The Tenth Muse - Classical Drama in translation
Charles Doria - ed
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Plays by Nation - Greek and Roman Plays
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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Cavafy - Complete poems
Cavafy - intro W. H. Auden trans Rae Dalven
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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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Comedies of Terence
Terence trans Echard with foreward by Robert Graves
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Includes The Fair Andrian & The Mother-in-Law & The Self Tormentor & The Eunch & The Tricks of Phomio & The Brothers -
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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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Alcestis
Euripides trans William Arrowsmith
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Hippolytos
Euripides
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A new translation by Robert Bagg
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Euripides' Alcestis - A new version
Ted Hughes
Faber & Faber
"Alcestis" is the tale of a queen sacrificing herself so her husband may live. Ted Hughes' classical translation was his final work, completed just before he died. As with his other works, it goes beyond its...
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Elektra - HARDBACK
Ezra Pound & Rudd Fleming from Sophocles
Faber & Faber
A translation of "Elektra" undertaken by Ezra Pound when he was confined to St Elizabeth's hospital in Washington under indictment for treason It includes a critical apparatus of variants and notes The tex...
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Iphigenia in Taurus
Euripides trans Richmond Lattimore
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Plautus - The Rope and Other Plays
Plautus trans E.F. Watling
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The Swaggering Soldier & The Prisoners & Brothers Meanaechmus & Pseudolus
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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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Oedipus - Audio production performed by Michael Sheen & John Moffatt & Heathcote Williams & Adam Kotz & Full Cast - 2 CDs
Sophocles
Naxos AudioBooks
This fully dramatised new translation of the great classic of Ancient Greece tells the anguished tale of Oedpus, who having solved the riddle of the Sphinx and become King of Thebes, gradually realises t...
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Metamorphoses - A Play
Mary Zimmerman
Northwest University Press
This highly acclaimed play, based on Ovid's 15 volume work of tranformation myths, is constructed using both ancient and contemporary language by Chicago's own Mary Zimmerman Set in and around a large po...
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The Birds
Walter Kerr from Aristophanes
Dramatic Publishing
"The intention," Walter Kerr writes, "has been to make the play sound as it might have sounded to an average Athenian sitting in a popular comic theatre" As Kerr, describes the work: The Birds (414 B.C.)...
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Plautus - Rudens & Curculio & Casina
Plautus trans Christopher Stage
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Terence Comedies - Girl From Andros & The Self-Tormentor & The Eunuch & Phormio & The Mother-in-Law & The Brothers
Terence
Penguin
Terence's subtle plots and sensitive characterization have had a lasting influence on modern theatre In 'translating' Greek New Comedy into a different world, the Roman dramatist Terence (c.186-159 BC) gave ...
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