Tragedies
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Oedipus Trilogy: New Versions of Sophocles’ Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone
$17.00 Read moreFresh, new translations of Sophocles’s three Theban plays by acclaimed theater director Bryan Doerries, which emphasize the contemporary relevance of these classic Greek tragedies.
Here are Oedipus th- Author: Sophocle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 496
- Publish Date: October 26 2021
- ISBN10: 0593314956
- Language: English
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The Complete Aeschylus: Volume I: The Oresteia
$14.99 Add to cartBased on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can properly re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: January 04 2011
- ISBN10: 0199753636
- Language: English
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Faust: Parts One and Two
$18.00 Read moreThe best-known work of the Enlightenment literary giant Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Faust took a lifetime to write. For more than sixty years, Goethe worked on his masterpiece and ultimately divided i… [more below]
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Goethe, Johann Wolfgang Von
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 368
- Publish Date: June 13 2018
- ISBN10: 0486821889
- Language: English
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Anthony and Cleopatra: The Oxford Shakespeareanthony and Cleopatra
$10.95 Add to cartNow available in beautiful World’s Classics editions–with handsome, four-color covers and new low prices–The Oxford Shakespeare offers new and authoritative edions of Shakespeare’s plays. In each vo… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 400
- Publish Date: June 15 2008
- ISBN10: 0199535787
- Language: English
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Antigone
$13.99 Add to cartOedipus, the former ruler of Thebes, has died. Now, when his young daughter Antigone defies her uncle, Kreon, the new ruler, because he has prohibited the burial of her dead brother, she and he enact … [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 208
- Publish Date: August 24 2007
- ISBN10: 0195143108
- Language: English
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The Complete Plays
$18.00 Add to cartMarlowe’s seven plays dramatise the fatal lure of potent forces, whether religious, occult or erotic. In the victories of Tamburlaine, Faustus’s encounters with the demonic, the irreverence of Barabas… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Marlowe, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 752
- Publish Date: January 06 2004
- ISBN10: 0140436332
- Language: English
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Oresteia
$11.95 Add to cartThe Oresteia is the only trilogy of tragedy plays to survive from Ancient Greece. Agamemnon, Libation Bearers, and Eumenides have established the enduring themes of Greek tragedy–the inexorable natur… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: January 15 2009
- ISBN10: 019953781X
- Language: English
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The Gospel at Colonus
$16.95 Add to cart“I’ve been in a lot of shows in my life, and I’ve thought a lot of ’em were pretty good, but this is a masterpiece.” -Morgan Freeman
“An ancient drama explodes into a hand-clapping, soul-stirring gosp- Author: Breuer, Lee
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: January 01 1993
- ISBN10: 930452941
- Language: English
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Macbeth
$5.00 Add to cartOne of the great Shakespearean tragedies, Macbeth is a dark and bloody drama of ambition, murder, guilt, and revenge. Prompted by the prophecies of three mysterious witches and goaded by his ambitious
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: December 23 1993
- ISBN10: 0486278026
- Language: English
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Dr. Faustus
$5.00 Add to cartOne of the most durable myths in Western culture, the story of Faust tells of a learned German doctor who sells his soul to the devil in exchange for knowledge and power. Early enactments of Faust’s d
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Marlowe, Christopher
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: October 20 1994
- ISBN10: 0486282082
- Language: English
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Antony and Cleopatra
$13.00 Add to cartFor this updated edition, David Bevington has included in his introductory section a thorough consideration of recent critical and stage interpretations of Antony and Cleopatra, demonstrating how the … [more below]
- Series: New Cambridge Shakespeare
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 304
- Publish Date: July 04 2005
- ISBN10: 052161287X
- Language: English
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Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra
$9.94 Add to cartThis volume of Antigone, Oedipus the King, Electra contains three masterpieces by the Greek playwright Sophocles, widely regarded since antiquity as the greatest of all the tragic poets. The vivid tra… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 224
- Publish Date: February 01 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537178
- Language: English
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CliffsComplete Shakespeare’s Hamlet
$18.99 Add to cartIn the CliffsComplete guides, the novel’s complete text and a glossary appear side-by-side with coordinating numbered lines to help you understand unusual words and phrasing. You’ll also find all the
- Series: Cliffs Complete
- Author: Lamb, Sidney
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 242
- Publish Date: May 15 2000
- ISBN10: 0764585681
- Language: English
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Prometheus Bound
$14.99 Add to cartFor readers accustomed to the relatively undramatic standard translations of Prometheus Bound, this version by James Scully, a poet and winner of the Lamont Poetry Prize, and C. John Herington, one of… [more below]
- Series: Greek Tragedy in New Translations
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 144
- Publish Date: February 01 1990
- ISBN10: 0195061659
- Language: English
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Antigone: In a New Translation by Nicholas Rudall
$14.93 Add to cartOne of the greatest, most moving of all tragedies, Antigone continues to have meaning for us because of its depiction of the struggle between individual conscience and state policy, and its delicate p… [more below]
- Series: Plays for Performance
- Author: Sophocles
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 56
- Publish Date: November 01 1998
- ISBN10: 1566632110
- Language: English
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The Oresteia
$17.00 Add to cartIn the Oresteia Aeschylus addressed the bloody chain of murder and revenge within the royal family of Argos. As they move from darkness to light, from rage to self-governance, from primitive ritual to… [more below]
- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Aeschylus
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 335
- Publish Date: February 07 1984
- ISBN10: 0140443339
- Language: English
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Othello
$6.95 Add to cartThe Signet Classics edition of William Shakespeare’s Othello, a disturbing exploration of jealousy and wrath.
Tragedy takes hold as the cunning and hateful Iago drives the titular heroic Moor of Venic- Series: Signet Classics
- Author: Shakespeare, William
- Binding: Mass Market Paperbound
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: April 01 1998
- ISBN10: 0451526856
- Language: English
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Medea/Hippolytus/Electra/Helen
$9.94 Add to cartEuripides 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 an… [more below]
- Series: Oxford World’s Classics (Paperback)
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 272
- Publish Date: February 15 2009
- ISBN10: 0199537968
- Language: English
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Medea
$5.00 Add to cartOne of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medea centers on the myth of Jason, leader of the Argonauts, who has won the dragon-guarded treasure of the Golden Fleece with the help of the
- Series: Dover Thrift Editions
- Author: Euripides
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 64
- Publish Date: April 19, 1993
- ISBN10: 0486275485
- Language: English
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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone; Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus
$17.00 Add to cartThe heroic Greek dramas that have moved theatergoers and readers since the fifth century B.C.
Towering over the rest of Greek tragedy, the three plays that tell the story of the fated Theban royal fam- Series: Penguin Classics
- Author: Sophocle
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 432
- Publish Date: February 07 1984
- ISBN10: 0140444254
- Language: English
