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Extrait : "LE JEUNE GOURVILLE : Ainsi, belle Ninon, votre philosophie Pardonne à mes défauts, et souffle ma folie. De ce jeune étourdi vous daignez prendre soin. Vous êtes tolérante, et j'en ai grand besoin. NINON : J'aime assez, cher Gourville, à former la jeunesse, Le fils de mon ami vivement...

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...

Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom...

Aristophanes' play, Lysistrata, takes place toward the end of the Peloponnesian War and centers on the lives of the soldiers' wives. One woman, Lysistrata, under the impression that a man's libido is ultimately his driving force in life, comes up with an interesting peace solution: to deny their husbands...

When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say ‘No’. Forging ahead with a funeral alone, she places personal allegiance before politics, a tenacious act that will trigger a cycle of destruction.

One of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate probing of the nature of human suffering. Mr. Rudall's splendid translation brings a new power and speakability to Sophocles' prose.

When the Peloponnesian War goes on too long, the women of Athens, led by the beautiful Lysistrata, take matters into their own hands, withholding their passion as a way to force their men to negotiate a peace treaty. But the women’s vow to deny their husbands and lovers does little to force peace,...

Thesmophoriazusae was performed in Athens in 411 BCE, most likely at the City Dionysia, and is among the most brilliant of Aristophanes' eleven surviving comedies. It is the story of the crucial moment in a quarrel between the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens' women, who accuse him of slandering...

Produced the same year as LYSISTRATA, THE THESMOPHORIAZUSAE is considered one of the most brilliant of Aristophanes' extant plays.  The play focuses on the role of women in a male-dominated society, as well as poking fun at several contemporary Athenian poets. Aristophanes (c.446 BC...

Hélène (Hélénè) est une tragédie de l'auteur grec classique Euripide (480 av. J.-C. – 406 av. J.-C.). Résumé : Raillée, par Aristophane notamment, la version alternative du mythe d'Hélène que présente Euripide commence par le postulat selon lequel ce n'est pas la vraie...

OIDIPOUS. Ôenfants, race nouvelle de l’antique Kadmos, pourquoi vous tenez-vous ainsi devant moi avec ces rameaux suppliants ? Toute la Ville est pleine de l’encens qui brûle et du retentissement des Paians et des lamentations. Je n’ai point pensé que je dusse apprendre ceci...

Phèdre est une tragédie en cinq actes et en vers du dramaturge et poète français Jean Racine, créée en 1677 à Paris sous le titre Phèdre et Hippolyte.   Ce livre numérique comporte une table des matières dynamique. Il...

Extrait : "L'INTENDANT, donnant des ordres : A-t-on dressé les tables de jeu ? LE DOMESTIQUE : Deux de whist, une de boston. L'INTENDANT : Vous avez prévenu les musiciens ? LE DOMESTIQUE : Ils seront au grand salon à neuf heures et demie. L'INTENDANT : C'est bien... Alors le punch et le thé au boudoir."À...

Extrait : "MADAME DÉSAUBRAIS, à Galinois : Est-ce tout, monsieur ? GALINOIS : Absolument tout, madame... Ah ! non, il y a encore la dernière page, la liste des voyageurs arrivés cette semaine à Bagnères. HENRIETTE : Y sommes-nous, monsieur ? GALINOIS : En tête, mademoiselle. HENRIETTE, bas, à...