Greek Roman category: 1023 books

La straordinaria inventiva di Plauto in qualsiasi settore del comico, sia verbale che di situazioni e personaggi, gli permette di rappresentare una ricca galleria di figure da commedia dell’arte: il servo ribaldo e lo sciocco, il soldato spaccone, il sempliciotto vanaglorioso, l’avaro incallito e...

Dal momento che nella felice Italia in cui viviamo l'Eneide del Caro non la pubblica più nessuno, ci siamo decisi noi (con un'improntitudine degna di miglior causa) a ristampare un libro volta, in modo talmente originale da risultare quasi provocatorio: una striminzita silloge di pochi brani on demand...

Despite the growing critical relevance of Shakespeare's two Venetian plays and a burgeoning bibliography on both The Merchant of Venice and Othello, few books have dealt extensively with the relationship between Shakespeare and Venice. Setting out to offer new perspectives to a traditional topic,...

Extrait : "TORRIBIO, aux Fossoyeurs : Allez ! il n'est plus besoin de vous ici ; mais, comme il ne doit pas être dit que ceux qui ont creusé la fosse du plus brave capitaine qui ait jamais existé de Pempelune à Grenade et de Cadix à Saragosse, n'ont pas été largement récompensés, voici mille...

Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis Unique trilogie d’Eschyle (env. 525-456 av. J.-C.) à nous être parvenue dans son intégralité, L’Orestie est composée d’Agamemnon, des Choéphores et des Euménides, soit les trois temps du crime, de la vengeance et...

Aristophanes and Women, first published in 1993, investigates the workings of the great Athenian comedian’s ‘women plays’ in an attempt to discern why they were in fact probably quite funny to their original audiences. It is argued that modern students, scholars, and dramatists need to consider...

Based on 20 previously untranslated fragments, this is a reconstruction of Euripides lost tragic comedy, Alcmaeon in Corinth, the third part of his final trilogy, with Bacchai and Iphigeneia in Aulis. Alcmaeon, having killed his mother, is pursued by the furies, his madness taking the form of satyriasis....

UNSTABLE delves into the depths of a sub-conscious exploration where multiple metaphoric connotations become probable. Conflicting forces and divergent ideologies clash and rational reasoning is defied. The Award winning Play dares to take its readers through an uncharted harrowing path of Love that leads nowhere.

Dieses eBook: "Die Gleichen" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen. Achim von Arnim (1781/1831) war ein deutscher Schriftsteller. Neben Clemens Brentano und Joseph von Eichendorff gilt er als wichtigster Vertreter der...

LICENTIA, land of women and wine. Where men willingly serve their women and Juno rules over all. DIANA, huntress supreme. Kills boars with her bare hands and waits for her lover on the eve of her deflowering. ACTAEON, banished sailor. Determined to win Diana’s love and stay at...

Although scholars have long considered the material conditions surrounding the production of early modern drama, until now, no book-length examination has sought to explain what was worn on the period's stages and, more importantly, how articles of apparel were understood when seen by contemporary...

Many modern female writers are famous for their voluptuous style; their ungratified sex is expressed in such erotic art activity. The nun Hroswitha of Gandersheim (C. 940—1002) was the first known woman dramatist in German literature, and she launched the form with aplomb.

There is no gainsaying that evil is very much on the prowl on earth today. It is as though human beings have just ‘discovered’ an extra-ordinary aphrodisiac or opium from doing and inducing evil. Examples abound in various parts of the world to suggest that mankind appear to be more fiendish now...

Extrait : "PAUL. Au lever du rideau, il entre par la porte du fond, et il répond à un domestique qu'on ne voit pas, du ton d'un homme préoccupé, et désireux d'être laissé à ses reflexions : Non; je vous remercie... ne faites pas prévenir Mademoiselle ; ne dérangez personne. Puisque Monsieur...