Drama category: 27605 books
Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England
Spaces of Demonism, Divinity, and Drama
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2011
Bringing together recent scholarship on religion and the spatial imagination, Kristen Poole examines how changing religious beliefs and transforming conceptions of space were mutually informative in the decades around 1600. Supernatural Environments in Shakespeare's England explores a series of cultural...
Contemporary Irish Plays
Freefall; Forgotten; Drum Belly; Planet Belfast; Desolate Heaven; The Boys of Foley Street
Language: English
Release Date: January 29, 2015
Contemporary Irish Plays showcases the new drama that has emerged since 2008. Featuring a blend of established and emerging writers, the anthology shows how Irish writers are embracing new methods of theatre-making to explore exciting new themes – while also finding new ways to come to terms with...
by Paula Vogel
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: April 24, 2018
Newly published as a stand-alone edition, Vogel’s widely celebrated masterpiece How I Learned to Drive was the winner of the 1998 Pulitzer Prize for Drama, the Obie and Drama Desk Awards for Outstanding Play, and other honors. Known for its dark subject matter, the play examines the effects of child abuse on identity and the discovery of strength through trauma.
Urban Luxe Chronicles: Makaveli Bri
Urban Luxe Chronicles, #2
Language: English
Release Date: November 6, 2017
There is no easy way to reintroduce yourself to your family and friends after a near death experience followed by faking your death. Bri makes it look easy although she’s struggling tremendously through the process.
From creating a new identity to making attempts to form a new group of...
by Will Eno
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Language: English
Release Date: October 5, 2015
Mr. Eno has established himself as one of the most vital, distinctive voices in the American theater over the past decade. Once encountered, his style is not likely to be forgotten: Wryly humorous and deeply engaged in the odd kinks and quirks of language and its fuzzy relationship to meaning, his...
Euripides III
Heracles, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia among the Taurians, Ion
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Euripides III contains the plays “Heracles,” translated by William Arrowsmith; “The Trojan Women,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; “Iphigenia among the Taurians,” translated by Anne Carson; and “Ion,” translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts.
Sixty years ago, the...
Euripides IV
Helen, The Phoenician Women, Orestes
Language: English
Release Date: April 19, 2013
Euripides IV contains the plays “Helen,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; “The Phoenician Women,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and “Orestes,” translated by William Arrowsmith.
Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation...
Greek Tragedies 2
Aeschylus: The Libation Bearers; Sophocles: Electra; Euripides: Iphigenia among the Taurians, Electra, The Trojan Women
Language: English
Release Date: April 22, 2013
Greek Tragedies, Volume II contains Aeschylus’s “The Libation Bearers,” translated by Richmond Lattimore; Sophocles’s “Electra,” translated by David Grene; Euripides’s “Iphigenia among the Taurians,” translated by Anne Carson; Euripides’s “Electra,” translated by Emily Townsend...
by Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
Language: English
Release Date: September 28, 2006
From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Aristophanes' bold, imaginative Birds, and Menander's The Girl from Samos, which explores popular contemporary...
The Complete Euripides:Volume V: Medea and Other Plays
Volume V: Medea and Other Plays
Language: English
Release Date: December 7, 2010
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order...
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Euripides, along was Sophocles and Aeschylus, is largely responsible for the rise of Greek tragedy. It was in the 5th Century BC, during the height of Greece's cultural bloom, that Euripides lived and worked. Of his roughly ninety-two plays, only seventeen tragedies survive. Both ridiculed and lauded...
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
These two powerful classics of ancient drama are excellent examples of the author's gift for adapting traditional material for decidedly nontraditional effect. Through them Euripides critically examines social and moral aspects of contemporary life and even specific political events. He endows his...
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Euripides, along was Sophocles and Aeschylus, is responsible for the great rise of Greek tragedy. It was in the 5th Century BC, during the height of Greece's cultural bloom, that Euripides lived and worked. Of his roughly ninety-two plays, only seventeen tragedies survive. Both ridiculed and lauded during...
by Euripides
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Euripides, along was Sophocles and Aeschylus, is responsible for the rise of Greek tragedy. It was in the 5th Century BC, during the height of Greece's cultural bloom, that Euripides lived and worked. Of his roughly ninety-two plays, only seventeen tragedies survive. Both ridiculed and lauded during...