Wasps
Aristophanes trans Alan H. Sommerstein - pb as new
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Plays by Nation - Greek and Roman Plays
Antigone
Sophocles - translated & introduced Marianne McDonald
Nick Hern Books
The first great 'resistance' drama - and perhaps the definitive Greek tragedy Creon, the King of Thebes, has forbidden the burial of Antigone's brother because he was put to death as a traitor to the crown ...
$7.99
Menander - Plays and Fragments
Menander
Penguin
'For what reason, in fact, is it truly worth while for an educated man to go to the theatre, except to enjoy Menander?' - Plutarch To the ancient world Menander (c. 3431-291 BC) was a poet second only to Hom...
$18.99
Three Plays - Miles Gloriosus & Amphitryon & The Prisoners
Plautus
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Euripides Plays 6 - Hippolytos & Suppliants & Rhesos
Euripides trans Frederic Raphael
Methuen
++ 75% DISCOUNT ++ A dramatist whose trademark was the unexpected, Euripides has constantly challenged and intrigued audiences, from Athens of the fifth century BC to the presentThe three plays in this volu...
$4.25
The Bacchae of Euripides - A New Translation with a Critical Essay
Donald Sutherland
Nebraska Press
This new translation of The Bacchae - that strange blend of Aeschylean grandeur and Euripidean finesse - is an attempt to reproduce for the American stage the play as it most probably was when new and unmuti...
$18.99
The Fair Andrian & The Mother-in-law & Self-tormentor & The Eunuch & Others
Terence edited & foreword by Robert Graves
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The Fair Andrian & The Mother-in-law & Self-tormentor & The Eunuch & Tricks of Phormio & The Brothers (slightly tatty)
$9.99
The Roman Stage
W Beare
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$39.99
Elektra - a tragedy in one-act (libretto)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal & Richard Strauss - very rare
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Oedipus the Visionary
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
Thyestes
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
Poetics
Aristotle
Penguin
Translated with an introduction and notes by Malcolm Heath 'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy, Aristotle examines the dramatic elements of pl...
$14.99
The Frogs and Other Plays
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...
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Aristophanes Plays 2 - The Wasps & The Clouds & The Birds & Festival Time & The Frogs
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
Six Greek Tragedies - Persians & Prometheus Unbound & Women of Trachis & Philoctetes & Trojan Women & Bacchae
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
The Tenth Muse - Classical Drama in translation
Charles Doria - ed
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Cavafy - Complete poems
Cavafy - intro W. H. Auden trans Rae Dalven
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$29.99
The Pot of Gold and Other Plays
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...
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Electra
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 Plays 5 - Andromache & Herakles' Children & Herakles
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