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Plays, playscripts
Paperback. A ghost summoned with bizarre rituals from the underworld, the elaborate protocol of the Persian court, a thrilling eye-witness account of the battle of Salamis - as the earliest surviving European drama it is of incalculable interest for students of ancient literature: as the only extended account of the Persian wars by an author who fought in .. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 280 pages, Illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 210 x 147 x 13. Weight in Grams: 284.
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1996
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780856685972
- ISBN
- 9780856685972
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 32.99€ 29.85
€ 32.99
€ 29.85
Paperback. Translator(s): Collard, Christopher. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 320 pages, 1 map. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 20. Weight in Grams: 236.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 320
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2008
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780199537815
- ISBN
- 9780199537815
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 10.99€ 9.67
€ 10.99
€ 9.67
Paperback. An accurate and highly readable new translation with introduction, extensive explanatory notes, and up-to-date bibliography of four of Aeschylus' plays, including the unique historical tragedy Persians and the hugely influential Prometheus Bound. Translator(s): Collard, Christopher. Series: Oxford World's Classics. Num Pages: 384 pages, 5 maps. BIC Classification: 3D; DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 154 x 173 x 23. Weight in Grams: 278.
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 384
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2009
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780192832825
- ISBN
- 9780192832825
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 12.13
€ 14.99
€ 12.13
Paperback. Editor(s): Dutta, Shomit; Goldhill, Simon. Num Pages: 352 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 23. Weight in Grams: 260.
- Publisher
- Penguin Books Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 352
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2004
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780141439365
- ISBN
- 9780141439365
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.44
€ 14.99
€ 11.44
Paperback. A king's decision to sacrifice his daughter and turn the tide of war inflicts lasting damage on his family, culminating in a terrible act of retribution. Editor(s): Stanford, W. Translator(s): Fagles, Robert. Num Pages: 336 pages, illustrations, notes, glossary, bibliog. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 197 x 131 x 15. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1977
- Edition
- Reprint
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140443332
- ISBN
- 9780140443332
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.99€ 13.00
€ 16.99
€ 13.00
Paperback. The great trilogy that is the wellspring of Western drama. Series: Drama Classics S. Num Pages: 128 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 160 x 105 x 8. Weight in Grams: 113.
- Publisher
- Nick Hern Books United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 128
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2007
- Edition
- New Ed
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781854591739
- ISBN
- 9781854591739
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 6.43
€ 6.43
Paperback. Deals with events from Athenian history, and depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis. This work shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, and relates the pursuit of the fifty daughters of Danaus by the fifty sons of Aegyptus, and their final rescue by a heroic king. Translator(s): Sommerstein, Alan H. Num Pages: 304 pages, maps. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 19. Weight in Grams: 230.
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Number of pages
- 304
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2010
- Edition
- 1st
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780140449990
- ISBN
- 9780140449990
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 14.99€ 11.44
€ 14.99
€ 11.44
Paperback. Aeschylus' Suppliant Women begins with a procession of girls, dressed in foreign costume and carrying boughs - tokens of supplication - arriving in Argos. Fugitives from Egypt they are in flight from their cousins, the sons of Aegyptus, who want them as wives and they seek asylum from King Pelasgus. Series: Aris & Phillips Classical Texts. Num Pages: 374 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 210 x 149 x 21. Weight in Grams: 510.
- Publisher
- Aris & Phillips Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 374
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- 1st Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781908343345
- ISBN
- 9781908343345
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 38.99€ 34.88
€ 38.99
€ 34.88
Paperback. Offers translations of Euripides' "Medea", "The Children of Heracles", "Andromache", and "Iphigenia among the Taurians", fragments of lost plays by Aeschylus, and the surviving portion of Sophocles' "The Trackers". In this title, introductions for each play offer information about its first production, plot, and reception in antiquity and beyond. Editor(s): Griffith, Mark; Most, Glenn W. Series Editor(s): Grene, David; Lattimore, Richmond. Series: Complete Greek Tragedies. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: DB; DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 136 x 212 x 13. Weight in Grams: 296.
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Number of pages
- 256
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Edition
- Third
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226311449
- ISBN
- 9780226311449
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.99€ 14.08
€ 15.99
€ 14.08
Paperback. After the Fall of Troy, King Agamemnon returns to Argos, a victor in war. Agamemnon depicts the hero's discovery that his family has been destroyed by his wife's infidelity and ends with his death at her callous hand. Clytemnestra's crime is repaid in The Choephori when her outraged son Orestes kills both her and her lover. Translator(s): Vellacott, Philip. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 13. Weight in Grams: 164. Good clean copy with some minor shelf wear.
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1973
- SKU
- KTG0010071
- ISBN
- 9780140440676
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 4.99
€ 4.99
Paperback. Aeschylus (525-456 BC) brought a new grandeur and epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the status of high art. This translation is accompanied by an introduction, with individual discussions of the plays, and their sources in history and mythology. Editor(s): Vellacott, Philip. Translator(s): Vellacott, Philip. Num Pages: 160 pages, notes. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 129 x 9. Weight in Grams: 124. Good clean copy with minor shelf wear
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2001
- Publisher
- Penguin Classics
- Condition
- Used, Very Good
- Edition
- Reprint
- SKU
- KKD0001050
- ISBN
- 9780140441123
Paperback
Condition: Used, Very Good
€ 17.95
€ 17.95
Paperback. Series: Dover Thrift Editions. Num Pages: 64 pages. BIC Classification: DD; DNF. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 209 x 137 x 4. Weight in Grams: 60.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2003
- Publisher
- Dover Publications Inc. United States
- Edition
- New edition
- Number of pages
- 64
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780486287621
- ISBN
- 9780486287621
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 5.74
€ 5.74
Paperback. Translator(s): Grene, David; O'Flaherty, Wendy Doniger. Num Pages: 262 pages. BIC Classification: 2AHA; DD; DSBB; DSG. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 140 x 216 x 20. Weight in Grams: 354.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1989
- Publisher
- The University of Chicago Press United States
- Edition
- Later Printing
- Number of pages
- 262
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780226007724
- ISBN
- 9780226007724
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 26.99€ 22.20
€ 26.99
€ 22.20
paperback. "What David Slavitt does, as the early Roman poets did, is to take a poem as his 'model' and make it his own by creating in late twentieth-century English an appropriate equivalent of the ancient poem. His Oresteia is the most lively and readable version known to me."-Gordon Williams Series: Penn Greek Drama Series. Num Pages: 178 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 213 x 145 x 11. Weight in Grams: 254.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1997
- Publisher
- University of Pennsylvania Press United States
- Number of pages
- 178
- Condition
- New
- Edition
- Revised ed.
- SKU
- V9780812216271
- ISBN
- 9780812216271
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 33.99€ 30.59
€ 33.99
€ 30.59
Paperback.
- Publisher
- Samuel French Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 80
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1954
- Edition
- Acting
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780573015229
- ISBN
- 9780573015229
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.27
€ 17.27
Paperback. Series: Acting Edition S. Num Pages: 40 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 184 x 89 x 3. Weight in Grams: 42.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 1963
- Publisher
- Samuel French Ltd United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 40
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9780573020049
- ISBN
- 9780573020049
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 16.03
€ 16.03
Paperback. A Tempest is Aime Cesaire's anti-colonialist retelling of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Translator(s): Crispin, Philip. Num Pages: 96 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 212 x 131 x 6. Weight in Grams: 94.
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2002
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC United Kingdom
- Number of pages
- 96
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781840021431
- ISBN
- 9781840021431
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 17.62
€ 17.62
Paperback. A play exploring language, globalisation, solidarity and class through the struggles of a young African mother trying to care for her child in Glasgow. Num Pages: 72 pages. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 206 x 127 x 5. Weight in Grams: 102.
- Publisher
- Oberon Books Ltd
- Number of pages
- 72
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2013
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781783190201
- ISBN
- 9781783190201
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 13.31
€ 13.31
Paperback. Series: Modern Plays. Num Pages: 112 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: DD. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 130 x 197 x 15. Weight in Grams: 100.
- Publisher
- Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
- Format
- Paperback
- Publication date
- 2016
- Edition
- 2nd Edition
- Condition
- New
- SKU
- V9781350028081
- ISBN
- 9781350028081
Paperback
Condition: New
€ 15.34
€ 15.34