Subject: Greek drama (Keywords)

This new edition of Don Taylor's translation presents one of the most accessible and performable versions of this ancient play and provides a blueprint for understanding and staging the play today.

The Bacchae was not only the last and greatest of Euripides' tragedies, it was very close to the last of the great Greek tragedies. This edition has been translated by the award-winning poet Robin Robertson.

Nietzsche found in classical Athenian tragedy an art form that transcended the pessimism and nihilism of a fundamentally meaningless world. The Greek spectators, by looking into the abyss of human suffering and affirming it, passionately and joyously affirmed the meaning of their own existence. T...

Comissioned to mark the centenary of the Abbey Theatre in Dublin in 2004, this text features Seamus Heaney's new verse translation of Sophocles' great tragedy, 'Antigone' - whose eponymous heroine is one of the most sharply individualized and compelling figures in western drama.

Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. This volume presents an edited Greek text and a faithful and deftly worded translation of three plays.

Euripides has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. This volume presents an edited Greek text and a faithful and deftly worded translation of three plays.

Brings together, with explanatory notes, the work of the Hellenistic comic playwright, Menander. This volume contains the surviving portions of ten plays, including "Misoumenos" ("The Man She Hated"), which presents the flawed relationship of a soldier and a captive girl.