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Queen Mab; A Philosophical Poem; With Notes, published in 1813 in nine cantos with seventeen notes, is the first large poetic work written by Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822), the English Romantic poet. This poem was written early in Shelley's career and serves as a foundation to his theory of revolution....

Plaute - Comédies Ce livre numérique présente une collection des oeuvres majeures de Plaute éditées en texte intégral. Une table des matières dynamique permet d'accéder directement aux différentes oeuvres. Liste des...

Aristófanes es un autor de comedias griego del siglo V a.C. En su obra critica mordazmente a la sociedad de su época. Muchas veces utiliza a las mujeres para llevar a cabo estos ataques ofreciéndonos una interesante perspectiva de su vida en este período. Aparte de su aguda crítica resulta especialmente...

Obra presentada durante el concurso de las fiestas Leneas en el 422 a. C., donde obtuvo el primer premio, por delante de "Proagón", de Filónides y "Embajadores", de Leucón. Debe su nombre a la identificación del coro, formado por miembros de los tribunales atenienses, con avispas...

“Pluto”, la última comedia escrita por el autor ateniense Aristófanes, supone una crítica feroz a la situación vivida en la Atenas del siglo IV a.C., la cual podemos conocer con la lectura de esta obra. Crémilo, un pobre pero honrado agricultor ateniense, se encuentra con Pluto, la personificación...

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to recreate the life of ancient Athens more convincingly than any other author.

Sophocles' play, first staged in the fifth century B.C., stands as a timely exploration of the conflict between those who affirm the individual's human rights and those who must protect the state's security. During the War of the Seven Against Thebes, Antigone, the daughter of Oedipus, learns that...

Award-winning poet and playwright Robert Bagg offers a set of exciting and authentic new translations of Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Kolonos, and Antigone—together known as The Oedipus Cycle. One of the unquestionable acmes of world literature, Sophocles’s immortal series of plays centers upon...

Sophocles addresses themes of civil disobedience, fidelity, and love for family; and questions which law is greater: the gods' or man's—in this play that challenged many established mores of Ancient Greece.

When Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone's unruly brother, Antigone's anger quickly turns to defiance. Creon condemns her to a torturous death: she's to be buried alive. Acclaimed playwright Roy Williams takes Sophocles' play and, by placing it into a contemporary setting, brings this...

The winner of the Festival of Dionysus in 409 BC, 'Philoctetes' describes the attempt by Neoptolemus and Odysseus to bring disabled master archer, Philoctetes, with them to Troy. The play covers several deep, contentious themes, including moral relativity, trauma, love vs. hatred, and friendship vs. enmity.

Set in the city of Argos a few years after the Trojan war, 'Electra' recounts the tale of Electra and the vengeance that she and her brother Orestes take on their mother Clytemnestra and step father Aegisthus for the murder of their father, Agamemnon.

Sophocles' play is a famous retelling of Aias's (Ajax's) demise. After the armor is awarded to Odysseus, Aias feels so insulted that he wants to kill Agamemnon and Menelaus. Athena intervenes and clouds his mind and vision, and he goes to a flock of sheep and slaughters them, imagining they are the...

The Tragedies of Sophocles contains classics such as Oedipus and Antigone, translated into English in 1917.