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Choephori
ISBN: 9780198721345 / Angielski / Miękka / 1988 / 454 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This new edition of Choephori takes into account the abundance of recent scholarship on Aeschylus' work. A. F. Garvie's introduction discusses the pre-Aeschylean Orestes tradition in literature and art, the character of the play itself--its ideas, imagery, structure, and staging--and the state of the transmitted text. This edition reprints the Greek text and critical apparatus from the well-received Oxford Classical Text, edited by D. L. Page, and includes 350 pages of commentary devoted to problems of interpretation, style and dramatic technique.
This new edition of Choephori takes into account the abundance of recent scholarship on Aeschylus' work. A. F. Garvie's introduction discusses the pre...
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178,07 zł |
Oxford Readings in Aristophanes
ISBN: 9780198721567 / Angielski / Twarda / 1996 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Aristophanes is the only author of Greek Attic comedy whose work survives in any form beyond fragments. His eleven surviving comedies reflect the spirit of Athens in the golden age and its unique freedom of speech. This anthology brings together all the most important contributions to the study of Aristophanes; it addresses a range of subjects from the classic question of Aristophanes' relationship to contemporary politics to more modern issues such as performance context, the interaction between fifth century comedy and tragedy, and gender
Aristophanes is the only author of Greek Attic comedy whose work survives in any form beyond fragments. His eleven surviving comedies reflect the spir...
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728,43 zł |
Frogs
ISBN: 9780198721758 / Angielski / Twarda / 1997 / 272 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This new abridged edition of Aristophanes' Frogs provides the students with the text of the play and includes a detailed commentary and full introduction. Sir Kenneth Dover has now abridged the acclaimed edition which he first produced in 1993 and added a vocabulary which eliminates the need for recourse to a lexicon. The result is an edition which fits much more closely the needs of students.
This new abridged edition of Aristophanes' Frogs provides the students with the text of the play and includes a detailed commentary and full introduct...
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740,87 zł |
Birds
ISBN: 9780198721772 / Angielski / Miękka / 1998 / 552 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Birds is generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces, for its imaginative plot (it is the source of the word "Cloudcuckooland"), and its charming and original lyrics. This abridgment of Nan Dunbar's widely acclaimed edition of Birds, published in 1995, preserves all the material designed to help the less advanced student of Greek or the non-specialist to translate, understand, and enjoy the play. It also retains the notes on staging, but the metrical, textual, and ornithological problems are dealt with more summarily, and purely illustrative parallels are omitted.
Birds is generally recognized as one of Aristophanes' masterpieces, for its imaginative plot (it is the source of the word "Cloudcuckooland"), and its...
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325,03 zł |
Oxford Readings in Classical Studies: Euripides
ISBN: 9780198721857 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 424 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Few ancient authors are as challenging as Euripides, and few have provoked so many diverse critical opinions through the ages. This volume aims to bring together some classic essays illustrating the main strands of Euripidean criticism over the last forty years in a form convenient for students. Two of the essays are translated here for the first time, and many others have been revised by their authors. There is a general introduction by the editor surveying the scholarly tradition. All Greek has been translated.
Few ancient authors are as challenging as Euripides, and few have provoked so many diverse critical opinions through the ages. This volume aims to bri...
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989,88 zł |
Oxford Readings in Menander, Plautus, and Terence
ISBN: 9780198721932 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 312 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book documents the origins of modern comedy by examining the evolution of "New Comedy," the Greek genre of which the works of Menander are the only surviving example. It looks at the quiet domestic dramas of Menander, the farces of Plautus, and the comedies of Terence. An authoritative Introduction sets the papers, which are by leading experts in their field, in context and explores connections between them thus examining the legacy for modern comedies. All Latin and Greek is translated.
This book documents the origins of modern comedy by examining the evolution of "New Comedy," the Greek genre of which the works of Menander are the on...
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260,28 zł |
The Intimate Screen: Early British Television Drama
ISBN: 9780198742333 / Angielski / Miękka / 2000 / 192 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. This book explores the formative period of British television drama, concentrating on the years 1936-55. It examines the continuities and changes of early television drama, and the impact this had upon the subsequent 'golden age'. In particular, it questions the caricature of early television drama as 'photographed stage plays' and argues that early television pioneers in fact produced a diverse range of innovative drama productions, using a wide range of techniques.
This book explores the formative period of British television drama, concentrating on the years 1936-55. It examines the continuities and changes of e...
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275,23 zł |
Plautine Elements in Plautus
ISBN: 9780199249107 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 484 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Eduard Fraenkel was one of the most influential classicists of the twentieth century. His Plautine Elements in Plautus (originally published in German in 1922) revolutionized the study of Roman comedy. It is still essential reading for students and scholars of Plautus. This translation makes it accessible to an English-speaking readership for the first time. All Latin and Greek is translated, thus making the work available to a wider audience consisting of all those interested in Roman drama. The book includes a translation of the Addenda to the Italian translation published in 1960. The...
Eduard Fraenkel was one of the most influential classicists of the twentieth century. His Plautine Elements in Plautus (originally published in German...
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1064,58 zł |
Euripides Alcestis
ISBN: 9780199254668 / Angielski / Twarda / 2007 / 360 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Alcestis is one of Euripides' richest and most brilliant--as well as most controversial--plays. But, apart from D. J. Conacher's student text, no annotated edition in English has appeared for more than fifty years. The present work is designed to aid close reading and to serve as an introduction to the serious study of the play in its various aspects. The introduction covers the background to the story in myth and folktale, its treatment by other writers from antiquity to the present, the critical reception of Euripides' play, and its textual transmission and meters. The notes are designed in...
Alcestis is one of Euripides' richest and most brilliant--as well as most controversial--plays. But, apart from D. J. Conacher's student text, no anno...
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940,08 zł |
Shakespeare, Machiavelli, and Montaigne: Power and Subjectivity from Richard II to Hamlet
ISBN: 9780199257607 / Angielski / Twarda / 2003 / 304 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. The four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad and the slightly later Hamlet brilliantly explore interconnections between political power and interior subjectivity as productions of the newly emerging constellation we call modernity. Hugh Grady argues that for Shakespeare subjectivity was a critical, negative mode of resistance to power--not, as many recent critics have asserted, its abettor.
The four plays of Shakespeare's Henriad and the slightly later Hamlet brilliantly explore interconnections between political power and interior subjec...
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890,27 zł |
Theatre Censorship: From Walpole to Wilson
ISBN: 9780199260287 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 288 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Using previously unpublished material from the National Archives, David Thomas, David Carlton, and Anne Etienne provide a new perspective on British cultural history. Statutory censorship was first introduced in Britain by Sir Robert Walpole with his Licensing Act of 1737. Previously theatre censorship was exercised under the Royal Prerogative. By giving the Lord Chamberlain statutory powers of theatre censorship, Walpole ensured that confusion over the relationship between the Royal Prerogative and statute law would prevent any serious challenge to theatre censorship in Parliament until the...
Using previously unpublished material from the National Archives, David Thomas, David Carlton, and Anne Etienne provide a new perspective on British c...
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691,07 zł |
Aristophanes Thesmophoriazusae
ISBN: 9780199265275 / Angielski / Twarda / 2004 / 458 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 30 dni roboczych. Thesmophoriazusae was performed in Athens in 411 BCE, most likely at the City Dionysia, and is among the most brilliant of Aristophanes' eleven surviving comedies. It is the story of the crucial moment in a quarrel between the tragic playwright Euripides and Athens' women, who accuse him of slandering them in his plays and are holding a meeting at one of their secret festivals to set a penalty for his crimes. Thesmophoriazusae is a brilliantly inventive comedy, full of wild slapstick humor and devastating literary parody, and is a basic source for questions of gender and sexuality in late...
Thesmophoriazusae was performed in Athens in 411 BCE, most likely at the City Dionysia, and is among the most brilliant of Aristophanes' eleven surviv...
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1201,54 zł |
...And L. A. Is Burning
ISBN: 9780881455052 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 72 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A tender, quirky play about two white women and a black man living in Seattle in 1992, as the nation and the media are transfixed by the trial of four Los Angeles police officers accused in the beating of Rodney King and the outcry of protest after the verdicts. ..". an] unassuming gem ... A comedy with serious implications, Y York's neatly crafted play explores the impact of preconception and miscommunication upon a Seattle Environmental Protection Agency office worker, her black colleague and her new neighbor, an East Coast visitor researching a book on 'hidden prejudice' in America. The...
A tender, quirky play about two white women and a black man living in Seattle in 1992, as the nation and the media are transfixed by the trial of four...
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78,97 zł |
Hospitality
ISBN: 9780881455038 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 66 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An interrogation tale inspired loosely by the detention of Colombia's Patricia Lara in the mid-1980s. Two INS agents detain and try to break a Latin American journalist and a Brooklyn rabbi - both suspects believed to be involved with terrorist groups. The interrogations go very badly and the tables are turned against one of the INS agents. ..". To say that HOSPITALITY by Allan Havis betokens an auspicious beginning is an understatement of fairly large dimensions. Nearly everything about this production is first-rate. The script, an interrogation drama which brilliantly defeats the normally...
An interrogation tale inspired loosely by the detention of Colombia's Patricia Lara in the mid-1980s. Two INS agents detain and try to break a Latin A...
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78,97 zł |
Dark Part of the Forest
ISBN: 9780881455007 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 76 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Joan moves from the city to the country with her air traffic controller husband and their twelve-year-old daughter in search of peace and safety. Instead the move creates a growing sense of anxiety in Joan. When young girls begin to disappear, her anxieties are confirmed and the growing tension begins to tear apart the family. Interweaving fairytales with Joan's memories of her own sexual coming of age, DARK PART OF THE FOREST follows Joan back through her fears until she can emerge transformed. "Tammy Ryan should have called her new play 'The Dark Part of the Marriage' instead of the DARK...
Joan moves from the city to the country with her air traffic controller husband and their twelve-year-old daughter in search of peace and safety. Inst...
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78,97 zł |
Trafficking In Broken Hearts
ISBN: 9780881454987 / Angielski / Miękka / 2014 / 62 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. When Papo, a tough-talking Puerto Rican hustler from the Bronx, meets Brian, a frightened young lawyer from the Midwest, Papo begins to glimpse the possibility of a romantic escape from his life on the streets. At the same time, Bobby, a 17-year-old runaway who has been repeatedly raped by his older brother, offers to take care of Papo and moves in with him in his fleabag hotel room. It is then when Papo suddenly finds his defenses melting and his heart torn in two directions. TRAFFICKING IN BROKEN HEARTS is a gritty, urban love story. "Playwright Edwin Sanchez makes a promising New York...
When Papo, a tough-talking Puerto Rican hustler from the Bronx, meets Brian, a frightened young lawyer from the Midwest, Papo begins to glimpse the po...
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78,97 zł |
To Gillian On Her 37th Birthday
ISBN: 9780881454918 / Angielski / Miękka / 2002 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A grieving widower must accept his wife's death to save himself and his relationship with his daughter. David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, she died two years ago. David deals with his grief by continuing his romance with her "ghost" during walks on the beach at night. While David lives in the past, other family problems crop up in the present. Brother and sister-in-law Paul and Esther visit to try to help David's daughter, Rachel. She has lost her mother and needs her father to snap back into the real world for her sake. ..". Though TO GILLIAN begins as a simple dramatization of...
A grieving widower must accept his wife's death to save himself and his relationship with his daughter. David loves his wife, Gillian. Unfortunately, ...
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The Handless Maiden
ISBN: 9780881454826 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 80 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. Loosely based on a Grimm fairy tale, THE HANDLESS MAIDEN weaves together three stories, that of a miller and his wife who have fallen on hard times and whose story includes devils, wizards, and cross-country treks; that of an ambitious New York lawyer who decides to give it all up and travel to Seattle to see Bill Gates' mansion, her magic castle; and that of a man who is about to be married in Seattle but decides he must first see an old lover. Their stories ultimately converge in an enchanted diner. "Jeremy Dobrish's delightful new comedy combines a Grimm's fairy tale with two contemporary...
Loosely based on a Grimm fairy tale, THE HANDLESS MAIDEN weaves together three stories, that of a miller and his wife who have fallen on hard times an...
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78,97 zł |
Arrow To The Heart
ISBN: 9780881454796 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 60 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. An urban family of three is faced with a medical crisis upon a second financial crisis. Structured as a memory play, this story for four actors highlights the surfacing identify of a young man caught between filial loyalty and freedom. As the mother attends to both men, a domineering father is in free fall. "One young man's experience of grief and loss. A fraught father-son relationship, a tight mother-son bond. Nathan is lost and confused, trying to revisit and understand himself and the last twelve months of his life. His mother was erroneously diagnosed with cervical cancer. Heartache...
An urban family of three is faced with a medical crisis upon a second financial crisis. Structured as a memory play, this story for four actors highli...
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78,97 zł |
First Day Of School
ISBN: 9780881454802 / Angielski / Miękka / 2010 / 82 str. Termin realizacji zamówienia: ok. 13-18 dni roboczych. A sly, funny, twisted, and surreal sex farce in which the parents of schoolchildren ponder how to spend a day free from work and the duties of parenthood. "Good sex comedy should surprise you with how long it can keep its premise up and satisfying. By that measure, Billy Aronson's new farce, FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL, is a humdinger. But it gets A's in other departments too, like playing well with others, and having something interesting to say when the panting stops." -Avila, San Francisco Bay Guardian ..". the rapid fire of witty dialogue and never wasting an opportunity for laughter ... FIRST...
A sly, funny, twisted, and surreal sex farce in which the parents of schoolchildren ponder how to spend a day free from work and the duties of parenth...
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78,97 zł |