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Selected Plays of Guan Hanqing
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I just love the Longing for Worldy Pleasures play. It's a historic 17th century K'unshan drama with religious/erotic themes. Very modern and dramatically interesting. BTW, I've heard rumors this is available as a mobipocket ebook from Silk Pagoda, which would be cool. This is a small book. ... »
The Bacchae of Euripides: A New Version
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While I haven't read much Greek tragedy, and this is my first Euripides play, the Bacchae is the most aweful I've yet to read. The fury of a god spurned by his family and city had me entranced in awe. I still can't quite understand it. I just had to be still and let its terrible beauty wash over me -- to experience it. I imagine that the audience at it... »
Frogs and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
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Comedy is notoriously difficult to translate--not only do some cultures have entirely different senses of humor, the word-play and deft cultural allusions that make good comedy are often untranslatable. Against these odds, translator David Barrett has successfully brought Aristophanes into modern English with all his wit, sarcasm, and sly digs at well-... »
Prometheus Bound (Greek Tragedy in New Translat
I always find the prospect of reading ancient literature daunting, but this play was very easy to understand. I would definitely recommend this as a suppl... »
The Jew of Malta (Dover Thrift Editions)
Similar to Shakespeare's commercial epicenter, Venice, Malta bubbles with the primordial ooze of modern business. As David Thurn says, "The Jew of Malta ... »
Three Plays by Aristophanes: Staging Women (The
Let me start by saying that this book has the best translations of Aristophanes that I've ever read. Henderson's translations contain really obscene lang... »
Sophocles: The Theban Plays: Antigone/King Oidi
As described the book was in perfect order, no cover wear, no page wear, marks or rips. Thanks!... »
Bacchae
I doubt anyone will go so far as to shell out $65.00 and find out the hard way, but this spectacular book: 1986 2nd ed. English Book ... »
Classical Tragedy - Greek and Roman: Eight Play
Robert Corrigan has put together an amazing collection of classical plays. The translations are modern without losing the savvy and content of their origi... »
The Oresteian Trilogy: Agamemnon; The Choephori
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... »
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