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Sophocles addresses themes of civil disobedience, fidelity, and love for family; and questions which law is greater: the gods' or man's—in this play that challenged many established mores of Ancient Greece.

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also known as the Father of Comedy and the Prince of Ancient Comedy, Aristophanes has been said to recreate the...

"Le supplici" è una tragedia di Euripide. Un gruppo di donne di Argo si riunisce presso l’altare di Demetra ad Eleusi: sono le madri dei guerrieri argivi morti nel fallito assalto a Tebe (quello raccontato da Eschilo nei Sette contro Tebe), per supplicare gli ateniesi di aiutarle a...

"The Alcestis would hardly confirm its author's right to be acclaimed 'the most tragic of the poets.' It is doubtful whether one can call it a tragedy at all. Yet it remains one of the most characteristic and delightful of Euripidean dramas, as well as, by modern standards, the most easily actable....

Wave after wave of refugees stumble along a wild shore studded with forgotten ruins and unremembered statues - these are the echoes and souls of abandoned gods and demi-gods who are condemned now to wander on that last edge before oblivion - and in their shadow, as they play out their final dances, a strange god appears to mock them all even as the wild sea moves in to sweep them all away.

In 1645, Basing House fell to the veterans of Cromwell's New Model Army amid a sack unparalled in ferocity and terror. Among the survivors of the Royalist defenders was Inigo Jones, the great Architect and Theatre Designer of the Court. In a fit of pique, he gathers the remaing Players in the ruins...

Ani Maamin - I believe… "Ani Ma'amin "I believe" is a prosaic rendition of Maimonides' thirteen-point version of the Jewish principles of faith. It is based on his Mishnah commentary to tractate Sanhedrin. The popular version of Ani Ma'amin is of a later date and has some significant...

In this clear and detailed reading guide, we’ve done all the hard work for you!Oedipus the King by Sophocles is a world-famous tragedy in which a man discovers that he has murdered his father and married his mother, despite having tried to escape this fate. The tragic irony in the play and the pathos...

Narrativa corta “The Real Right Thing” (1899) Originalmente publicado en Collier’s weekly, vol. 24, 16 (Diciembre1899) "Cuando después de la muerte de Ashton Doyne -sólo tres meses después- le hicieron a George Withermore eso que suele llamarse una proposición, con respecto...

This accessible introduction to the work of one of the world's greatest comic writers tackles key questions posed by Aristophanes' plays, such as staging, humour, songs, obscene language, politics and the modern translation and performance of Aristophanic comedy. The book opens up exciting and contentious...

For at least a generation, scholars have asserted that privacy barely existed in the early modern era. The divide between the public and private was vague, they say, and the concept, if it was acknowledged, was rarely valued. In Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare, Ronald Huebert challenges these assumptions...

Illustrated digital edition of a Shakespearean tragedy prepared in accordance with the principles of The World in Pictures project, providing a complete set of illustrations, among them 27 illustrations by outstanding painters, with a comprehensive rendering of the plot. Texts by Charles and Mery...

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Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London’s urban fabric and the city’s judicial procedures. Marissa Greenberg argues that plays by Shakespeare,...