Lysistrata and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
 Translation with wit but without true character of original: Alan Sommerstein went to some length to translate the puns and plays on words (as further explained in the endnotes), which results in a very active play, and, for the careful reader, wit in [... more]
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The Oresteia: Agamemnon; The Libation Bearers; The ...
even better the second time around: These are great plays, and this is a beautiful translation. I think, though, that to really appreciate what Aeschylus accomplished (aided and abetted by Fagles), most modern readers should really read the entire [... more]
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Six Yuan Plays (Penguin Classics)
An excellent anthology of Chinese drama: "Six Yuan Plays" is an anthology whose contents are translated by Liu Jung-en, who also contributes an introduction. The book brings together plays from 13th and 14th century China. The contents are as [... more]
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Medea and Other Plays (Penguin Classics)
Great Collection: I think this is one of the better compilations I've seen. I've really been impressed with all of the Oxford World's Classics series. The information given in the Introduction as well as the maps and reference materials mentioned are [... more]
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Birds and Other Plays (Oxford World's Classics)
A Review on Aristophanes' Plays: Aristophanes is considered the finest comic playwrite of the Classical Era. This is certainly born out through the selection in this volume. Birds is a comedy about an Athenian who decides to incite the birds to take over [... more]
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Iphigeneia at Aulis (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
First rate, modern translation: Finding first rate translations can be a hit and miss affair. However, this it definitely a "hit". Merwin's translation of Euripides' tragedy is masterful and deserves the glowing reviews it has received here as [... more]
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Aias (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
"A brilliant addition to a distinguished series": "A brilliant addition to a distinguished series". That's what Bernard Knox said, and I couldn't agree more. I think most of us who love the classics will agree that if Knox says it is [... more]
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Menander, The Plays and Fragments (Oxford World's Classics)
The Root of All Happy-Ending Art: Whip through a couple of these short plays and fragments by the father of Greek New Comedy, and you'll see just how much our more modern formats are indebted to him: the American sit-com, the romantic comedy, etc. [... more]
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Hecuba (Greek Tragedy in New Translations)
War and loss driving Hecuba mad.: Hecuba was the wife of Priam, King of Troy, and the mother of Hector, Paris, Cassandra, and others. At the start of this play of Euripedes, the war between the Greeks and Troy is over and Hecuba is now a slave of [... more]
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Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra (Oxford World's ...
Strong Translation: H.D.F. Kitto was a distinguished interpreter of Greek tragedy. These translations, which were written for performance, are at once accurate, clear, and very elegant. Hall provides precisely as much information in the notes as the [... more]
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York Mystery Plays: A Selection in Modern Spelling ...
Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 822.051608 EAN: 9780192837103 ISBN: 0192837109 Number Of Pages: 320 Publication Date: 1999-11-11 [... more]
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The Misanthrope, Tartuffe, and Other Plays (Oxford ...
Amusing: The book contains two of Moliere's best known works, "Tartuffe" (about a religious hypocrite) and "The Misanthrope." Clever and incisive, these works provoke commentary and poke fun at human qualities that everyone can relate [... more]
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