A Midsummer Night's Dream (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (ed Russ McDonald)
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: The Pelican Shakespeare
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the d ...Show more
The Persians and Other Plays: The Persians / Prometheus Bound / Seven Against Thebes / The Suppliants by Aeschylus
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama
Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. "The Persians", the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, through the eyes of t ...Show more
The Taming of the Shrew (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (ed Stephen Orgel)
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the d ...Show more
The Tragical History of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark (Pelican Shakespeare) by William Shakespeare (ed A R Braunmuller)
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama
"I feel that I have spent half my career with one or another Pelican Shakespeare in my back pocket. Convenience, however, is the least important aspect of the new Pelican Shakespeare series. Here is an elegant and clear text for either the study or the rehearsal room, notes where you need them and the d ...Show more
Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Three plays by the comedian of Ancient Greece Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. In Lysistrata a band ...Show more
Plays by Anton Chekhov
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Five masterful dramatic works from one of the world's best-loved playwrights, including The Seagull--now a major motion picture starring Saoirse Ronan, Elizabeth Moss, and Annette Bening At a time when the Russian theatre was dominated by formulaic melodramas and farces, Chekhov created a new sort of dr ...Show more
The Bacchae And Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. "Phoenician Women" portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation, whi ...Show more
The Pot of Gold & Other Plays by Titus Maccius Plautus
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
One of the supreme comic writers of the Roman world, Plautus (c.254-184 BC), skilfully adapted classic Greek comic models to the manners and customs of his day. This collection features a varied selection of his finest plays, from the light-hearted comedy Pseudolus, in which the lovesick Calidorus and h ...Show more
Terence - The Comedies by Terence
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
The Roman dramatist Terence (c. 186-159 BC) adapted many of his comedies from Greek sources, rendering them suitable for audiences of his own time by introducing subtler characterization and more complex plots. In his romantic play, The Girl from Andros, Terence portrays a love affair saved by a startli ...Show more
Ghosts, A Public Enemy, When We Dead Wake by Henrik Ibsen
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good
A collection of plays that focus on the family and how it struggles to stay together by telling lies - and exposing them.
Selected Poems by Rudyard Kipling
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Rudyard Kipling (1865-1936) is often regarded as the unofficial Laureate of the British Empire. Yet, his writing reveals a ferociously independent figure at times violently opposed to the dominant political and literary tendencies of his age. Arranged in chronological order, this diverse selection of hi ...Show more
The Theban Plays (King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone) by Sophocles
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Category: Creative Arts and Drama | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
The legends surrounding Oedipus of Thebes and his ill-fated offspring provide the subject matter for Sophocles' three greatest plays, which together represent Greek drama at the pinnacle of its achievement. Oedipus the King, the most famous of the three, has been characterized by critics from Aristotle ...Show more