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Agamemnon *Libation Bearers *Eumenides
Aeschylus' Oresteia is the only trilogy to survive from Greek tragedy, and the religious and moral ideas it enacts afterwards influenced a great dramatic genre, as well as giving its three plays their lasting significance. In...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-11-13
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`the most tragic of the poets'
Aristotle
Euripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register and mood. He is also...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-11-13
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Mary Pix: The Innocent Mistress (1697)
Susanna Centlivre: The Busy-Body (1709)
Elizabeth Griffith: The Times (1779)
Hannah Cowley: The Belle's Stratagem (1780)
Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth centuries in selections that...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-11-13
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J M Synge was one of the key dramatists in the flourishing world of Irish literature at the turn of the century. This volume offers all of Synge's plays, which range from racy comedy to stark tragedy, all sharing a memorable lyricism.
The introduction sets Synge's...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-11-13
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Wycherley's four comedies are admired for their satirical wit, farcical humour, vivid characterization, and social criticism.Love in a Wood, a lively comedy of intrigue, established him as a brilliant new dramatist.The Gentleman Dancing-Master, in contrast, disappointed...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-11-13
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The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-09-11
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Pericles, Prince of Tyre, must solve a riddle in order to marry the daughter of the King of Antioch, or be put to death. But when the answer reveals a horrific secret, the young man faces his greatest dilemma. Danger and adventure follow as Pericles flees the city to...
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Penguin
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2008-09-04
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'Not all the water in the rough rude sea Can wash the balm off from an anointed king'Richard, a vain, despotic ruler, listens only to his flatterers. When his cousin Bolingbroke, previously banished, returns to seize the crown, Richard discovers that the throne given to...
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Penguin
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2008-08-28
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Love and loyalty, hatred and revenge, fear, deprivation, and political ambition: these are the motives which thrust the characters portrayed in these three Sophoclean masterpieces on to their collision course with catastrophe.
Recognized in his own day as perhaps the...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-08-14
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The Oxford Shakespeare
General Editor: Stanley Wells
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers
- A new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-08-14
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The Oxford Shakespeare
General Editor: Stanley Wells
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers
- A new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-08-14
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The Oxford Shakespeare
General Editor: Stanley Wells
The Oxford Shakespeare offers authoritative texts from leading scholars in editions designed to interpret and illuminate the plays for modern readers.
- A new, modern-spelling text, collated and edited from all...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-07-10
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Richly exploited comic situations, effervescent wit, and intricate plots combine to make Sheridan's work among the best of of all English comedy. The School for Scandal (1777) is his masterpiece, a brilliantly crafted comedy of contrasts in which brothers Joseph and...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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Thomas Dekker: The Shoemaker's Holiday
George Chapman, Ben Jonson, John Marston: Eastward Ho!
Ben Jonson: Every Man In His Humour
Thomas Middleton andThomas Dekker: The Roaring Girl
Oxford English Drama offers plays from the sixteenth to the early twentieth...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-06-12
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Designed to accompany its big sister from “Travaux d’Humanisme et Renaissance”, the “Cahiers d’Humanisme et Renaissance” series gathers a wide range of studies, historical, philological, bibliographical or literary, and of source editions (from Reformed theologians,...
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Librairie Droz
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2008-06-01
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Cahiers d'Humanisme et Renaissance
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Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller
In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of kings and queens and...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-05-09
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Arden of Faversham * A Woman Killed with Kindness * The Witch of Edmonton * The English Traveller
In about 1590, an unknown dramatist had the idea of writing a tragedy about the lives of ordinary people, instead of the genre's usual complement of kings and queens and...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-05-08
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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...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-05-08
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Taken from the highly acclaimed Oxford Ibsen, this collection of Ibsen's plays includes A Doll's House, Ghosts, Hedda Gabler, and The Master Builder.
ABOUT THE SERIES: For over 100 years Oxford World's Classics has made available the widest range of literature from...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-05-08
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'Why does he write those ghastly plays that the whole of Paris flocks to see? And why does he paint such lifelike portraits that everyone recognizes themselves?' Moliere, The Impromptu at Versailles
This volume brings together four of Moliere's greatest verse...
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OUP Oxford
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2008-05-08
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