Greek Drama
10 best books like Greek Drama (Moses Hadas): The Unabridged William Shakespeare, Ten Plays, Shakespeare, The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek Book I, 100 Great Fantasy Short Short Stories, Ghosts and Other Plays (Ghosts; A Public Enemy; When We Dead Awake), Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Portable Arthur Miller, Four Plays: Summer and Smoke / Orpheus Descending / Suddenly Last Summer / Period of Adjustment
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0894716999 |
The World of Shakespeare: The Complete Plays and Sonnets of William Shakespeare (38 Volume Library) By William Shakespeare Stephen Orgel and A. R. Braunmiller, General Editors Amazon.com Exclusive The Pelican Shakespeare is available in hardcover for the first time in one complete collection...
| Author | Euripides |
| ISBN | 0553213636 |
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...
| Author | Mark Van Doren |
| ISBN | 1590171683 |
This legendary book by an esteemed poet and beloved professor at Columbia University features a series of smart, witty, deeply perceptive essays about each of Shakespeare's plays, together with a further discussion of the poems. Writing with an incomparable knowledge of his subject but without...
The Portable Greek Historians: The Essence of Herodotus, Thucydides, Xenophon, Polybius
I had tried to read this book before, and made it through this time. It certainly isn’t the most exciting reading, but it’s a good sample of some of the ‘greats’ of history. I enjoy reading about Classical history, so hearing from the mouth of those of the time is especially interesting. Herodotus...
| Author | Maurice Balme |
| ISBN | 0195149564 |
Combining the best features of traditional and modern methods, Athenaze: An Introduction to Ancient Greek, 2/e, provides a unique course of instruction that allows students to read connected Greek narrative right from the beginning and guides them to the point where they can begin reading complete...
| Author | Isaac Asimov |
| ISBN | 0380699176 |
Enter the limitless realms of pure imagination. Here you’ll discover the dangers of walking the boulevards dreamed up by Harlan Ellison … the dark side of wishes granted by Marion Zimmer Bradley’s Djinn Number Seven … the wry twists of Rick Norwood’s wordplay … the sinister shadows lurking...
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 attacks on convention. When We Dead Wake, his last play, handles in a symbolic manner the individual's...
| Author | Christopher Hampton |
| ISBN | 0571137245 |
Over the years I have seen many theatre productions of Pierre Choderlos de Laclos' master work, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, read more than one full translation of the novel, and seen both Steven Frears' film version, which uses Christopher Hampton's script, and Milos Forman's film version.
None...
| Author | Arthur Miller |
| ISBN | 0142437557 |
This classic collection—the only one-volume selection of Arthur Miller's work available—presents a rich cross section of writing from one of our most influential and humane playwrights, containing in full his masterpieces The Crucible and Death of a Salesman. This essential collection also...
| Author | Tennessee Williams |
| ISBN | 0451525124 |
I read the first three of the four plays and now we're needing to break from it (it's Cherie's and my latest book club book) so I'll concentrate on school books, except for on my commute, now. Suddenly Last Summer was definitely my favorite, just so shocking and surreal, I don't think you can trust any of...
| Author | Suzan-Lori Parks |
| ISBN | 1559362863 |
“Suzan-Lori Parks is one of the most important dramatists America has produced.”—Tony Kushner
“The plan was that no matter what I did, how busy I was, what other commitments I had, I would write a play a day, every single day for a year. It would be about being present and being...
| Author | Sophocles |
| ISBN | 0451527844 |
Here in one volume are the full texts of the seven extant plays of the Greek playwright Sophocles, regarded by the Greeks of his time as a kind of "tragic Homer". This collection includes the revised and updated translations by Paul Roche of the Oedipus cycle, Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and...
| Author | August Strindberg |
| ISBN | 0385092725 |
August Strindberg one of the founders of the modern theater, a playwight whom Bernard Shaw considered "the only genuinely Shakespearian modern dramatist" and of whom Sean O'Casey exclaimed, "Strindberg, Strindberg, Strindberg, the greatest of them all."
This collection offers the most...
| Author | Stephen Marche |
| ISBN | 1594489416 |
A virtuoso performance from an emerging new literary talent who crafts a vividly drawn history of an imaginary country.
In this stylistic tour de force, Stephen Marche creates the entire culture of a place called Sanjania-its national symbols, political movements, folk heroes, a group...
The Young Man from Atlanta
| Author | Horton Foote |
| ISBN | 0822214830 |
The Pulitzer Prize-winning The Young Man from Atlanta tells the story of a couple living in Houston in 1950, suffering the aftershocks of the mysterious death of their son. Will and Lily Dale Kidder try to hold onto their beliefs about their son's life and death and the possibilities for their own lives,...
The Harvard Classics - Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Journal of John Woolman, Fruits of Solitude
| Author | Charles William Eliot |
| ISBN | 0766182088 |
I didn't intend to read this book. It was something I ordered for my son to read when school starts again in the fall. But as I thumbed through it, I found every random thread I perused to be enthralling. I'm not sorry that I went back to the beginning and gave it the attention it deserved.
If I had to...
The Greek Achievement: The Foundation of the Western World
Charles Freeman's The Greek Achievement traces the entire course of ancient Greek history across thousands of years--from the Mycenaean and Minoan civilizations of the Bronze Age through the Archaic, Classical, Hellenistic, and Roman periods. This brilliant account celebrates the incredible...
It attests to Farquhar's stature as a man that he composed this warm-hearted and vibrant play while he was dying. Like The Recruiting Officer, the play is set in a provincial town and its plot is slight:
Aimwell and Archer, two impecunious London gentlemen, arrive in Lichfield looking for an heiress...
Miracle plays were a popular form of entertainment throughout the Middle Ages, and part of the poetic and dramatic tradition on which Shakespeare drew. Everyman discovers what you can't take with you when you go. He beseeches in turn friends, family (one pleads 'cramp in my toe'), possessions ('I follow...
