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  • Phaethon

    by Euripides, Alistair Elliot ...
    Series series Oberon Modern Plays
    In classical mythology, Phaethon is the child of the sun god Helios, who tries to drive his father's chariot and is killed in the attempt. Euripides explains how this happened: Helios had seduced Phaeton's mother - already betrothed to another - and as the price of her seduction had promised to grant her a favour. As an adult Phaethon claims the promise and asks to drive his father's chariot, with ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • Medea

    by Euripides ...
    Translated by Alistair Elliot ...
    Series series Oberon Classics
    'What I intend to do is wrong, but the rage of my heart is stronger than my reason – that is the cause of all men’s foulest crimes.'Medea is the archetypal wronged woman driven to despair. When uncontrollable anger is unleashed, the obsessed mind’s capacity for revenge knows no bounds.Introduction by Nicholas Dromgoole ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

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  • Faust

    by Johann Wolfgang von Goethe ...
    A restless scholar seeks ultimate knowledge and discovers the extraordinary consequences of his ambitions. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe's Faust is one of the most influential works of European literature, exploring knowledge, desire, morality, ambition, and the search for meaning. The drama follows Faust, a scholar dissatisfied with the limits of human understanding. His encounter with ... Read more

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  • Antigone

    by Anne Carson, Sophocles ...
    Series series Modern Plays
    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.Renowned for the revelatory nature of his work, Ivo van ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

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  • The Actor's Book of Classical Monologues

    More Than 150 Selections from the Golden Age of Greek Drama, the Age of Shakespeare, the Restoration and the Eighteenth Century

    Edited by Stefan Rudnicki ...
    A challenging, wide-ranging collection of monologues from history’s greatest dramatic worksFrom the stately and poetic Greek tragedies to the lively, bawdy Restoration comedies, the classical repertoire is a treasure trove of often-overlooked materials for male and female, young and old. The solo pieces collected here vary widely in mood, style, and level of challenge; they include a generous ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Sophocles I

    Antigone, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus

    by Sophocles ...
    Translated by Mark Griffith, Glenn W. Most, David Grene, Richmond Lattimore ...
    Series series The Complete Greek Tragedies
    Sophocles I contains the plays “Antigone,” translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; “Oedipus the King,” translated by David Grene; and “Oedipus at Colonus,” translated by Robert Fitzgerald.Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a momentous project: a new translation of the Greek tragedies that would be the ultimate resource for teachers, students, and readers. They succeeded. Under the ... Read more

    $18.99 CAD

  • Noh Plays of Japan

    by Arthur Waley ...
    The Noh Plays of Japan is the most respected collection of Noh plays in English.The classic Japanese plays can be read for their great literary merit and also provide the reader with an understanding of a unique theatre art and important insights into the cultural, spiritual and artistic traditions of Japan.The Noh Plays of Japan, first published in 1921 and justly famous for more than three ... Read more

    $19.99 CAD

  • The Greek Plays

    Sixteen Plays by Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides

    by Sophocles, Aeschylus, Euripides ...
    Series series Modern Library Classics
    A landmark anthology of the masterpieces of Greek drama, featuring all-new, highly accessible translations of some of the world’s most beloved plays, including Agamemnon, Prometheus Bound, Bacchae, Electra, Medea, Antigone, and Oedipus the KingFeaturing translations by Emily Wilson, Frank Nisetich, Sarah Ruden, Rachel Kitzinger, Mary Lefkowitz, and James RommThe great plays of Ancient Greece are ... Read more

    $16.99 CAD

  • Japanese Folk Plays: The Ink Smeared Lady and Other Kyogen

    The Ink Smeared Lady and Other Kyogen

    This collection of Japanese folk plays reveals a previously unknown and decidedly unaristocratic element to Japanese theater.Interspersed between the stately, slower paced dramas of Japan’s Noh theater are the delightful comic plays or interludes known as Kyogen. These brief plays evolved from the bawdy skits that were rousingly enjoyed by the plebeian populaces of the cities in feudal Japan some ... Read more

    $7.99 CAD

  • The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The Eumenides

    by Aeschylus ...

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  • The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1)

    Neglected Authors

    by Dr Matthew Wright ...
    Numerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that still survive. This book, by contrast, concentrates on the plays that no longer exist. Hundreds of tragedies were performed in Athens and further afield during the classical period, and even though nearly all are lost, a certain amount is known about them through fragments and other ... Read more

    $39.99 CAD

  • Somewhere in Time (Historical Fiction Sampler)

    (Historical Fiction Sampler)

    by Indelible Writers ...
    Somewhere in Time SAMPLERAncient Roman romance. Hitler’s Germany. 1890’s New Orleans. This historical fiction sampler will transport you to to the past and let you experience these worlds as if they were new.This sampler contains excerpts from the following novels:Artemis Rising by Cheri LasotaJars of Clay by Lee StraussRouge by Leigh T. MoorePlaying With Matches by Lee StraussTo Rid... ... Read more

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