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By David Christenson, Plautus. 2012
The play Rudens provides an introduction to the world of Roman comedy from one of its best practitioners, Plautus. As…
with all Focus translations, the emphasis is on an inexpensive, readable edition that is close to the original, with an extensive introduction, notes and appendices.By Euripides. 2012
Produced more frequently on the ancient stage than any other tragedy, Orestes retells with striking innovations the story of the…
young man who kills his mother to avenge her murder of his father. Though eventually exonerated, Orestes becomes a fugitive from the Furies (avenging spirits) of his mother's blood. On the brink of destruction, he is saved in the end by Apollo, who had commanded the matricide. Powerful and gripping, Orestes sweeps us along with a momentum that starting slowly, builds inevitably to one of the most spectacular climaxes in all Greek tragedy.By James Elroy Flecker.
By Algernon Charles Swinburne.
By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
By Maria Edgeworth.
By Edmond Rostand.
This is the famous 19th-century play about a great swordsman and poet with the unseemly large nose. Although he is…
feared by opponents, he cannot court the woman of his dreams, except through anonymously sent poems, which makes for a romantic and adventurous tale.By Molière, A. R. Waller.
By Oscar Wilde.
By Diane J. Rayor. 2011
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 an essay by director Karen Libman. Antigone begins after Oedipus and Jocasta's sons have killed each other in battle over the kingship. The new king, Kreon, decrees that the brother who attacked with a foreign army remain unburied and promises death to anyone who defies him. The play centers on Antigone's refusal to obey Kreon's law and Kreon's refusal to allow her brother's burial. Each acts on principle colored by gender, personality and family history. Antigone poses a conflict between passionate characters whose extreme stances leave no room for compromise. The highly charged struggle between the individual and the state has powerful implications for ethical and political situations today.By Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe.
By William Congreve.
By Gotthold Lessing, Ernest Bell.
By John Gay.
By James Sheridan Knowles.
By George Bernard Shaw.
By George Bernard Shaw.
By Herman Gollob. 2003
On the eve of retiring from a successful publishing career, Herman Gollob attends a wonderful Broadway production of Hamlet starring…
Ralph Fiennes. Galvanized by the splendor of the language, the drama and the acting, he discovers an insatiable passion for all things Shakespeare. He reads broadly and deeply about the plays, discusses them with some of the great actors, directors, and teachers of our time, and soon finds himself teaching a popular Shakespeare class at a small New Jersey college. Gollob's quest leads him to Shakespeare's birthplace in Stratford-on-Avon; to the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, D.C.; to a summer course on Shakespeare at Oxford; and to London's recently rebuilt Globe Theatre. As he pursues his glorious new obsession, Gollob reflects on his family's bittersweet history, his encounters with writers, and the emergence of a Jewish identity that inspires some original ideas about Shakespeare's plays. Me and Shakespeare is a joyful memoir that attests to the power of literature to re-invigorate our lives at any age.From the Trade Paperback edition.By Henrik Ibsen, Eleanor Marx-Aveling.
By Jerome K. Jerome.