Aristophanes
Penguin
Aristophanes (c. 448x445 - 386x380 BC), the supreme master of Old Comedy, wrote plays whose cheerful obscenity and sharp political satire have never been equalled In The Wasps an old-fashioned father and hi...
$18.99
Aristophanes
Methuen
Aristophanes is the oldest comedic writer in Western literature Although only eleven of the some forty plays he wrote survive, his unique blend of slapstick, fantasy, bawy and political satire provide us ...
$25.99
David Greig
Capercaille Books
David Greig's fine adaptation produces a clarity of narrative and a simple, resonant language that renders the epic accessible' ~ Robert Thomson, Herald ' ... an incisive exploration of the relationship ...
$17.99
Lucius Annaeus Seneca trans Caryl Churchill
Nick Hern Books
"Churchill has written a bleakly eloquent new translation of Seneca's Roman tragedy ... Atreus, Agamemnon's father, takes revenge on his brother Thyestes by murdering Thyestes' sons and serving their fles...
$16.99
Aeschylus & Sophocles & Euripides
Methuen
A single-volume edition of the major Greek tragedies In a period of sixty-six years, three Athenian playwrights produced a series of tragedies which became a touchstone for drama for the next two and a ha...
$28.99
Charles Doria - ed
Used Copy
$19.99
Cavafy - intro W. H. Auden trans Rae Dalven
Used Copy
$29.99
Terence trans Echard with foreward by Robert Graves
Used Copy
Includes The Fair Andrian & The Mother-in-Law & The Self Tormentor & The Eunch & The Tricks of Phomio & The Brothers -
$35
Euripides trans William Arrowsmith
Used Copy
$29.99
Euripides
Used Copy
A new translation by Robert Bagg
$19.99
Ted Hughes
Faber & Faber
"Alcestis" is the tale of a queen sacrificing herself so her husband may live. Ted Hughes' classical translation was his final work, completed just before he died. As with his other works, it goes beyond its...
$12.99
Plautus
Penguin
Plautus (c.254-184 BC), perhaps the supreme comic writer of the Roman world, has also proved the most influential. The Pseudolus, with its love-lorn young man and quick-talking slave who try desperately to w...
$18.99
Tom McGrath
Capercaille Books
'As a dramatist, Tom McGrath's great strength is to pare things down to the fewest possible words, the sparsest settings, only the most elemental action His extraordinary stroke with Electra is to seize o...
$17.99
Euripides
Methuen
Written at the height of the Peloponnesian War, the three plays in this volume highlight the trivial causes and dire consequences of war and the fate of the innocent In Andromache, Hektor's widow struggle...
$19.99
Plautus
Penguin
The plays of Plautus (c. 254-184 BC) are the earliest complete works of Latin literature we possess. Plautus adapted for the amusement of Roman audiences the Greek New Comedy of the fourth century. His wit i...
$18.99
Euripides
Methuen
Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series Euripides' searching, poetic voice probes the waste and suffering of war in these plays which are set wake of the Trojan defeat to reflect the playw...
$19.99
Ezra Pound & Rudd Fleming from Sophocles
Faber & Faber
A translation of "Elektra" undertaken by Ezra Pound when he was confined to St Elizabeth's hospital in Washington under indictment for treason It includes a critical apparatus of variants and notes The tex...
$12.99
Sophocles
Penguin
'O Light! May I never look on you again, Revealed as I am, sinful in my begetting, Sinful in marriage, sinful in shedding of blood!' The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-starred offspring...
$18.99
Aeschylus
Penguin
'Anger still unreconciled Poisoning a house's life With darkness, treachery and strife' (47) Aeschylus (525c.456 BC) set his great trilogy in the immediate aftermath of the Fall of Troy, when King Agamemn...
$16.99
Sophocles
Naxos AudioBooks
This fully dramatised new translation of the great classic of Ancient Greece tells the anguished tale of Oedpus, who having solved the riddle of the Sphinx and become King of Thebes, gradually realises t...
$22.99
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