Greek Roman category: 1023 books

With its ribald chorus of ithyphallic, half-man / half-horse creatures, satyr drama was a peculiar part of the Athenian theatrical experience. Performed three times each year after a trilogy of tragedies, it was an integral part of the 5th- and 4th-century City Dionysia, a large festival in honour...

In 2002, the Records of Early English Drama (REED) project marked its twenty-fifth anniversary with a special series of sessions at the International Medieval Congress at Leeds University. The REED sessions were designed to allow critical reflection on the past, present, and future of the project...

Mitreißend lebendig erzählt Michael Köhlmeier elf Dramen von William Shakespeare nach – beginnend mit "Macbeth", der blutigen Tragödie der Einbildungskraft, über "Ein Sommernachtstraum", das schönste Zaubermärchen der Weltliteratur, und "Othello", die Schule...

Bis vor kurzem dachte man, die von Karl Simrock rekonstruierte Fassung des Puppenspiels um Dr. Faust würde dem nahekommen, was Goethe als Kind so tief beeindruckt hatte – bis Gerd Eversberg in Weimar Originalmanuskripte aus der Hand des Marionettenspielers Johann Georg Geißelbrecht fand. Und da...

Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE–65 CE). The two volumes of The Complete Tragedies...

Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE–65 CE). The two volumes of The Complete Tragedies...

Making a unique intervention in an incipient but powerful resurgence of academic interest in character-based approaches to Shakespeare, this book brings scholars and theatre practitioners together to rethink why and how character continues to matter. Contributors seek in particular to expand our notions...

Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca's play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy. Hercules returns from his final labor, his journey to the Underworld, and then slaughters his family in an episode of madness. This play exerted...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Rares sont les œuvres, créées dans la Grèce classique, qui aient connu une postérité semblable à celle d’Antigone et un foisonnement aussi vigoureux d’adaptations que celui suscité par la pièce la plus célèbre...

La tendenza di Seneca a una scrittura mossa, anticlassica, se già caratterizza le sue pagine di prosa, raggiunge il culmine nelle tragedie: in esse lo stile drammatico «dell'anima umana che è in guerra con se stessa» si plasma a esprimere le passioni dei personaggi, le loro intime lacerazioni,...

Après le succès de La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu, l'idée vient à Giraudoux en 1935 ou 1936 d'«épousseter» le mythe d'Électre que Claudel avait remis dans l'air du temps en traduisant l'Agamemnon d'Eschyle. Les trois grands tragiques grecs, Eschyle, Sophocle et Euripide, ont en effet mis...

Après Elpénor (1919), où il récrivait à sa façon l'Odyssée, Giraudoux tire cette fois son sujet de l'Iliade, poème épique d'Homère qui chante les combats héroïques du siège de Troie. Le prétexte...

La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu est une pièce de théâtre de Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), jouée la première fois le 22 novembre 1935 au Théâtre de l'Athénée sous la direction et avec Louis Jouvet.   Ce livre comporte une table des...

New English versions of Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and Ladies' Day. "Thanks to Dudley Fitts...we can appreciate Aristophanes' vigor, his robust style, his scorching wit, his earthy humor, his devotion to honesty and his poetic imagination" (Brooks Atkinson, New York Times). Index.