Greek Roman category: 1023 books

The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For...

LYSISTRATA is a classic Old Comedy set during the Peloponnesian War (431-404 BC).  Wearied by 20 years of war, Lysistrata persuades the women of Athens to withhold sexual favors from their husbands and lovers as a means of forcing them to negotiate peace with Sparta. Aristophanes (c.446 BC...

Writing at a time when Athens was undergoing a crisis in its social attitudes, Aristophanes was an eloquent opponent of the demagogue and the sophist. This collection includes Lysistrata, the hilariously bawdy anti-war fantasy; The Acharnians, a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta; and The Clouds, a satire on contemporary philosophy.

Having put his personal stamp on the contemporary theater, David Mamet now performs the supremely audacious feat of reinventing the theater of the past. He does so by telling his own ingenious and eerily moving version of the tragedy of Dr. Faustus. Mamet’s Faustus—like Marlowe’s and...

A bold new translation of Euripides’ shockingly modern classic work, from Forward Prize-winning poet, Robin Robertson, with a new introduction by bestselling and award-winning writer, critic and translator Daniel Mendelsohn. Thebes has been rocked by the arrival of Dionysus, the god of wine...

10 male, 5 female, 5 either cast! Free Royalty offer exended! There is no royalty fee for this play to be produced as a community theater or student production by a public or charter school before January 1, 2014. After January 1, 2014 – community theaters and school royalties are only $5 per performance....

El ministerio de Jesucristo está por concluir y la bestia se ha desatado... Lo que para algunos significa la salvación, para otros no será más que la condena al sufrimiento. Al centurión Lucio Quinto Vero, se le ha encomendado capturar a un revoltoso sedicioso de nombre Yeshua; junto...

Este ebook presenta "Edipo rey” con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Edipo rey es una tragedia griega de Sófocles, de fecha desconocida que pudo ser escrita en los años posteriores a 430 a. C. La obra nos presenta a Edipo en su momento de mayor esplendor, como rey de Tebas y esposo de Yocasta....

The famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall. A great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex, King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer...

This Halcyon Classics ebook contains the eleven extant comedies by the ancient Athenian playwright Aristophanes.  One of the foremost of the Old Comedy playwrights, Aristophanes penned at least thirty additional works which have not survived.  Includes an active table of contents for easy...

With its inspired counterpointing of Homeric and Caribbean themes, Derek Walcott's new play, commissioned by Britain's Royal Shakespeare Company, springs from the same imaginative sources as his epic poem Omeros. Episodes of the story of Odysseus' protracted wanderings from fallen Troy to his...

THE BIRDS differs markedly from all the other Comedies of Aristophanes which have come down to us in subject and general conception. It is just an extravaganza pure and simple--a graceful, whimsical theme chosen expressly for the sake of the opportunities it afforded of bright, amusing dialogue,...

Este ebook presenta "Antígona” con un sumario dinámico y detallado. Antígona (Ἀντιγόνη en griego) es el título de una tragedia de Sófocles, basada en el mito de Antígona y representada por primera vez en 442 a. C. Antígona, personaje principal de esta obra, es también sobrina...