Download or read book The Plays and Fragments written by Menander and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menander was the founding father of European comedy. From Ralph Roister Doister to What the Butler Saw, from Henry Fielding to P. G. Wodehouse, the stock motifs and characters can be traced back to him. The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays but until the twentieth century he was known to us only by short quotations in ancient authors. Since 1907 papyri found in the sand of Egypt have brought to light more and more fragments, many substantial, and in 1958 the papyrus text of a complete play was published, The Bad-Tempered Man (Dyskolos) . His romantic comedies deal with the lives of ordinary Athenian families, and they are the direct ancestors not only of Roman comedy but also of English comedy from the Renaissance to the present day. This new verse translation is accurate and highly readable, providing a consecutive text with supplements based on the dramatic situation and surviving words in the damaged papyri. ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from around the globe. Each affordable volume reflects Oxford's commitment to scholarship, providing the most accurate text plus a wealth of other valuable features, including expert introductions by leading authorities, helpful notes to clarify the text, up-to-date bibliographies for further study, and much more.
Download or read book Sophocles The Plays and Fragments written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1894 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book sophocles the plays and fragments written by Sophocles and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1892 with total page 370 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sophocles the Plays and Fragments 1892 1900 written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Play of Texts and Fragments written by J.C.R. Cousland and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009-06-24 with total page 564 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is arguably one of the most important studies of Euripides to appear in the last decade. Not only does it offer incisive examinations of many of Euripides' extant plays and their influence, it also includes seminal examinations of a number of Euripides’ fragmentary plays. This approach represents a novel and exciting development in Euripidean studies, since it is only very recently that the fragmentary plays have begun to appear in reliable and readily accessible editions. The book’s thirty-two contributors constitute an international "who’s who" of Euripidean studies and Athenian drama, and their contributions will certainly feature in the forefront of scholarly discourse on Euripides and Greek drama for years to come.
Download or read book Sophocles the Plays and Fragments with Critical Notes Commentary and Translation in English Prose written by Sophocles (495-406 B.C.) and published by CUP Archive. This book was released on 1890 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Plays and Fragments written by Menander and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2004-07-29 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Menander (c. 341-291 BC) was the foremost innovator of Greek New Comedy, a dramatic style that moved away from the fantastical to focus upon the problems of ordinary Athenians. This collection contains the full text of 'Old Cantankerous' (Dyskolos), the only surviving complete example of New Comedy, as well as fragments from works including 'The Girl from Samos' and 'The Rape of the Locks', all of which are concerned with domestic catastrophes, the hazards of love and the trials of family life. Written in a poetic style regarded by the ancients as second only to Homer, these polished works - profoundly influential upon both Roman playwrights such as Plautus and Terence, and the wider Western tradition - may be regarded as the first true comedies of manners.
Download or read book Plays and Fragments Philoctetes 2nd ed 1898 written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Ram n Griffero Your Desires in Fragments and other Plays written by Ramón Griffero and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-09-30 with total page 268 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contains the plays Your Desires in Fragments, Cups of Wrath, Midday Lunches or Petit Dejeuner du Midi, Sebastopol (Desert Times), Downstream (Río Tormentoso), Ecstasy or Steps to Sainthood, Long Live the Republic: The Three Antonios, Gorda, The Opera Cleaners, and Legua’s Gynecologist The first collection of plays in English from the influential and radical Chilean playwright and director, Ramon Griffero, whose plays from the late 1980s to the present have been essential components in the resurgence of contemporary Chilean theatre. Adam Versényi’s translations will bring Griffero's contributions to theatre to the English-speaking-world for the first time. Having been forced to leave Chile at the time of the military coup in 1973, because of his radical political activities, Ramon Griffero returned in the early 1980s. As an openly gay former revolutionary, he founded the theatre company Teatro del Fin de Siglo, and ‘El Trolley’, a cultural space for resistance to the Pinochet dictatorship.
Download or read book The Plays and Fragments written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The plays and fragments written by Sophocles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1890 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Richard Jebb's seven-volume edition of the works of Sophocles, published between 1883 and 1896, remains a landmark in Greek scholarship. Jebb (1841-1905) was the most distinguished classicist of his generation, a Fellow of Trinity College, Cambridge, and University Orator, subsequently Professor of Greek at Glasgow University and finally Regius Professor of Greek at Cambridge, and a Member of Parliament for the University. Each volume of the edition contains an introductory essay, a metrical analysis, an indication of the sources used to establish the text, and the ancient summaries ('arguments') of the play. The text itself is given with a parallel English translation, textual collation and explanatory notes, and an appendix consisting of expanded notes on some of the textual issues. The quality of Jebb's work means that his editions are still widely consulted today. This volume contains Philoctetes.
Download or read book The fragments of Sophocles written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 1092 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The plays and fragments 5 The Trachiniae written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1962 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Sophocles Fragments written by Sophocles and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sophocles (497/6-406 BC), considered one of the world's greatest poets, forged tragedy from the heroic excess of myth and legend. Seven complete plays are extant, including Oedipus Tyrannus, Ajax, Antigone, and Philoctetes. Among many fragments that also survive is a substantial portion of the satyr play The Searchers.
Download or read book Plays and Fragments written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Beowulf and the Finnisburh Fragment written by Clarence Griffin Child and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 136 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Play of Texts and Fragments written by J. Robert C. Cousland and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2009 with total page 595 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is arguably one of the most important studies of Euripides to appear in the last decade. Not only does it offer incisive examinations of many of Euripides' extant plays and their influence, it also includes seminal examinations of a number of Euripides fragmentary plays. This approach represents a novel and exciting development in Euripidean studies, since it is only very recently that the fragmentary plays have begun to appear in reliable and readily accessible editions. The book s thirty-two contributors constitute an international "who s who" of Euripidean studies and Athenian drama, and their contributions will certainly feature in the forefront of scholarly discourse on Euripides and Greek drama for years to come.
