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Classical Inter/Faces eBook Series

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  • Performance and Cure

    Drama and Healing in Ancient Greece and Contemporary America

    Series series Classical Inter/Faces
    In this fascinating addition to the Classical Inter/faces series, Karelisa V. Hartigan suggests that drama was regularly performed in the theatres built within or adjacent to the ancient sanctuaries of Asklepios. She argues that a pageant which showed the enactment of the god healing prompted the dream therapy the patient experienced at the sanctuary. Patients who viewed this drama were ready to ... Read more

    S$ 42.83 SGD

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  • The Three Theban Plays

    Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus

    Translated by Robert Fagles ...
    The heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C.Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal family—Antigone, Oedipus the King and *Oedipus at Colonus—*are among the most enduring and timeless dramas ever written. Robert Fagles's authoritative and acclaimed translation conveys all of Sophocles's ... Read more

    S$ 15.14 SGD

  • The Unfortunate Traveller and Other Works

    by Thomas Nashe ...
    Written in the late sixteenth century, at the pinnacle of the English Renaissance, the rich and ingenious works of Thomas Nashe uniquely reveal the ambivant nature of the Elizabethan era. Mingling the devout and the bawdy, scholarship and slang, they express throughout an irrepressible, inexhaustible wit and an astonishing command of language. This collection of Nashe's finest works includes The ... Read more

    S$ 23.97 SGD

  • Prometheus Bound

    Series series Greek Tragedy in New Translations
    For readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of the world's foremost Aeschylean scholars, will come as a revelation. Scully and Herington accentuate the play's true power, drama, and relevance to modern times. Aeschylus originally wrote Prometheus ... Read more

    S$ 13.92 SGD

  • The Lost Plays of Greek Tragedy (Volume 1)

    Neglected Authors

    Numerous books have been written about Greek tragedy, but almost all of them are concerned with the 32 plays that still survive. This book, by contrast, concentrates on the plays that no longer exist. Hundreds of tragedies were performed in Athens and further afield during the classical period, and even though nearly all are lost, a certain amount is known about them through fragments and other ... Read more

    S$ 42.83 SGD

  • Bakkhai

    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

    S$ 45.22 SGD

  • Antigone

    Sophocles

    Series series Modern Plays
    When Creon refuses to bury the body of Antigone's unruly brother, Antigone's anger quickly turns to defiance. Creon condemns her to a torturous death: she's to be buried alive.Acclaimed playwright Roy Williams takes Sophocles' play and, by placing it into a contemporary setting, brings this classic tale vividly to life.A timeless story about loyalty and truth, about how we make meaning out of life ... Read more

    S$ 21.46 SGD

  • Japanese Theatre

    Japanese Theatre presents a full historical account for Westerners of the theater arts that have flourished for centuries in Japan.Kabuki, arising in the late seventeenth century, is the theater of the commoner. The successive syllables of Kabuki mean "song dance skill." The precursors of Kabuki were the puppet theater and the comic interludes in the stately, aristocratic Noh drama all fully ... Read more

    S$ 10.02 SGD

  • Le Cid by Pierre Corneille (Book Analysis)

    Detailed Summary, Analysis and Reading Guide

    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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  • Greek Tragedy and the Emotions (Routledge Revivals)

    An Introductory Study

    by W. Stanford ...
    Series series Routledge Revivals
    According to Aristotle the main purpose of tragedy is the manipulation of emotions, and yet there are relatively few accessible studies of the precise dynamics of emotion in the Athenian theatre.In Greek Tragedy and the Emotions, first published in 1993,W.B. Stanford reviews the evidence for ‘emotionalism’ – as the great Attic playwrights presented it, as the actors and choruses expressed it, and ... Read more

    S$ 107.29 SGD

  • Becoming Female

    The Male Body in Greek Tragedy

    "Becoming Female", the first book-length examination of the body in classical Athenian tragedy, reconsiders the figure of the male tragic hero, making use of both feminist and body theory. The male hero becomes female in the space of tragedy through the experience of suffering, and seems unable to return to any secure expression of masculinity. Katrina Cawthorn concentrates initially on the figure ... Read more

    S$ 169.38 SGD

  • Aeschylus: Libation Bearers

    Series series Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
    Libation Bearers is the 'middle' play in the only extant tragic trilogy to survive from antiquity, Aeschylus' Oresteia, first produced in 458 BCE. This introduction to the play will be useful for anyone reading it in Greek or in translation. Drawing on his wide experience teaching about performance in the ancient world, C. W. Marshall helps readers understand how the play was experienced by its ... Read more

    S$ 37.27 SGD