Classic plays / drama
Cambridge University Press King Henry V
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Cambridge University Press Antony and Cleopatra
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Cambridge University Press Measure for Measure
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Cambridge University Press Performing Shakespeares Tragedies Today The Actors Perspective
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Cambridge University Press The Poems
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Cambridge University Press Titus Andronicus
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare and Amateur Performance
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Cambridge University Press Macbeth
Book SynopsisThis second edition of Macbeth offers a thorough reconsideration of one of Shakespeare's most popular plays. Edited and introduced by A. R. Braunmuller, this edition features a new introductory section on recent productions of the play, including cinematic versions by Kurosawa and Roman Polanski.Trade Review'This updated edition of Macbeth reveals thorough research, it is conscientiously annotated, and it appears a superb tool for researchers and students involved in Shakespeare scholarship.' Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: Macbeth in legend, Macbeth in history; Macbeth in the mind; Macbeth in performance; Macbeth in the mind and in performance; Recent performances and adaptations; Note on the text; List of characters; The play; Supplementary notes; Textual analysis; Appendixes: 1. Casting Macbeth; 2. Additional text and music; 3. Relineation of the Folio; Reading list.
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Cambridge University Press The Second Part of King Henry IV
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Cambridge University Press The New Cambridge Companion to Shakespeare
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Cambridge University Press How to Read a Shakespearean Play Text
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeare Survey 74
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Cambridge University Press The Shakespearean Forest
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Cambridge University Press Shakespeares Tercentenary
Book SynopsisThe 1916 global commemorations of the three-hundredth anniversary of Shakespeare's death responded to imperial and national identity crises during the First World War. This study juxtaposes patriotic uses of Shakespeare with decentralising, racially and socially empowering voices, illuminating Shakespeare's legacies in modern politics.Trade Review'Shakespeare's Tercentenary is the first extensively documented and critically enriched survey of the 1916 celebrations on both sides of the Atlantic.This monograph addresses a topic essential to grasp Shakespeare's presence in the early decades of the twentieth-century and it will equally appeal to Shakespeare scholars, historians and students of cultural memory.' Clara Calvo, Professor of English Studies, University of Murcia'This book widens, deepens, and refines Shakespeare commemoration studies. The author's astute analysis of the Tercentenary is based on copious new sources and a sophisticated, theory-informed sense of how it serves many purposes, from global to national to local. Situating fine-grained interpretations in a rich context of fracturing empires, while also attending to voices from the margins of US society, she unpacks the contradictions underlying events celebrating Shakespeare as both 'universal' and English.' Coppélia Kahn, Professor Emerita of English, Brown University'No other scholar has Monika Smialkowska's sheer breadth of understanding of the global impact of the Shakespeare Tercentenary and of the extraordinary variety of uses to which Shakespeare was put in 1916, from patriotic to pacifist, from imperialist to anti-colonial, from racist to racially empowering. This is a fascinating and original study of the place of Shakespeare in global collective memory.' Gordon McMullan, Professor of English, King's College LondonTable of ContentsIntroduction; 1. 'Unser Shakespeare'? the tercentenary and Germany; 2. 'Our English Shakespeare'? the tercentenary and Britain; 3. Shakespeare among the Allies; 4. 'Not primarily patriotic'? the tercentenary and American national identity; 5. Voices from the margins: the tercentenary and American racial and ethnic minorities; Conclusion: lest we forget.
£80.75
Cambridge University Press Monody in Euripides
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Cambridge University Press Wartime Shakespeare
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Cambridge University Press Julius Caesar
Book SynopsisFor this third edition of Julius Caesar Jeremy Lopez has written a completely new Introduction and has also revised the textual commentary with an eye, and ear, to the contemporary student reader. The list of further readings has been updated to reflect the latest developments in scholarly criticism.Table of ContentsIntroduction Jeremy Lopez; Note on the text; Note on the commentary; List of characters; The play; Textual analysis; Appendix: excerpts from Plutarch; Reading list.
£12.29
Cambridge University Press Childhood Education and the Stage in Early Modern
Book SynopsisWhat did childhood mean in early modern England? To answer this question, this book examines two key contemporary institutions: the school and the stage. The rise of grammar schools and universities, and of the professional stage featuring boy actors, reflect the culture''s massive investment in children. In this collection, an international group of well-respected scholars examines how the representation of children by major playwrights and poets reflected the period''s educational and cultural values. This book contains chapters that range from Shakespeare and Ben Jonson to the contemporary plays of Tom Stoppard, and that explore childhood in relation to classical humanism, medicine, art, and psychology, revealing how early modern performance and educational practices produced attitudes to childhood that still resonate to this day.Trade Review'Childhood, Education, and the Stage in Early Modern England, edited by Richard Preiss and Deanne Williams, was one of the best collections of essays I read this year, drawing on recent critical interest in children's literature, and in the cultural history of children more broadly, to write new chapters on the theatrical history of the period, to redirect attention to the place of education in early modern society, and in this way to illuminate the complex thematic place that children occupy in the dramatic imagination of Shakespeare and his contemporaries.' SEL Studies in English Literature 1500-1900'This volume makes a valuable contribution to the field of early modern childhood studies generally, and Renaissance drama more specifically, and paves the way for further work.' Katie Knowles, The Review of English Studies'… a rounded, impressively researched picture of children's varying roles in the realities and imaginaries of the period, shining a welcome light into several unchecked corners of this increasingly crowded field. Taken either separately or as a whole, the contributors pave the way for countless areas of future scholarly endeavour, establishing new directions and initiating conversations which, like the early modern children on whom they centre, are filled to the brim with exciting potential.' Harry R. McCarthy, Early Theatre'The diversity of perspectives gives the volume multiple points of entry, which should appeal to readers from different disciplinary backgrounds. Students interested in the history of childhood in the early modern period, as well as those interested in the history of performing children more directly, will find much to admire here.' Marlis Schweitzer, Childhood in the Past'[This] wonderful edited collection brings together three major discourses - childhood, education, and theater - to demonstrate how these concepts 'grew up together in the early modern period' and to provide a 'new view of the literary and the social meaning of the young in early modern England'.' Edel Lamb, Renaissance Quarterly'The essays in the volume are consistently excellent. Each is learned, meticulous, and original, making the volume as a whole a substantial contribution to scholarship, and individual essays offer valuable interventions in a range of fields including Shakespeare, Milton, and Marvell studies, and the history of the theater. … scholars with many different preoccupations will find it repays their attention.' Elizabeth Hanson, Journal of the History of Childhood and YouthTable of ContentsPart I. Shakespearean Childhoods: 1. Hamlet's boyhood Seth Lerer; 2. The traffic in children: shipwrecked Shakespeare, precarious Pericles Joseph Campana; 3. Incapable and shallow innocents: mourning Shakespeare's children in Richard III and The Winter's Tale Charlotte Scott; Part II. Beyond the Boy Actor: 4. Speaking like a child: staging children's speech in early modern drama Lucy Munro; 5. Shakespeare versus Blackfriars: satiric comedy, domestic tragedy, and the boy actor in Othello Bart Van Es; 6. Cupid's metamorphosis: John Lyly's Love's Metamorphosis and the return of the children's playing companies Bastian Kuhl; Part III. Girls and Boys: 7. The further adventures of Ganymede Stephen Orgel; 8. Chastity, speech, and the girl masquer Deanne Williams; 9. Milton and female perspiration Douglas Trevor; Part IV. Afterlives: 10. 'Too green/yet for lust, but not for love': Andrew Marvell and the invention of children's literature Blaine Greteman; 11. All Macbeth's sons James J. Marino; 12. Modern retrospectives: childhood and education in Tom Stoppard's Shakespearean plays Elizabeth Pentland.
£22.99
Cambridge University Press Travel and Drama in Early Modern England
Book SynopsisThis agenda-setting volume on travel and drama in early modern England provides new insights into Renaissance stage practice, performance history, and theatre''s transnational exchanges. It advances our understanding of theatre history, drama''s generic conventions, and what constitutes plays about travel at a time when the professional theatre was rapidly developing and England was attempting to announce its presence within a global economy. Recent critical studies have shown that the reach of early modern travel was global in scope, and its cultural consequences more important than narratives that are dominated by the Atlantic world suggest. This collection of essays by world-leading scholars redefines the field by expanding the canon of recognized plays concerned with travel. Re-assessing the parameters of the genre, the chapters offer fresh perspectives on how these plays communicated with their audiences and readers.Trade Review'Travel and Drama in Early Modern England manages to be at once unified and multifocal.' Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley, Notes and Queries'… this important volume presents a broad discussion about travel on the early modern stage, fittingly for a subject that evoked such different emotions and was an emblem for so many different things.' Cecilia Lindskog Whiteley, Notes and Queries'Travel and Drama in Early Modern England adds significantly to ongoing conversations on travel and its dramatic afterlives during the age of exploration.' Amrita Sen, Renaissance Quarterly'This fascinating collection offers an insightful analysis of the uses and representations of travel on the early modern stage.' Jennifer Cryar, The Year's Work in English StudiesTable of ContentsIntroduction: understanding the early modern journeying play Claire Jowitt and David McInnis; 1. 'For his travailes let the Globe witnesse': venturing on the stage in early modern England Anthony Parr; 2. Seeing and overseeing the stage as map in Early Modern drama Ladan Niayesh; 3. Marlowe's Mediterranean and counter-epic forms of oceanic hybridity Steve Mentz; 4. Making the land known: Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2 and the literature of perambulation Julie Sanders; 5. Eastward Ho and the traffic of the stage Andrew Gordon; 6. Language and seafaring in Thomas Middleton and John Webster's Anything for a Quiet Life Marianne Montgomery; 7. Rogue cosmopolitans on the Early Modern stage: John Ward, Thomas Stukeley, and the Sherley brothers Daniel Vitkus; 8. Drama at sea: a new look at Shakespeare on the Dragon, 1607–8 Richmond Barbour and Bernhard Klein; 9. Strange bedfellows: the ordinary undersides of 'a true reportory' and The Tempest Emily C. Bartels; 10. Travelling characters in early modern drama David McInnis; 11. 'Constant changelings', theatrical form, and migration: stage travel in the early 1620s Clare McManus; 12. The uses of cultural encounter in Sir William Davenant's Caroline-to-Restoration voyage drama Claire Jowitt.
£79.79
Cambridge University Press On the Site of the Globe Playhouse of Shakespeare
Book SynopsisOriginally published in 1923, this book addresses the old controversy regarding the exact location of the Globe Theatre. Through a wealth of evidence extracted from the records concerning Shakespeare's London, George Hubbard presents compelling evidence for placing the site of Shakespeare's playhouse to the north of Maiden Lane.Table of ContentsPreface; On the site of the Globe Playhouse of Shakespeare, lying to the North of Maiden Lane, Bankside, Southwark.
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Penguin Books Ltd The Complete Pelican Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThis edition of Shakespeare's complete works aims to combine accessibility with scholarship. Each play or poetry collection has an introduction which includes textual and literary-historical issues and there are same-page notes for ease of reference.Trade Review"Here is an elegant and clear text for either study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them, and the distinguished scholarship of the general editors, A. R. Braunmuller and Stephen Orgel, who understand that these are plays for performance as wellas great texts for contemplation." —Patrick Stewart“The perfect companion to enjoy the most profound stories of the human condition that Shakespeare has given us and that I have had the privilege to perform, from Othello to King Lear. "—James Earl Jones “Orgel and Braunmuller’s editions of the Pelican Shakespeare are an indispensable part of my library. These introductions by great Shakespearean scholars are erudite yet accessible, and the individual editions of the plays are perfect for the rehearsal room. They combine scholastic precision with an inspiring energy that fuels everyone making Shakespeare live today.” —Simon Godwin, Shakespeare Theatre Company and the National Theatre“I have been using the Pelican Shakespeare for years in my lecture course–it’s invaluable.”—Marjorie Garber, Harvard University Table of ContentsEditorsAcknowledgmentsPublisher's NoteThe Opening Pages of the Folio of 1623The QuartosGeneral IntroductionThe Shakespearian Theater WorldWilliam Shakespeare of Stratford-upon-Avon, GentlemanThe Texts of ShakespeareA Comparative TableNondramatic PoetryThe Narrative Poems - edited by Jonathan Crewe:Venus and AdonisLucreceThe Phoenix and the TurtleThe Passionate PilgrimA Lover's ComplaintThe Sonnets - edited by Stephen Orgel with an Introduction by John HollanderIndex of First Lines to The SonnetsComediesThe Two Gentlemen of Verona - edited by Mary Beth RoseThe Taming of the Shrew - edited by Stephen OrgelThe Comedy of Errors - edited by Frances E. DolanLove's Labor's Lost - edited by Peter HollandA Midsummer Night's Dream - edited by Russ McDonaldThe Merchant of Venice - edited by A.R. BraunmullerThe Merry Wives of Windsow - edited by Russ McDonaldMuch Ado About Nothing - edited by Peter HollandAs You Like It - edited by Frances E. DolanTwelfth Night, or, What You Will - edited by Jonathan CreweThe History of Troilus and Cressida - edited by Jonathan CreweMeasure for Measure - edited by Jonathan CreweAll's Well That Ends Well - edited by Claire McEachernPericles Prince of Tyre - edited by Stephen OrgelCymbeline - edited by Peter HollandThe Winter's Tale - edited by Frances E. DolanThe Tempest - edited by Peter HollandHistoriesGenealogical ChartMonarchs of EnglandThe First Part of Henry the Sixth - edited by William Montgomery with an Introduction by Janis LullThe Second Part of Henry the Sixth - edited by William Montgomery with an Introduction by Janis LullThe Third Part of Henry the Sixth - edited by William Montgomery with an Introduction by Janis LullThe Tragedy of King Richard the Third - edited by Peter HollandThe Tragedy of King Richard the Second - edited by Frances E. DolanThe Life and Death of King John - edited by Claire McEachernThe First Part of King Henry the Fourth - edited by Claire McEachernThe Second Part of King Henry the Fourth - edited by Claire McEachernThe Life of King Henry the Fifth - edited by Claire McEachernThe Life of King Henry the Eighth - edited by Jonathan CreweTragediesTitus Andronicus - edited by Russ McDonaldRomeo and Juliet - edited by Peter HollandThe Tragedy of Julius Caesar - edited by William Montgomery with an Introduction by Douglas TrevorThe Tragical History of Hamlet Prince of Denmark - edited by A.R. BraunmullerThe Tragedy of Othello the Moor of Venice - edited by Russ McDonaldThe Life of Timon of Athens - edited by Frances E. DolanKing Lear: The 1608 Quarto and 1623 Folio Texts - edited by Stephen OrgelKing Lear: A Conflated Text - edited by Stephen OrgelMacbeth - edited by Stephen OrgelAntony and Cleopatra - edited by A.R. BraunmullerThe Tragedy of Coriolanus - edited by Jonathan CreweIndex of Songs
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Penguin Putnam Inc Henry V
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Gorgeous new Shakespeare paperbacks.” —Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings“I have been using the Pelican Shakespeare for years in my lecture course--it's invaluable, the best individual-volume series available for students.”—Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
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Penguin Putnam Inc Richard III
Book SynopsisTrade Review“Gorgeous new Shakespeare paperbacks.” —Marlon James, author of A Brief History of Seven Killings“I have been using the Pelican Shakespeare for years in my lecture course--it's invaluable, the best individual-volume series available for students.”—Marjorie Garber, William R. Kenan, Jr. Professor of English and Visual and Environmental Studies, Harvard University
£9.50
Oxford University Press The Winters Tale The Oxford Shakespeare
Book SynopsisTrade Reviewa valuable edition of The Winter's Tale. ... this is a well-focused and helpful edition. * Paul Hammond, Review of English Studies *
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Love Poems Sonnets of William Shakespeare
Book SynopsisThe greatest sonnets ever written, by the greatest poet and playwright in the English language
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WW Norton & Co The Norton Shakespeare
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WW Norton & Co The Norton Shakespeare
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WW Norton & Co The Norton Shakespeare
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Random House USA Inc Romeo and Juliet and West Side Story
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Penguin Random House Group Pericles Cymbeline And The Two Noble Kinsmen
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The University of Michigan Press Class Critics and Shakespeare
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Four Tragedies
Book SynopsisHamletOne of the most famous plays of all time, the compelling tragedy of the young prince of Denmark who must reconcile his longing for oblivion with his duty to avenge his father’s murder is one of Shakespeare’s greatest works. The ghost, Ophelia’s death and burial, the play within a play, and the breathtaking swordplay are just some of the elements that make Hamlet a masterpiece of the theater.OthelloThis great tragedy of unsurpassed intensity and emotion is played out against Renaissance splendor. The doomed marriage of Desdemona to the Moor Othello is the focus of a storm of tension, incited by the consummately evil villain Iago, that culminates in one of the most deeply moving scenes in theatrical history.King LearHere is the famous and moving tragedy of a king who foolishly divides his kingdom between his two wicked daughters and estranges himself from the young daughter who loves him-a theatrical spectacle of ou
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc Antony and Cleopatra
Book SynopsisA magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare''s greatest female characters—the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The Roman leader Mark Antony, a virtual prisoner of his passion for her, is a man torn between pleasure and virtue, between sensual indolence and duty . . . between an empire and love. Bold, rich, and splendid in its setting and emotions, Antony And Cleopatra ranks among Shakespeare''s supreme achievements.
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Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc A Midsummer Nights Dream
Book SynopsisMagic, love spells, and an enchanted wood provide the materials for one of Shakespeare’s most delightful comedies. When four young lovers, fleeing the Athenian law and their own mismatched rivalries, take to the forest of Athens, their lives become entangled with a feud between the King and Queen of the Fairies. Some Athenian tradesmen, rehearsing a play for the forthcoming wedding of Duke Theseus and his bride, Hippolyta, unintentionally add to the hilarity. The result is a marvelous mix-up of desire and enchantment, merriment and farce, all touched by Shakespeare’s inimitable vision of the intriguing relationship between art and life, dreams and the waking world.Each Edition Includes:• Comprehensive explanatory notes • Vivid introductions and the most up-to-date scholarship • Clear, modernized spelling and punctuation, enabling contemporary readers to understand the Elizabethan English• Completely updated, detailed bibliogra
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Turtleback Books Othello No Fear Shakespeare Sparknotes No Fear
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Random House USA Inc Comedies Volume 1
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Random House USA Inc Comedies Volume 2 Everymans Library Classics
Book SynopsisShakespeare’s later comedies were written at the astonishing pace of about two plays a year. In them, he moves beyond the farce of his earlier comedies to richer and more varied dramas. These range from the famous “problem plays,” which blend humor with tragedy, to the idyllic romances set in such timeless locales as the Forest of Arden. They contain some of his wittiest and most memorable characters, from cross-dressing heroines, bantering lovers, and wisecracking fools to the villainous but sympathetic Shylock and the boisterous and bawdy Falstaff. This volume contains The Merchant of Venice, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Much Ado About Nothing, As You Like It, Twelfth Night, All’s Well That Ends Well, and Measure for Measure. The authoritatively edited text of the plays is supplemented with footnotes, bibliographies, a detailed chronology of Shakespeare’s life and times, and a substant
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The British Library Publishing Division The Bard in Brief Shakespeare in Quotations
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Random House USA Inc A Midsummer Nights Dream
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Random House USA Inc Othello
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Random House USA Inc Macbeth Modern Library Classics Paperback
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Random House USA Inc Much Ado about Nothing
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Random House USA Inc The Merchant of Venice Modern Library Classics
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Random House USA Inc Pericles Modern Library Classics
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MJ - Ohio University Press Directing Shakespeare
Book SynopsisAn impossible question from a Chinese actor—“Why is Shakespeare eternal?”—drove Sidney Homan after fifty years in the theater to ponder just what makes Shakespeare…well, Shakespeare.Trade ReviewSidney Homan has the unusual gift for a literary critic of being a good story-teller, and so the moments of rehearsing and trying to find how a complicated text can work on stage come through with vividness and point...Any Shakespearean and any intellectually curious actor or director would find substantial value and interest in Directing Shakespeare. * author of Shakespeare's History Plays *
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Kessinger Publishing The Tragedie of Romeo and Juliet
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Johns Hopkins University Press Persians Seven against Thebes and Suppliants
Book SynopsisIntended to be both read as literature and performed as plays, these translations are lucid and readable, while remaining staunchly faithful to the texts.Trade ReviewClassicists should enjoy the book, for... it did help this reader get closer than before to these perhaps underrated plays. The book has a good introduction and notes. -- Allistair ELliot Translation and LiteratureTable of ContentsIntroductionPersiansSeven against ThebesSuppliantsNotesWorks Cited
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Johns Hopkins University Press Persians Seven against Thebes and Suppliants
Book SynopsisIntended to be both read as literature and performed as plays, these translations are lucid and readable, while remaining staunchly faithful to the texts.Trade ReviewClassicists should enjoy the book, for... it did help this reader get closer than before to these perhaps underrated plays. The book has a good introduction and notes. -- Allistair ELliot Translation and LiteratureTable of ContentsIntroductionPersiansSeven against ThebesSuppliantsNotesWorks Cited
£29.91
