William Shakespeare, Barbara Everett Signet Classics Retail Price: $4.95 Sale Price: $4.49 You Save: $0.46
A magnificent drama of love and war, this riveting tragedy presents one of Shakespeare's greatest female characters--the seductive, cunning Egyptian queen Cleopatra. The ... more.
William Shakespeare Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $4.95 Sale Price: $4.49 You Save: $0.46
The Winter's Tale is Shakespeare's most perfectly realized tragi-comedy, as notable for its tragic intensity as for its comic grace and, for the richness and complexity of its poetry. It concludes, ... more.
Thomas Middleton Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
This collection of plays shows Middleton experimenting with the classical genres of tragedy and comedy as he develops his own individual dramatic voice. In his early comedies, characterized by an almost Terentian delight in ingen ... more.
William Shakespeare, Stephen Orgel Oxford University Press Retail Price: $10.95
The Oxford Shakespeare text has a modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all existing printings. It has on-page commentary and notes to explain meaning, staging, and allusions and is illustrated with pro ... more.
William Shakespeare, Tony Tanner Random House, Inc Retail Price: $20.00 Sale Price: $14.99 You Save: $5.01
Here are the most treasured works in all of literature: William Shakespeare's timeless plays. This handsome collectible volume contains the complete, unabridged versions of all of Shakespeare's histories, including < ... more.
Philip Vellacott Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $12.00
Euripides (c.484-406 B.C.) was the most controversial of the three great Greek tragedians and the most modern. His major themes- religious scepticism, the injustices suffered by women and the destructive folly of war- ... more.
August Strindberg Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $12.00
Passionate and powerful, the three plays collected together in this volume represent August Strindberg at his best. In its grim depiction of the war between the sexes, The Father is perhaps the most realistic of the pla ... more.
Jean Racine Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
Writing under he auspices of France's radical and omnipotent king, Louis XIV, Racine created settings that reflect all the aura and majesty of his monarch's rule. But, within this framework, he developed themes of ruthless a ... more.
Henrik Ibsen Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.00
Of the three plays in this volume, Ghosts and A Public Enemy are social dramas of his middle period; and the former, described by one London critic as 'an open sewer', raised the greatest outcry of all Ibsen's attac ... more.
Plautus adapted for the amusement of Roman audiences the Greek New Comedy of the fourth century. His wit is clever and satirical and his entertaining portrayal of slaves firmly set the style for the 'low' characters of Elizabethan come ... more.
Henrik Johan Ibsen Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.00
The three plays in this volume (The League of Youth, A Doll's House, The Lady from the Sea) demonstrate different sides of Henrik Ibsen's genius, but all deal with themes of alienation from society and the breakin ... more.
The Pseudolus, with its love-lorn young man and quick-talking slave who try desperately to wrest the captive heroine away from the scheming pimp, is a typical and masterly example of Plautus's genius. Other plays in this volume ... more.
Henrik Johan Ibsen Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.00
Henrik Ibsen's 'Peer Gynt' translated with an introduction by Peter Watts. Peer Gynt, his greatest play in verse, was also to be Ibsen's last. ... more.
Philip Vellacott Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $13.00
All of the plays in this text follow the traditional cycles of heroic legend. While a large part of their purpose was that of dramatic entertainment, each of them bears ready comparison with the political climate of Ath ... more.
Jung-En Liu Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $17.00 Sale Price: $12.99 You Save: $4.01
Although their Mongol overlords (beginning with the founding of the Yuan dynasty by kublai Khan in 1280) tyrannized the Chinese in nearly every area of life, the arts enjoyed a new-found freedom. On the one hand oppressed, on the other rel ... more.
Terence Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
Terence's subtle plots and sensitive characterization have had a lasting influence on modern theatre. In'translating' Greek New Comedy into a differend world, the Roman dramatist Terrence (c. 186-159 B.C.) gave to his plays a humanism and sen ... more.
William Shakespeare Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $16.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $4.01
This volume contains the tetralogy of plays - Richard II, Henry IV Parts 1 and 2 and Henry V - written by Shakespeare c. 1595to 1599. Each play possesses its own distinctive modd, tone and style, and toge ... more.
William Shakespeare Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
This collection--including The Taming of the Shrew, A Midsummer Night's Dream, As You Like It, and Twelfth Night in the New Penguin Shakespeare text--is engagingly introduced and skillfully annotated, bringing toge ... more.
William Shakespeare Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
These four tragedies--Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth in the New Penguin Shakespeare text--contain some of Shakespeare's most celebrated protagonists and finest dramatic poetry. ... more.
Sophocles Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $12.00
Based on the legend of the royal house of Thebes, King Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone are Sophocles's tragic masterpieces. This verse translation is supplemented by E.F. Watling's introduction, which places Sophocles in historical con ... more.
Henrik Ibsen Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.00
The three plays in this volume cover the period during which Ibsen (1828-1906) was preoccupied wih realistic problems of personal and social morality. In The Pillars of the Community, partly by means ... more.
Translated with an Introduction by Philip Vellacott Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $13.00
Prometheus Bound, The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, and The Persians, presented here in verse translation, demonstrate that reason, not violence, is the proper principle of civilized l ... more.
Philip Vellacott Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $11.00
The last of three great Athenian dramatists, and during his lifetime perhaps the most controversial, Euripides was the first playwright to use the chorus as a commentator; the first to put ... more.
Pierre Caron Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $14.00 Sale Price: $10.99 You Save: $3.01
It is said of Beaumarchais (1732-99) that he had only one character--himself--and that Figaro epitomizes all his creator's vices. This does not seem to have stood in the way of his success. If The ... more.
Lucius Annaeus Seneca Penguin Putnam Inc. Retail Price: $15.00 Sale Price: $11.99 You Save: $3.01
All these plays reflect the invigorating and unorthodox way in which Seneca used the spoken word. The tragedies of Seneca represents a curious branch of Latin literature. Taken from Greek drama, their legendary ... more.
The only surviving trilogy in Greek drama surviving from antiquity, Aeschylus follows the tale of the royal family of Argos. Built upon the foundation of Homeric legends, the Oresteia is a story of re ... more.
William Shakespeare Random House, Inc Retail Price: $24.00 Sale Price: $17.99 You Save: $6.01
This volume contains the following works by Shakespeare: The Comedy of Errors, The Taming of the Shrew, The Two Gentlemen of Verona, Love's Labor's Lost, Romeo and Juliet, and A Midsummer Night's Dream. ... more.
Oedipus' doomed life-trying to avoid the curse he's been cursed to bear-towers over Greek tragedy. Translated with lucidity and power, the riddles of Oedipus are potent as they ever were ... more.
William Shakespeare Simon & Schuster Trade Sales Retail Price: $53.00 Sale Price: $41.99 You Save: $11.01
Renowned as Shakespeare's most boisterous comedy, The Taming of the Shrew is the tale of two young men -- the hopeful Lucentio and the worldly Petruchio -- and the two sisters they meet in Padua. Lucentio falls in lov ... more.
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