Plays And Fragments

Author : Menander
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141913479
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.76/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Menander,
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 019954073X
Total Pages : 353 pages
Book Rating : 4.30/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plays and Fragments written by Menander, and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2008-05-08 with total page 353 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The greatest writer of Greek New Comedy and the founding father of European comedy, Menander (c.341-290 BC) wrote over one hundred plays, of which only one complete play and substantial fragments of others survive. This new verse translation is accurate and highly readable, providing a consecutive text by using surviving words in the damaged papyri.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 442 pages
Book Rating : 4.20/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Sophocles written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1885 with total page 442 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Tim Etchells
Publisher : Psychology Press
ISBN 13 : 9780415173827
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.25/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Certain Fragments written by Tim Etchells and published by Psychology Press. This book was released on 1999 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An exploration of what lies at the heart of contemporary theatre. Written by the artistic director of Forced Entertainment, it investigates the process of devising performance, theatre's interdisciplinary role, and the city's influence.

Author : J. Robert C. Cousland
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004174737
Total Pages : 595 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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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.

Author : Jeffry W. Johnston
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1416924868
Total Pages : 212 pages
Book Rating : 4.69/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments written by Jeffry W. Johnston and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2007-01-09 with total page 212 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chase wishes he could remember the events of his accident, but when the memories begin to come back in his dreams, Chase must face the reality of his past and finally deal with the part he played in the tragic event.

Author : W. Geoffrey Arnott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521551809
Total Pages : 916 pages
Book Rating : 4.03/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alexis: The Fragments written by W. Geoffrey Arnott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1996-09-12 with total page 916 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This 1996 text was the first detailed commentary on the fragments remaining from the plays of the Greek comic poet Alexis (c. 375-270 BC).

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 696 pages
Book Rating : 4.23/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fragments written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 696 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lost works by ancient Greece's third great tragedian. Eighteen of the ninety or so plays composed by Euripides between 455 and 406 BC survive in a complete form and are included in the preceding six volumes of the Loeb Euripides. A further fifty-two tragedies and eleven satyr plays, including a few of disputed authorship, are known from ancient quotations and references and from numerous papyri discovered since 1880. No more than one-fifth of any play is represented, but many can be reconstructed with some accuracy in outline, and many of the fragments are striking in themselves. The extant plays and the fragments together make Euripides by far the best known of the classic Greek tragedians. This edition, in a projected two volumes, offers the first complete English translation of the fragments together with a selection of testimonia bearing on the content of the plays. The texts are based on the recent comprehensive edition of R. Kannicht. A general Introduction discusses the evidence for the lost plays. Each play is prefaced by a select bibliography and an introductory discussion of its mythical background, plot, and location of the fragments, general character, chronology, and impact on subsequent literary and artistic traditions.

Author : Sophocles
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.00/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Plays and Fragments written by Sophocles and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : S. Douglas Olson
Publisher : OUP Oxford
ISBN 13 : 0191569445
Total Pages : 496 pages
Book Rating : 4.49/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Broken Laughter written by S. Douglas Olson and published by OUP Oxford. This book was released on 2007-05-17 with total page 496 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of over 200 of the most interesting and important fragments of Greek comedy, accompanied by a commentary; an extensive introduction discussing the history of comic genre; a series of appendixes on the individual poets, the inscriptional evidence, and the like; and a complete translation of the fragments. Individual sections illustrate the earliest Greek comedy from Syracuse; the characteristic features of Athenian `Old', `Middle', and `New Comedy'; the comic presentation of politicians, philosophers, and women; the comic reception of other poetry; and many aspects of daily life, including dining and symposia.