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A Medea Like So Many Others - ePlay Download
1 Male, 2 Female
A woman leaves her country to follow the man she loves, whose child she expects The breaking of any couple can be painful, but in that case it is tragic Euripides treated the subject in 431 BC, but this…
Aeschylus Plays 1 - The Persians & Prometheus Bound & The Suppliants & The Seven Against Thebes
The Persians - based on the destruction of the Persian invaders in 480BC, breaks with the Greek tradition of purely dramatising myths to deal with the recent past and with characters who would have been…
Amphitryon
5 Male, 2 Female
“The story of Jupiter’s cuckolding of Amphitryon has come in a variety of theatrical styles over the centuries. Plautus, by all accounts, had great success with it as a burlesque for the Romans;…
Antigone
7 Male, 4 Female
An incisive and intellectually stimulating translation of Sophocles classic drama by noted British playwright, translator and director While chronicling a pessimistic outlook of human history, Antigone…
Antigone
Antigone and Creon lock horns over the burial of her brother. The first great ‘resistance’ drama
Aristophanes & Menander - Women in Power & Wealth & Malcontent & Woman from Samos
*** 50% Discount *** An essential book for students of Greek drama and literature. Aristophanes is widely regarded as one of Ancient Greece’s foremost satirists - offering students of the period…
Aristophanes Plays 1 - The Acharnians & The Knights & Peace & Lysistrata
Reissue of Aristophanes’ most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series Aristophanes was a unique writer for the comic stage as well as one of the most revealing about the society…
Aristophanes Plays 2 - The Wasps & The Clouds & The Birds & Festival Time & The Frogs
*** 50% Discount *** 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…
Aristophanes and Menander (New Comedies) - Women in Power & Wealth & The Malcontent & The Woman from Samos
Written in the century following the defeat of Athens by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian War, these four plays signal a change of emphasis in stage comedy more appropriate to the new world order of the…
Clytemnestra - ePlay Download
Large Mixed Cast
Raped by her father, husband & son murdered - one woman’s vengeance launches the greatest war of all ... “For I am the unforgiving storm and I will see this world of men burn!” Before The Tudors - Before…
Electra
This classic of Greek tragedy revolves around Electra and her brother Orestes, who together take revenge on their mother Clytemnestra and her lover Aegisthus, for the murder of their father Agamemnon
Electra
‘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…
Electra and Other Plays - Ajax & Women of Trachic & Philoctetes
Ajax/Electra/Women of Trachis/Philoctetes ‘Now that he is dead, I turn to you; will you be brave enough To help me kill the man who killed our father?’ Sophocles’ innovative plays transformed…
Euripides Helen
Seven years have passed since the end of the Trojan War and Menelaus, King of Sparta and husband to Helen, is making his slow and painful way home When his ship is wrecked on the coast of Egypt he stumbles…
Euripides Plays 1 - Medea & The Phoenician Women & Bacchae
Always controversial, Euripides' plays are now celebrated for the subtlety of their characterisation and their unorthodox dramatic style This volume contains three of his finest tragedies ... Medea, the…
Euripides Plays 2 - Hecuba & The Women of Troy & Iphigenia at Aulis & Cyclops
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…
Euripides Plays 3 - Alkestis & Helen & Ion
The three plays in this volume straddle the borders between comedy and tragedy ... Alkestis is a moving "romance" with death and has parallels to Shakespeare's The Winter's Tale Helen, an alternative version…
Euripides Plays 4 - Elektra & Orestes & Iphigeneia in Tauris
This volume contains some of Euripides' most famous works ... Elektra which reverses previous notions of 'heroic' behaviour Orestes, in which almost all the characters are driven by base motives of cowardice…
Euripides Plays 5 - Andromache & Herakles’ Children & Herakles
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…
Euripides Plays 6 - Hippolytos & Suppliants & Rhesos
A dramatist whose trademark was the unexpected, Euripides has constantly challenged and intrigued audiences, from Athens of the fifth century BC to the present. The three plays in this volume demonstrate…
