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All My Sons (Penguin Classics)
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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 middle class, here upper middle class, put up against the wall in a world that was dramatically changing after World War II. The difference between success and failure is sometimes very close. As we know... »
Antigone
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I read Sophocles Antigone for graduate Humanities class. It is an essential reading to understand Greek Tragedy. It is also a foundation stone of literature in studying Western Civilization. Antigone, daughter of Oedipus in 3-cycle play, faces capital punishment for burying her brother who rebelled against Thebes. Obeying instincts of l... »
Four Plays by Aristophanes: The Birds; The Clouds; The Frogs; Lysistrata (Meridian Classics)
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Roche's Signet Classic "Four Plays by Aristophanes" provides good contemporary translations of Lysistrata, The Frogs, A Parliament of Women, and Plutus. On the negative side, the renderings are not terrifically inspired. The paper is too pulpy for a "classic," but that's a drawback of most (though not all) inexpensive classics nowadays. My printing o... »
Greek Tragedies, Volume 1 (Greek Tragedies)
There's no reason why these plays need to be randomly strewn throughout three different volumes. For example, why would someone split up Sophocles' Oedip... »
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 V: Electra, The Phoenician Women, The
The three plays presented in "Euripides V" are all important works: Electra, The Phoenician Women, and The Bacchae. The editors are David Gre... »
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays: Prometheus Bo
Ok, missed these in college, but I think you have to read these, and quite frankly, they're a little better with some age on you. Prometheus Bound is mor... »
Oresteia
I worked on the production of this translation at The University of South Carolina in 1998. I designed the costumes and masks. Before I began the design... »
Oedipus Rex (Dover Thrift Editions)
This Epic was referred by my professor. Although some parts of the epic confused me I really enjoyed it. Very interesting. ... »
The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays (Oxf
Would've given this product a good review were it not for the loud, tacky stickers affixed prominently on front cover, back cover, and spine. I believe th... »
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