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The Tempest (Folger Shakespeare Library)
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One of Shakespeare's most beloved works, The Tempest is a classic tale of adventure that combines revenge drama, romance, and comedy, all of it driven by magic and the supernatural. The play also uses manifold references to ancient myth to develop its sense of seabound peril, while drawing brilliant parallels to the colonial impulse that was then rapid... »
The Three Theban Plays (Penguin Classics)
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Aristotle called "Oedipus The King," the second-written of the three Theban plays written by Sophocles, the masterpiece of the whole of Greek theater. Today, nearly 2,500 years after Sophocles wrote, scholars and audiences still consider it one of the most powerful dramatic works ever made. Freud sure did. The three plays--"Antigone," "Oedipus the King... »
Sophocles I: Oedipus The King, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (The Complete Greek Tragedies)
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I generally do not review classics, because I find it impossible to adequately review a genuine classic with the necessary brevity. However, I plan on giving my opinion at some point on books with conflicting Amazon reviews, and it occured to me that readers ought to have a touchstone by which to assess my credibility. There are two types of books wh... »
Aeschylus I: Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) is the father of Greek tragedies (one legend reports that Dionysus himself commanded Aeschylus to write them). Of the seventy trage... »
The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers;
i first came across these stories when I was 14, i read them again in collage and have read them ever since. the Oresteia is essential literature, if noth... »
Sophocles, The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedi
This version of Sophocles's Oedipus trilogy--Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone--is a great edition for students and seasoned classicists alike... »
Twelfth Night (Folger Shakespeare Library)
Twelfth Night is a very amazing book full of true love, confusion, and adventure. It starts out with a shipwreck on a fictious island of Illyria where Vi... »
All My Sons (Penguin Classics)
I have noted in a review of Death of A Salesman that Arthur Miller had a good ear for the foibles and traumas besetting the ordinary people of the old mid... »
Sophocles II: Ajax, The Women of Trachis, Elect
When I entered college, I was surprised to hear that there were so few Greek tragedies extent in the world today. I was also surprised that Sophocles act... »
Euripides I: Alcestis, The Medea, The Heracleid
This is a review for three of Euripides' plays - "Medea", "Hippolytus" and "The Bacchae". If you are interested in Greek tragedy, you must read some of E... »
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