Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses
9 best books like Tales from Ovid: 24 Passages from the Metamorphoses (Ovid): Henry VIII, Death of a Naturalist, Top Girls, Phantom, The Travels of Sir John Mandeville, The Spirit Level, The Complete Plays, Epicoene, Say Something Back
| Author | William Shakespeare |
| ISBN | 0743273303 |
Henry VIII is a history play generally believed to be a collaboration between William Shakespeare and John Fletcher, based on the life of Henry VIII of England. An alternative title, All is True, is recorded in contemporary documents, the title Henry VIII not appearing until the play's publication...
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
| ISBN | 0571202403 |
Some books are thin and light, yet they carry so much weight, like Heaney's Death of a Naturalist. Each poem in this collection is a work of art, a masterpiece. There is neither pretentiousness nor symbolism here. The collection is one of his most accessible and the best place to start with his work. Each...
| Author | Caryl Churchill |
| ISBN | 0413554805 |
Now this is one dinner party I would have loved to participate in, shame it was a women's only affair. I guess playing the waiter would come a close second, just so I could overhear the conversation on offer between six charming ladies, five of which return from history.
There is the host of course,...
| Author | Susan Kay |
| ISBN | 1933626046 |
Susan Kay's Phantom is the unbelievably tragic and dramatic story of novel character Erik from the Phantom of the Opera by (Gaston Leroux). Susan Kay has written a terrific novel. Content and Lyrics are very impressive. "The Phantom" is written exciting and entertaining and full of beautiful and wise...
| Author | John Mandeville |
| ISBN | 0141441437 |
Ostensibly written by an English knight, the Travels purport to relate his experiences in the Holy Land, Egypt, India and China. Mandeville claims to have served in the Great Khan's army, and to have travelled in 'the lands beyond' - countries populated by dog-headed men, cannibals, Amazons and Pygmies....
| Author | Seamus Heaney |
| ISBN | 0571178227 |
The poems in Seamus Heaney's collection The Spirit Level keep discovering the possibilities of 'a new beginning' in all kinds of subjects and circumstances. What is at stake, in poem after poem, is the chance of buoyancy and balance, physical, spiritual and political. Private memories, classical...
| 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 | Ben Jonson |
| ISBN | 0393900401 |
New Mermaids are modernized and fully-annotated editions of classic English plays. Each volume includes:
� The playtext, in modern spelling, edited to the highest bibliographical and textual standards
� Textual notes recording significant changes to the copytext and variant...
| Author | Denise Riley |
| ISBN | 1447270371 |
Say Something Back will allow readers to see just why the name of Denise Riley has been held in such high regard by her fellow poets for so long. The book reproduces A Part Song, a profoundly moving document of grieving and loss, and one of the most widely admired long poems of recent years. Elsewhere these...
