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Aeschylus - Plays II - The Oresteia; Agamemnon; the Libation-Bearers; the Eumenides by Aeschylus; Frederic Raphael (Translator); Kenneth McLeish (Translator); J. Michael Walton (Editor); Stephen Raphael
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Classical Dramatists Ser.
'Four of Aeschylus'' greatest plays reissued in the new Classical Greek Dramatists series. Includes the Oresteia trilogy, a key sequence of plays within the Western dramatic tradition - widely studied in schools and universities. Agamemnon tells the tale of the king''s return from the battle of Troyto f ...Show more
Euripides - Plays 1 - Medea; the Phoenician Women; Bacchae by Eurípides; David Thompson (Translator); J. Michael Walton (Introduction by, Translator, Editor)
Category: Classics | Series: Classical Dramatists Ser.
'Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series. Always controversial, Euripides'' plays are now celebrated for the subtlety of their characterisation and their unorthodox dramatic style. This volume contains three of his finest tragedies- Medea, the abandoned wife, who murders her own childre ...Show more
Euripides Plays 3 - Alkestis, Helen, Ion by Ed J Michael
Category: No Category | Series: Classical Dramatists Ser.
'Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series. The three plays in this volume straddle the borders between comedy and tragedy. Alkestis is a moving romance with death; it has parallels to Shakespeare''s The Winter''s Tale. Helen, an alternative version of the tragic portrayal of the Trojan W ...Show more
Euripides - Plays 4 - Elektra; Orestes; Iphigeneia in Tauris by Kenneth McLeish; Eurípides; J. Michael Walton (Introduction by)
Category: No Category | Series: Classical Dramatists Ser.
'Euripides, the Athenian playwright who dared to question the whims of wanton gods, has always been the most intriguing of the Greek tragedians. Now, with translations aimed at the stage rather than the page, his restless intellect strikes the chord This volume contains some of Euripides'' most famous w ...Show more
Euripides - Plays 5 - Andromache; Herakles' Children; Herakles by J. Michael Walton (Introduction by); Kenneth McLeish (Translator); Eurípides; Robert Cannon (Translator)
Category: No Category | Series: Classical Dramatists Ser.
'Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series. Written at the height of the Peloponnesian War, the three plays in this volume highlight the trivial causes and dire consequences of war and the fate of the innocent. In Andromache, Hektor''s widow struggles to survive as the concubine of her hu ...Show more
Euripides - Plays 6 - Hippolytos; Suppliants and Rhesos by J. Michael Walton (Translator); Kenneth McLeish (Translator); Frederic Raphael (Translator); Eurípides; Stephen Raphael
Category: No Category | Series: Classical Dramatists Ser.
'Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series. A dramatist whose trademark was the unexpected, Euripides has constantly challenged and intrigued audiences, from Athens of the fifth century BC to the present. The three plays in this volume demonstrate Euripides'' versatility. Hippolytos (whic ...Show more
Euripides Plays: v.2: "Cyclops", "Hecuba", "Iphigenia in Aulis "and "Trojan Women" by Euripides
Category: Non-Fiction | Series: Classical Dramatists
Published in the new Methuen Classical Dramatists series Euripides' searching, poetic voice probes the waste and suffering of war in these plays which are set wake of the Trojan defeat to reflect the playwright's changing attitude to the real war between Athens and Sparta in his own day - 4th century BC ...Show more
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