asses! This new edition of Plautus' rumbustious comedy provides the complete original Latin text, witty scholarly commentary, and an English translation that both complements an...
Author: N/A Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Sophocles' Antigone comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for academic study and stage production. Diane Rayor's accurate yet accessible translation reflects the play's inherent thea...
Author: Austin, Norman Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Norman Austin brings both keen insight and a life-long engagement with his subject to this study of Sophocles’ late tragedy Philoctetes, a fifth-century BCE play adapted from an infamous inciden...
Author: Karakasis, Evangelos Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: This book offers a comprehensive examination of the language of Roman comedy in general and that of Terence in particular. The study explores Terence's use of language to differentiate his characters ...
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Author: Ibsen, Henrik Publisher: Book Jungle Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Henrik Ibsen, considered to be the father of modern drama, was a Norwegian playwright. He is responsible for "realistic drama". During the Victorian era Ibsen's writings were considered scandalous. ...
Author: Van Steen, Gonda A. H. Publisher: Princeton University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Aristophanes has enjoyed a conspicuous revival in nineteenth- and twentieth-century Greece. Here, Gonda Van Steen provides the first critical analysis of the role of the classical Athenian playwright ...
Author: Traill,Ariana Publisher: Cambridge University Press Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Taking a fresh look at mistaken identity in the work of an author who helped to introduce the device to comedy, Professor Traill shows how the outrageous mistakes many male characters in Menander make...
Author: Rehm, Rush Publisher: Routledge Format: Adobe PDF
Description: <P>Emphasizing the political nature of Greek tragedy, as theatre of, by and for the <i>polis</i>, Rush Rehm Characterizes Athens as a <i>performance culture</i>, one in w...
Author: Hunsinger, J. A. Publisher: Vinland Publishing Format: Adobe PDF
Description: The Settlers An Axe of Iron Novel This is a tale about a medieval people whose lives are surprisingly like ours. They have the same basic desires for happiness, love, food, and shelter that has domina...
Author: von Hillern, Wilhelmine Publisher: IndoEuropeanPublishing.com Format: Adobe PDF
Description: Wilhelmine von Hillern (11 March 1836 Munich - 15 December 1916 Hohenaschau) was a German actress and novelist. She was the daughter of the novelist Charlotte Birch-Pfeiffer. She was brought up in Be...
