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Showing 1 - 12 of 12 results for “william blake tyrrell”
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  • Recapturing Sophocles' Antigone

    by William Blake Tyrrell, Larry J. Bennett ...
    Series series Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches
    In this book, Wm. Blake Tyrrell and Larry J. Bennett examine Sophocles' Antigone in the context of its setting in fifth-century Athens. The authors attempt to create an interpretive environment that is true to the issues and interests of fifth-century Athenians, as opposed to those of modern scholars and philosophers. As they contextualize the play in the dynamics of ancient Athens, the authors ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

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  • The Golden Fleece

    by Padraic Colum ...
    Series series Unabridged Start Publishing LLC
    The Argonautica is the dramatic story of Jason's quest for the Golden Fleece and his relations with the dangerous princess Medea. The only surviving Greek epic to bridge the gap between Homer and late antiquity, this epic poem is the crowning literary achievement of the Ptolemaic court at Alexandria, written by Appolonius of Rhodes in the third century BC. Appollonius explores many of the ... Read more

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  • Oedipus the King

    by Sophocles ...
    Series series Enriched Classics
    The famed Athenian tragedy in which Oedipus’s own faults contribute to his tragic downfall.A great masterpiece on which Aristotle based his aesthetic theory of drama in the Poetics and from which Freud derived the Oedipus complex, King Oedipus puts out a sentence on the unknown murderer of his father Laius. By a gradual unfolding of incidents, Oedipus learns that he was the assassin and that ... Read more

    $6.99 USD

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  • Ten Plays by Euripides

    by Euripides ...
    The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized: as Sophocles himself said, ... Read more

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  • Orestes and Other Plays

    by Euripides ...
    Written during the long battles with Sparta that were to ultimately destroy ancient Athens, these six plays by Euripides brilliantly utilize traditional legends to illustrate the futility of war. The Children of Heracles holds a mirror up to contemporary Athens, while Andromache considers the position of women in Greek wartime society. In The Suppliant Women, the difference between just and unjust ... Read more

    $14.29 USD

  • Sang-Thong A Dance-Drama from Thailand

    A Dance-Drama From Thailand

    by King Rama II ...
    Translated by Fern S. Ingersoll ...
    Sang Thong: A Dance-Drama from Thailand, a beloved treasure of Thailand's classical theater is now available for the first time in English.Composed by King Rama II and his court poets early in the 19th century, this captivating dance-drama blends ribald humor, sharp observation, and graceful poetry. Its incidents are based on age-old Asian legends and on vigorous folk-traditions of the Thai ... Read more

    $5.99 USD

  • Carnival and Theater (Routledge Revivals)

    Plebian Culture and The Structure of Authority in Renaissance England

    by Michael D. Bristol ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    In this title, first published in 1985, Michael Bristol draws on several theoretical and critical traditions to study the nature and purpose of theatre as a social institution: on Marxism, and its revisions in the work of Mikhail Bakhtin; on the theories of Emile Durkheim and their adaptations in the work of Victor Turner; and on the history of social life and material culture as practiced by the ... Read more

    $68.99 USD

  • Bakkhai

    by Reginald Gibbons ...
    Translated by Charles Segal ...
    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    Regarded by many as Euripides' masterpiece, Bakkhai is a powerful examination of religious ecstasy and the resistance to it. A call for moderation, it rejects the temptation of pure reason as well as pure sensuality, and is a staple of Greek tragedy, representing in structure and thematics an exemplary model of the classic tragic elements. Disguised as a young holy man, the god Bacchus arrives in ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • Magical Imaginations

    Instrumental Aesthetics in the English Renaissance

    by Genevieve Guenther ...
    In the English Renaissance, poetry was imagined to inspire moral behaviour in its readers, but the efficacy of poetry was also linked to 'conjuration,' the theologically dangerous practice of invoking spirits with words. Magical Imaginations explores how major writers of the period – including Spenser, Marlowe, and Shakespeare – negotiated this troubling link between poetry and magic in their ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Cratinus and the Art of Comedy

    by Emmanuela Bakola ...
    Cratinus, one of the lost great poets of fifth-century Athenian comedy, had a formative influence on the comic genre, including Aristophanes himself. Using a methodologically innovative approach, Emmanuela Bakola studies the surviving fragments of Cratinus' plays and offers a thorough analysis of the multifaceted art of this poet and his place in the history of comedy. Issues which she addresses ... Read more

    $100.79 USD

  • The Wedding Cup

    Or Sophonisba's Chalice, and Other Tales

    by Thomas Geisler ...
    Based on actual events during the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage, The Wedding Cup is a drama about the tragic love triangle between Sophonisba, a Carthaginian generals daughter, and the rival rulers of two North African states. As Scipio, the Roman general, prepares to invade Africa, Sophonisba must make dreadful choices which will ultimately shape history. No Woman is an Island is a ... Read more

    $8.99 USD

  • Le Cid by Pierre Corneille (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    by Bright Summaries ...
    Series series BrightSummaries.com
    Unlock the more straightforward side of Le Cid with this concise and insightful summary and analysis!This engaging summary presents an analysis of Le Cid by Pierre Corneille, one of the most famous plays of this acclaimed French playwright of the 17th century. In this deeply moving tragicomedy based on a Spanish story, the heroes are torn between love and duty because of a destiny which has ... Read more

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