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Aprender griego con nuestro método es la manera más gratificante y eficaz de aprender un idioma. Se refresca el vocabulario ya conocido y el vocabulario nuevo se pone en práctica al instante. Recomendado para estudiantes de nivel principiante e intermedio y también como curso de actualización....

Entdecken Sie eine neue und phantastische Art, Griechisch zu lernen, die Sie nicht mehr loslassen wird! Wir stellen unsere neue, zweisprachige Textreihe vor. Jede Story ist einzigartig, jeweils an eine historische Persönlichkeit angelehnt und in einem modernen Sprachstil geschrieben,...

Imparare il greco III con il nostro metodo rappresenta la maniera più stimolante ed efficace per apprendere una lingua. Il vocabolario preesistente viene richiamato alla memoria, mentre i termini appena appresi vengono messi in pratica. Consigliato per gli studenti di greco di livello principiante...

Salome was the daughter of Herod II and Herodias. She is infamous for demanding and receiving the head of John the Baptist, according to the New Testament. According to Flavius Josephus's Jewish Antiquities, Salome was first married to Philip the Tetrarch of Ituraea and Trakonitis. After Philip's...

Extrait : "'CHŒUR PROCESSIONNEL. O Jupiter, si tu te plais aux jeux, / Aux jeux sacrés que célèbre Olympie, / Ne permets pas le triomphe à l'impie, / Ne permets pas la honte aux courageux !' Entre le cortège d'un Athlète vainqueur. LE CORTÈGE. Pétrissons le miel avec l'orge ! / Gloire au vainqueur...

Édipo Rei é a primeira obra de um conjunto que inclui também Antígona e Édipo em Colono. O tema central é a família de Édipo,descrevendo eventos com mais de 8000 anos. A história desta família é determinada por uma profecia que Édipo irá matar o seu pai e casar com a sua mãe; a ação desta primeira peça é a descoberta da realização dessa profecia.

Two of Goldoni’s best comedies, The Venetian Twins (I Due Gemelli Veneziani) and Mirandolina (La Locandiera) brilliantly brought to life in these acclaimed translations. The RSC’s production of The Venetian Twins enjoyed huge success in Stratford and London.

Includes the plays Britannicus, Phedra and Berenice Jean Racine is the greatest tragedian of the French seventeenth century, using its strict rules and conventions to tell stories of overwhelming passion and cruelty. This volume brings together three of his greatest plays. Britannicus,...

This volume is dedicated to an intriguing Platonic work, the Laws. Probably the last dialogue Plato wrote, the Laws represents the philosopher's most fully developed views on many crucial questions that he had raised in earlier works. Yet it remains a largely unread and underexplored dialogue. Abounding...

The most important theatrical movement in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe, the commedia dell’arte has inspired playwrights, artists, and musicians including Molière, Dario Fo, Picasso, and Stravinsky. Because of its stock characters, improvised dialogue, and extravagant theatricalism,...

This volume contains five works by Henry Louis Mencken: “Pistols for Two,” “Heliogabalus,” “The Artist: A Drama Without Words,” “Suggestions to Our Visitors,” and “George Bernard Shaw: His Plays.”  None of these books are included in the volume “Six by Mencken and One by...

In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution: on Marxism, and its revisions in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin; on the theories of Emile Durkheim and their adaptations in...

One of Shaw's finest and most devilish comedies, Man and Superman portrays Don Juan as the quarry instead of the huntsman. John Tanner, upon discovering that his beautiful ward plans to marry him, flees to the Sierra Nevada mountain range, where he is captured by a group of rebels. Tanner falls asleep,...

Extrait : "MADAME : Mon cher joli roman, hélas ! si vous saviez Avec tout votre esprit comme vous m'ennuyez ! Une petite pause. Encor, je ne sais pas s'il m'ennuie, à vrai dire, – Petit livre, pardon, j'essayais de te lire, Et là, sincèrement, j'ai d'abord commencé L'esprit assez tranquille, et...