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by Michael Köhlmeier
Language: German
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Language: German
Release Date: August 10, 2015
Mitreißend lebendig erzählt Michael Köhlmeier elf Dramen von William Shakespeare nach – beginnend mit "Macbeth", der blutigen Tragödie der Einbildungskraft, über "Ein Sommernachtstraum", das schönste Zaubermärchen der Weltliteratur, und "Othello", die Schule...
Doctor Faust. Das wiedergefundene Marionettenspiel
Reclams Universal-Bibliothek
Language: German
Release Date: February 9, 2018
Bis vor kurzem dachte man, die von Karl Simrock rekonstruierte Fassung des Puppenspiels um Dr. Faust würde dem nahekommen, was Goethe als Kind so tief beeindruckt hatte – bis Gerd Eversberg in Weimar Originalmanuskripte aus der Hand des Marionettenspielers Johann Georg Geißelbrecht fand. Und da...
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 2
Oedipus, Hercules Mad, Hercules on Oeta, Thyestes, Agamemnon
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE–65 CE). The two volumes of The Complete Tragedies...
The Complete Tragedies, Volume 1
Medea, The Phoenician Women, Phaedra, The Trojan Women, Octavia
Language: English
Release Date: February 21, 2017
Edited by world-renowned classicists Elizabeth Asmis, Shadi Bartsch, and Martha C. Nussbaum, the Complete Works of Lucius Annaeus Seneca offers authoritative, modern English translations of the writings of the Stoic philosopher and playwright (4 BCE–65 CE). The two volumes of The Complete Tragedies...
Shakespeare's Sense of Character
On the Page and From the Stage
Language: English
Release Date: April 1, 2016
Making a unique intervention in an incipient but powerful resurgence of academic interest in character-based approaches to Shakespeare, this book brings scholars and theatre practitioners together to rethink why and how character continues to matter. Contributors seek in particular to expand our notions...
by Professor Neil Bernstein
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2017
Hercules is the best-known character from classical mythology. Seneca's play Hercules Furens presents the hero at a moment of triumph turned to tragedy. Hercules returns from his final labor, his journey to the Underworld, and then slaughters his family in an episode of madness. This play exerted...
Antigone de Sophocle
Les Fiches de lecture d'Universalis
Language: French
Release Date: November 10, 2015
Bienvenue dans la collection Les Fiches de lecture d’Universalis
Rares sont les œuvres, créées dans la Grèce classique, qui aient connu une postérité semblable à celle d’Antigone et un foisonnement aussi vigoureux d’adaptations que celui suscité par la pièce la plus célèbre...
by Lucio Anneo Seneca
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 23, 2012
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 23, 2012
La tendenza di Seneca a una scrittura mossa, anticlassica, se già caratterizza le sue pagine di prosa, raggiunge il culmine nelle tragedie: in esse lo stile drammatico «dell'anima umana che è in guerra con se stessa» si plasma a esprimere le passioni dei personaggi, le loro intime lacerazioni,...
by Jean Giraudoux
Language: French
Release Date: August 4, 2018
Language: French
Release Date: August 4, 2018
Après le succès de La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu, l'idée vient à Giraudoux en 1935 ou 1936 d'«épousseter» le mythe d'Électre que Claudel avait remis dans l'air du temps en traduisant l'Agamemnon d'Eschyle. Les trois grands tragiques grecs, Eschyle, Sophocle et Euripide, ont en effet mis...
by Jean Giraudoux
Language: French
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Language: French
Release Date: December 5, 2014
Après Elpénor (1919), où il récrivait à sa façon l'Odyssée, Giraudoux tire cette fois son sujet de l'Iliade, poème épique d'Homère qui chante les combats héroïques du siège de Troie. Le prétexte...
by Jean Giraudoux
Language: French
Release Date: January 3, 2015
Language: French
Release Date: January 3, 2015
La guerre de Troie n'aura pas lieu est une pièce de théâtre de Jean Giraudoux (1882 - 1944), jouée la première fois le 22 novembre 1935 au Théâtre de l'Athénée sous la direction et avec Louis Jouvet. Ce livre comporte une table des...
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Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: March 29, 2012
New English versions of Lysistrata, The Frogs, The Birds, and Ladies' Day. "Thanks to Dudley Fitts...we can appreciate Aristophanes' vigor, his robust style, his scorching wit, his earthy humor, his devotion to honesty and his poetic imagination" (Brooks Atkinson, New York Times). Index.
by Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: March 2, 2016
Juno, wife of Jove (Jupiter) is jealous of Alcmene, mother of Hercules by Jove, and has been persecuting Hercules by imposing labours on him, through her intermediary, the tyrant Eurystheus.The final labour, which Hercules has just completed, was the bringing up of Cereberus, the three-headed watchdog...
by Esquilo
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 21, 2014
Language: Spanish
Release Date: January 21, 2014
“Agamenón” fue representada por primera vez en el año 458 a.C. Esquilo narra en ella la vuelta a casa de Agamenón, rey de Micenas, quien al llegar solo encontrará un trágico final auspiciado por su propia esposa. Durante su ausencia de éste su esposa Clitemnestra ha establecido una relación...