Category: Ancient, Classical & Medieval

Rich anthologies of dramatic art and critical insight - varied, stimulating, broad in its view and deep in its perceptions...exciting variety of translations...enlightening essays from some of the most stiumlating minds of the century.- Leonard C. Pronko, author, Theatre East and West, Chair, Dept. of Theatre, Pomona College Includes: Aristophanes: Lysistrata, translated by Donald Sutherland; The Birds, translated by Walter Kerr; Menander: The Grouch, translated by Sheila D'Atri; Plautus: The Menaechmi, translated by Palmer Bovie; The Haunted House, translated by Palmer Bovie; Terence: The Sel...
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Electra and Other Plays

By: Sophocles; Watling, E. F. [Translator]; Watling, E. F. [Introduction];

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: Penguin Classics : 1953-04-30

Seller ID: 0140440283-4-26803733

ISBN-13: 9780140440287

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

All three of the great tragic poets of ancient Greece produced plays about the Electra myth. If Sophocles (496-406 B.C.) lacks the archaic grandeur of Aeschylus or the neurotic intensity of Euripides, his version is supreme for its power and humanity.
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Everyman and Medieval Miracle Plays

By: Cawley, A. C. [Editor]

Price: $3.43 USD

Publisher: Everyman Paperbacks : 1993-08-15

Seller ID: 046087280X-3-24586525

ISBN-13: 9780460872805

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

God's creations of man in a lyrical dramatization; Noah's cantankerous and hilariously funny wife refusing to leave without her friends; the Massacre of the Innocents Miracle Plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part of the poetic and dramatic tradition on which Shakespeare drew. Everyman discovers what you can't take with you when you go. He beseeches in turn friends, family (one pleads 'cramp in my toe'), possessions ('I follow no man in such voyages'), and finally falls back on moral and religious values. This is the most comprehensive paperback edition...
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Greek Tragedies, Vol. I (Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Oedipus the King, Antigone, Hippolytus)

By: David Grene; Lattimore, Richmond

Price: $3.49 USD

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press : 1960-02-01

Seller ID: 0226307743-4-20023915

ISBN-13: 9780226307749

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of "The Complete Greek Tragedies." Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.

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Greek Tragedies, Volume 1

By: Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides; David Grene [Editor]; Richmond Lattimore [Editor];

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press : 1992-02-24

Seller ID: 0226307905-4-24322014

ISBN-13: 9780226307909

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of "The Complete Greek Tragedies." Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.

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Greek Tragedies, Volume 1

By: Aeschylus; Sophocles; Euripides; David Grene [Editor]; Richmond Lattimore [Editor];

Price: $3.46 USD

Publisher: University Of Chicago Press : 1992-02-24

Seller ID: 0226307905-3-22242198

ISBN-13: 9780226307909

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Used: Good

In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of "The Complete Greek Tragedies." Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.

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Greek Tragedies, Volume 3

By: Grene, David [Editor]; Lattimore, Richmond [Editor];

Price: $3.55 USD

Publisher: University of Chicago Press : 1960-09-24

Seller ID: 0226307778-4-27971558

ISBN-13: 9780226307770

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Acceptable

In three paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer a selection of the most important and characteristic plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides from the nine-volume anthology of "The Complete Greek Tragedies." Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of more than three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use.
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Plautus: The Comedies (Volume 1) (Complete Roman Drama in Translation)

By: Slavitt, David R. [Editor]; Bovie, Palmer [Editor];

Price: $4.28 USD

Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press : 1995-06-01

Seller ID: 0801850711-3-28364081

ISBN-13: 9780801850714

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

"The works of Plautus," writes Palmer Bovie, "mark the real beginning of Roman literature." In these lively new translations, which effectively communicate the vitality and verve of the originals, the plays of Plautus are accessible to a new generation.Plays and translators: Volume 1: Amphitryon, Constance Carrier. Miles Gloriosus, Erich Segal. Captivi, Richard Moore. Casina, Richard Beacham. Curculio, Henry Taylor Volume 2: Rudens, Constance Carrier. Aulularia, Palmer Bovie. Bacchides, James Tatum. Mercator, George Garrett. Truculentus, James Tatum...
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Roman Drama: The Plays of Plautus and Terence; The Plays of Seneca

By: Plautus; Terence; Seneca; Frank O. Copley [Translator]; Moses Hadas [Translator];

Price: $7.43 USD

Publisher: Prentice Hall : 1965-06-01

Seller ID: 0672604558-3-28252479

ISBN-13: 9780672604553

Binding: paperback

Condition: Used: Good

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Category: Ancient, Classical & Medieval