Kategoria BISAC: Drama >> Ancient & Classical

Since the eighteenth century, classical scholars have generally agreed that the Greek playwright Aristophanes did not as a matter of course write "political" plays. Yet, according to an anonymous Life of Aristophanes, when Dionysius the tyrant of Syracuse wanted to know about the government of Athens, Plato sent him a copy of Aristophanes' Clouds.

In this boldly revisionist work, Michael Vickers convincingly argues that in his earlier plays, Aristophanes in fact commented on the day-to-day political concerns of Athenians. Vickers reads the first six of...

• First collection of its kind to provide introductory essays to the fragments of his lost plays and to the remaining fragments of one satyr-play, the Ichneutae, in addition to each of his extant tragedies
• Features new essays on Sophoclean drama that go well beyond the current state of scholarship on Sophocles
• Presents readings that historicize Sophocles in relation to the...

Unabridged English value reproduction of The Seagull by Anton Chekhov. This wonderfully complex drama of hopes, dreams, and love, has characters that resonate with readers in different ways reading after reading. 

One of the first plays to pioneer impressionistic realism, this beautifully blended tragic drama is provided to the reader in a slim volume with the full text at an affordable price.

What is the tragic in Euripides' Bacchae? A nowadays predominant view sees it in the self-reflexion of the genus 'tragedy' and the medium 'theatre': The presence of the theatre god Dionysos on stage turns the tragic of the Bacchae into metatragic. In contrast, by carefully scrutinizing the premises of structuralist methods applied and by interpreting the complete text of the play, Gyburg Radke reads the Bacchae as a 'textbook example' of an Aristotelian tragedy evoking fear and pity, in which the combination of the individual character of the protagonist Pentheus...

In der Reihe werden wichtige Neuausgaben und Kommentare zu Texten der griechisch-romischen Antike publiziert, insbesondere kommentierte Ausgaben nur fragmentarisch uberlieferter Texte. Ihrem umfassenden Charakter entsprechend leistet die Reihe einen wesentlichen Beitrag zur Erschlieung der antiken Literatur.

• Asserts a novel and controversial theory on the origins of rhetoric that differs radically from the standard view
• Argues that it was the theatre of Ancient Greece, first appearing around 500 BC, that prompted
• the development of formalized rhetoric, which evolved soon thereafter
• Provides a cogent reworking of existing evidence
• Reveals the bias and inconsistency of Aristotle