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The Complete Aeschylus Volume Ii Persians And Other Plays
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Author : Aeschylus
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2009-02-17
The Complete Aeschylus Volume Ii Persians And Other Plays written by Aeschylus and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-02-17 with Literary Collections categories.
Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The volume brings together four major works by one of the great classical dramatists: Prometheus Bound, translated by James Scully and C. John Herrington, a haunting depiction of the most famous of Olympian punishments; The Suppliants, translated by Peter Burian, an extraordinary drama of flight and rescue arising from women's resistance to marriage; Persians, translated by Janet Lembke and C. John Herington, a masterful telling of the Persian Wars from the view of the defeated; and Seven Against Thebes, translated by Anthony Hecht and Helen Bacon, a richly symbolic play about the feuding sons of Oedipus. These four tragedies were originally available as single volumes. This new volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.
Kuyanuka And Other Plays
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Author : Gha-Makhulu Diniso
language : en
Publisher: African Books Collective
Release Date : 2009-10-19
Kuyanuka And Other Plays written by Gha-Makhulu Diniso and has been published by African Books Collective this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-10-19 with Drama categories.
Kuyanuka and other Plays by Gha-Makhulu Diniso is also a collection of three one person plays; Kuyanuka was first performed in 1991, Koropa in 2000 and Shoeville in 2005. As critic Darryl Accone observes: It is precisely because of his conscience and commitment to true freedom that Diniso remains an artist neglected in his own country. Not for him complacency about the much lip-serviced Rainbow Nation, a least not while the stench of inequality not only persists but grow fouler by the day. There is no extravagant escapism imported from abroad and peddled to the nouveaux riches and petite bourgeois of the New South Africa. Instead though the creation of multiple characters reflecting the harshness of life under the neo-liberal economic order, Diniso expresses the problematic of celebrating political freedom when most black people find their living standards under threat and soaring unemployment and casualization undermining much of the early liberation promise.
Medea And Other Plays
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Author : Euripides
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-11-13
Medea And Other Plays written by Euripides and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-11-13 with Drama categories.
`the most tragic of the poets' Aristotle Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register and mood. He is also remarkable for the prominence he gave to female characters, whether heroines of virtue or vice. In the ethically shocking Medea, the first known child-killing mother in Greek myth to perform the deed in cold blood manipulates her world in order to wreak vengeance on her treacherous husband. Hippolytus sees Phaedra's confession of her passion for her stepson herald disaster, while Electra's heroine helps her brother murder their mother in an act that mingles justice and sin. Lastly, lighter in tone, the satyr drama, Helen, is an exploration of the impossibility of certitude as brilliantly paradoxical as the three famous tragedies. This new translation does full justice to Euripides's range of tone and gift for narrative. A lucid introduction provides substantial analysis of each play, complete with vital explanations of the traditions and background to Euripides's world. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Persians And Other Plays
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Author : Aeschylus
language : en
Publisher: Penguin UK
Release Date : 2009-11-26
The Persians And Other Plays written by Aeschylus and has been published by Penguin UK this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-11-26 with Drama categories.
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, through the eyes of the Persian court of King Xerxes, becoming a tragic lesson in tyranny. In Prometheus Bound, the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, while The Suppliants relates the pursuit of the fifty daughters of Danaus by the fifty sons of Aegyptus, and their final rescue by a heroic king.
In The Continuum And Other Plays
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Author : Rory Kilalea
language : en
Publisher: Weaver Press
Release Date : 2019-09-05
In The Continuum And Other Plays written by Rory Kilalea and has been published by Weaver Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2019-09-05 with Drama categories.
Belonging : a radio play / by Mirirai Moyo -- Introduction to Belonging / Rory Kilalea -- Notes and questions. When I meet my mother / by Kathleen McCreery -- Introduction to When I meet my mother / by Michael Bourdillon -- Notes and questions. In the continuum / by Danai Gurira and Nikkole Salter -- Introduction to In the continuum / by Rory Kilalea -- Notes and questions. Power failure : a radio play / by Jide Olugbenga Afolayan -- Introduction to Power failure / by Rory Kilalea -- Notes and questions.
The Cooking Pan And Other Plays
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Author : Margaret Macpherson
language : en
Publisher: East African Publishers
Release Date : 1979
The Cooking Pan And Other Plays written by Margaret Macpherson and has been published by East African Publishers this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with African drama (English) categories.
The Hour Of All Things And Other Plays
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Author : Caridad Svich
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2017
The Hour Of All Things And Other Plays written by Caridad Svich and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017 with Awareness categories.
Four plays by playwright/theatre-maker Caridad Svich (OBIE for Lifetime Achievement) - The Hour of All Things, The Breath of Stars, Upon the Fragile Shore and Agua de luna (psalms for the rouge) - explore the rough and necessary waters of citizenship under the effects of globalization and threads of human connection across multiple geographic landscapes. The Hour of All Things tells the story of an ordinary person trying to figure out how to take a stand against systemic oppression; The Breath of Stars is a radical, atomized reconfiguration of Shakespeare's The Tempest seen through the lens of global capitalism in the digital age. Upon the Fragile Shore spans the stories of individuals in eighteen countries to focus on human-made environmental and human tragedies and their effects. Agua de luna (psalms for the rouge) looks at the tough and tender lives of immigrants and their adult children in Detroit as they struggle to relocate the power of myth in their everyday lives. With an introduction by Welsh playwright and director Ian Rowlands and essays by practitioners Zac Kline, Blair Baker, Neil Scharnick, Carla Melo and Sherrine Azab, this wide-ranging, daring collection of plays refuses to settle the complex and thorny questions of existence.
Orange Lips And The Barbecue People And Other Plays
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Author : Robert Reichardt
language : en
Publisher: AuthorHouse
Release Date : 2009-06-01
Orange Lips And The Barbecue People And Other Plays written by Robert Reichardt and has been published by AuthorHouse this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-01 with Fiction categories.
This collection contains six fascinating comedies by the avant-garde playwright, Robert Reichardt. Each is unique in its subject matter, and dazzling in originality. ORANGE LIPS AND THE BARBECUE PEOPLE answers the question about what happens to people when they wind up in Purgatory -- that in-between place described by Dante. Do they just sit and wait? No, they barbecue and run the lives of selected people still on Earth. A group of obnoxious barbecue people get involved with the family of Kenny "Orange Lips" Jung, and this leads to riotous conflict. ECHO AND THE CAMOUFLAGE, is set in modern Chicago, and is loosely based on the Greek Myth of Echo, Narcissus, and Queen Hera. A young blind girl, Echo Seltsam, is suddenly cured and transformed by a miracle into The Blue Lady -- a person of unlimited power. What she does with it, and how it effects her narcissistic, camouflage-wearing Father, Jerry, and others provides the comic structure of the play. The short play, KAREN, THE FUSE LADY, describes a bizarre Summer "romance" in a cheap Chicago tenement, as a young renter becomes involved with his neurotic neighbor. He battles to save his electricity (and sanity) from a woman who has other ideas about how he should live his life. HAT-P-1, OR A BIG CRUNCH. After scientists predict the Universe will soon end in a "Big Crunch," a group gathers in an affluent Chicago suburb for a black-tie party to comfort one another. It doesn't work out that way. The guests soon discover a lot about one another (not much of it good), and engage in various forms of escapism -- primarily focused on unrealistic thoughts about going to HAT-P-1, a newly discovered gigantic planet so light and fluffy it would float on water.
The School For Scandal And Other Plays
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Author : Richard Brinsley Sheridan
language : en
Publisher: OUP Oxford
Release Date : 1998-05-07
The School For Scandal And Other Plays written by Richard Brinsley Sheridan and has been published by OUP Oxford this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1998-05-07 with Drama categories.
Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a brilliantly crafted comedy of contrasts in which brothers Joseph and Charles Surface contend for Maria, with hilariously differing intentions and results. Also a work of acute comic irony, The Rivals satirizes the romantic posturing of Lydia Languish while her disguised suitor Captain Absolute's resourceful contrivances advance an ever inventive and skilfully wrought plot. Included in this edition are the opera play The Duenna and the rarely printed musical play A Trip to Scarborough, adapted from Vanbrugh's The Relapse. Sheridan's last play, The Critic, is an exuberant parody of the modish tragic drama of the day. Lampooning Sir Fretful Plagiary's absurdly bombastic historical drama during its confused stages of production, its satire never fails to delight. The texts of the plays have been newly edited by the General Editor of the Oxford World's Classics English Drama series. A fine introduction and notes on Sheridan's playhouses and critical inheritance make this an invaluable edition for study and performance alike. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
The Widowing Of Mrs Holroyd And Other Plays
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Author : David Herbert Lawrence
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2001
The Widowing Of Mrs Holroyd And Other Plays written by David Herbert Lawrence and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with Drama categories.
A Collier's Friday NightThe Widowing of Mrs HolroydThe Daughter-in-LawThe Fight for BarbaraTouch and GoOxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to early twentieth centuries in selections that make available both rarely printed and canonical works. The texts are freshly edited using modern spelling. Critical introductions, wide-ranging annotation, and informative bibliographiesilluminate the play's cultural contexts and theatrical potential for reader and performer alike.'The series should reshape the canon in a number of significant areas. A splendid and imaginative project.' Anne Barton, Canbridge University