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...
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Plays by Nation - Greek and Roman Plays
The Roman Stage
W Beare
Used Copy
$39.99
Elektra - a tragedy in one-act (libretto)
Hugo von Hofmannsthal & Richard Strauss - very rare
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$19.99
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 ...
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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...
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The Tenth Muse - Classical Drama in translation
Charles Doria - ed
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$19.99
Cavafy - Complete poems
Cavafy - intro W. H. Auden trans Rae Dalven
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$29.99
Comedies of Terence
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
Alcestis
Euripides trans William Arrowsmith
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$29.99
Hippolytos
Euripides
Used Copy
A new translation by Robert Bagg
$19.99
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 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...
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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...
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The Rope and Other Plays
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...
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Euripides Plays 2 - Hecuba & The Women of Troy & Iphigenia at Aulis & Cyclops
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...
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The Theban Plays - King Oedipus & Oedipus at Colonus & Antigone
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...
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The Oresteian Trilogy - Agamemnon & The Choephori & The Eumenides
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...
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