Greek Roman category: 1023 books

L’Orestea, scrive Ezio Savino nella sua nota storica, è «un indimenticabile pezzo di maestria teatrale». Il fasto architettonico della scena e la sua ricchezza di suggestioni; il saggio impiego dell’ambiguità, in un dramma di nascosti rancori e sospirate vendette; la lingua poetica che non...

Virgil was born to a farming family, and his poetic work named The Georgics comes as close to his heart as it possibly can. He dedicated this work to the land, the farming communities and the issues surrounding complex relationships and political situation of the time. Virgil's love for the earth and everything that grows and lives there makes this poem one of his most expressive and passionate.

'L’Avare (1666) is Molière’s great satire on materialism, a funny yet sophisticated story of cunning, guile and double-dealing, not only by the Miser himself, but also by the Miser’s family and servants. First performed at the Festival Theatre, Chichester in 1995, it was revived at the Salisbury...

In Stagecraft in Euripides, first published in 1985, Professor Michael Halleran examines certain aspects of the dramaturgy of the most extensively preserved Attic tragedian. Although the ancient dramatic texts do not contain performance directions, they do imply stage actions. This work explores...

Magical Transformations on the Early Modern Stage furthers the debate about the cultural work performed by representations of magic on the early modern English stage. It considers the ways in which performances of magic reflect and feed into a sense of national identity, both in the form of magic...

Sophocles: The Classical Heritage, first published in 1996, contains a diverse collection of reflection, ranging from the 16th century to the 20th, on one of the three great Attic tragedians, the author of perhaps the most famous play of all time. With the entire notion of ‘Western culture’...

We often find in a family a jewellery of "high value" passing from one generation to another. But in a mansion of beautiful Athens, a gift of inestimable cost will cause much anguish to its owner, a wealthy Athenian trader. A jewellery of diamonds can hide dark secrets, and they are not always put auspiciously...

A lovely and fascinating Novel of the Love affair between two individuals which explores the life and difficulty of women in many cultures.  When Marjan and Russ meet, desire surges through of them. In spite of all the obstacle between them and the fact that this love could cost their lives.  209 pages.

The Clouds is a comedy written by the celebrated playwright Aristophanes lampooning intellectual fashions in classical Athens. It was originally produced at the City Dionysia in 423 BC and it was not well received, coming last of the three plays competing at the festival that year. It was revised...

Read the Cyberpunk Fairy Tales, a unique twist on the classic stories you grew up with. Sometimes dark and disturbing like the Grimm stories, other times new and relevant to the modern age. This is Volume 1, containing: The Impossible Quest of Hailing a Taxi on Christmas Eve. A modern...

William Dean Howells (1837-1920) was an American realist author and literary critic. He wrote his first novel, Their Wedding Journey, in 1871, but his literary reputation really took off with the realist novel A Modern Instance, published in 1882, which describes the decay of a marriage. His 1885...

Do you have a theatre group that wants to do an epic melodrama, with equal parts comedy and terror? Here it is!The ages-old tale of the dwarf who changes straw into gold in exchange for the heroine’s first-born is created anew in this highly entertaining epic melodrama. Successfully and elaborately...

Their world destroyed by Human Evil, the Violet River saves the remaining millions and transports them to a new home. Frustrations between Faerie and Sprite, never far from the surface, erupt once more, just when unity is most needed. The Super-Changed try to settle into life, bearing...

Pregio di Plauto è la sua prodigiosa ricchezza linguistica: i giochi di parole, le assonanze, i doppi sensi; le espressioni che spaziano dall’arcaico al neologismo, dalle deformazioni grottesche a volgarità che oggi si direbbero surreali; la magistrale padronanza delle possibilità musicali della...