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“Antigone,” the first Theban play written by Sophocles yet chronologically last in the cycle, is a masterpiece of classical antiquity which examines the conflict between public duty and personal loyalty. Following the banishment of Oedipus, his two sons Eteocles and Polyneices have died leading opposite...

When Eurydice finds herself in Hades she is mocked and tormented by demons. Can her husband rescue her before the fiends of Hell destroy her last spark of humanity? Can Eurydice and Orpheus overcome the wrath of the Queen of the Dead? [Drama / Dramatic Verse (PG) 70 pages | Released in 2012 by Dragonfly Publishing, Inc. | Available in print and ebook]

A Lady, entering the florist's with her muff to her face, and fluttering gayly up to the counter, where the florist stands folding a mass of loose flowers in a roll of cotton batting: "Good-morning, Mr. Eichenlaub! Ah, put plenty of cotton round the poor things, if you don't want them frozen stiff!...

Classic Noh, Kyogen and Kabuki Works Nothing reflects the beauty of life as much as Japanese theater. It is here that reality is held suspended and emptiness can fill the mind with words, music, dance, and mysticism. A.L. Sadler translates the mysteries of Noh, Kyogen, and Kabuki in his groundbreaking...

El último de los trágicos griegos, Eurípides, nos transmitió diecinueve tragedias. Eurípides es hombre de su tiempo y hombre de eternidad. Es, sencillamente, hombre. Su tragedia es pura y absolutamente humana, capta todo lo que somos, padecemos, anhelamos y no podemos alcanzar. Por eso el público...

“Las Fenicias” datada hacia el año 410 a.C. es la tragedia de Eurípides basada en una parte del Ciclo Tebano. Yocasta, madre de Edipo, se había casado con él sin saber su parentesco y fue por ello madre de Eteocles, Polinices, Ismene y Antígona. Al conocer el parentesco, Edipo, que se había...

“Hécuba” forma parte de la serie de tragedias escritas por el gran dramaturgo griego Eurípides. Basada en el Ciclo Troyano está datada hacia el 424 a.C. Antes de la toma de Troya, los reyes Príamo y Hécuba habían enviado a su hijo menor, Polidoro, junto con abundantes riquezas, a la corte...

Datada hacia el año 408 a.C., “Orestes” es una de las últimas tragedias de Eurípides. Orestes, tras haber matado a su madre Clitemnestra, estaba en Argos y seguía siendo perseguido por las Erinias, por lo que se encontraba muy enfermo y era cuidado por su hermana Electra. En el juicio por...

Sophocles' Antigone comes alive in this new translation that will be useful for academic study and stage production. Diane Rayor's accurate yet accessible translation reflects the play's inherent theatricality. She provides an analytical introduction and comprehensive notes, and the edition includes...

Includes the monologues The Bull, The One Within, Somedays, The Last word and The Roykeaneiad A father denied access to his children, a footballer deserting his team, a terrorist lost in the politics of peacetime. Five monologues in the voices of contemporary men, inspired by the heroes and heroines of classical myths.

Euripides (480 BC-406 BC) is revered as one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, along with Aeschylus and Sophocles, and produced the largest body of extant work by any ancient playwright. He is considered to be the most modern of the three, and he laid the foundation for Western theatre....

A violent tragedy by a contemporary of Nero, in a faithful and uncut translation by one of our leading dramatists. Atreus, Agamemnon's father, takes revenge on his brother Thyestes by murdering Thyestes's sons and serving their flesh up for their father's dinner. 'a bleakly eloquent...

Orestes’ parents are at war. A family drama spanning several decades, a huge, moving, bloody saga, Aeschylus’ greatest and final play asks whether justice can ever be done – and continues to resonate more than two millennia after it was written. This new adaptation of Oresteia was first...

Moonlight on the Post-Apocalyptic Dinner Theater is a short play about the survivors of a nuclear apocalypse. Every night, the survivors congregate at the last inn on Earth to listen to the Jester, who tries to console them.The two lead characters, Katrina and Fidelio, are in love with each other...