Like his contemporary Pindar, Baccylides (c. 520-450 BC) composed songs of praise for princes and victorious athletes and songs for choral performances at religious festiv...
Похожие книги
Four Comedies
Plautus
The 'Contrast' was the first American play ever performed in public by a company of professional actors. Several plays by native authors had been previously published, the...
Во второй том произведений Аристофана включает в себя комедии "Птицы", "Лисистрата", "Женщины на празднике Фесмофорий", "Лягушки". "Женщины в народном собрании" и "Плутос".
В первый том произведений древнегреческого драматурга "отца комедии" Аристофана включены его комедии "Ахарняне", "Всадники", "Облака", "Осы", "Тишина (Мир)".
For many centuries, Aristotle's Physics was the essential starting point for anyone who wished to study the natural sciences
This book begins with an analysis of change...
The Taming of the Shrew
Robust and bawdy, The Taming of the Shrew captivates audiences with outrageous humor as Katharina, the shrew, engages in a contest of wills–and lo...
Chekhov's worldwide reputation as a dramatist rests on five great plays: Ivanov, The Seagull, Uncle Vanya, Three Sisters, and The Cherry Orchard. All are presented in this...
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, e...
What is tragedy? The Elizabethans defined it as a "lofty" play showing "personages of great state" caught up in a "lamentable" action that "beginneth prosperously and ende...
The contents of the books are as follows. Book 1: table of contents of the others and of authorities; 2: mathematical and metrological survey of the universe; 3-6: geograp...
Catullus, who lived during some of the most interesting and tumultuous years of the late Roman Republic, spent his short but intense life (?84-54 B.C.E.) in high Roman soc...
Because Chekhov’s plays convey the universally recognizable, sometimes comic, sometimes dramatic, frustrations of decent people trying to make sense of their lives, they r...
This authoritative edition was first published in the acclaimed Oxford Authors series under the general editorship of Frank Kermode. It brings together a unique combinatio...
Babrius is the reputed author of a collection (discovered in the 19th century) of more than 125 fables based on those called Aesop's, in Greek verse. He may have been a he...
The Rule of Three is a collection of the three one-act plays by Agatha Christie. A series of one-act plays involving murder, theft and deception at home and abroad.
In ...
It has been said that, after the Bible, Plato’s dialogues are the most influential books in Western culture. Of the dialogues, the Symposium is the most delightful and acc...
A universal favorite, The Importance of Being Earnest displays Oscar Wilde's wit and theatrical genius at their brilliant best. Subtitled 'A Trivial Comedy for Serious Pe...
Аристофан - самый яркий античный комедиограф - выдающееся и в своем роде уникальное явление мировой литературы. Обладая богатейшей фантазией и истинно аттическим остроумие...
Lyrical, powerful poems about love, sexuality, sun-soaked Greece and the gods.
Of all the classical poets Gaius Valerius Catullus (c. 84-54 BC) is the most accessible to the modern reader. Presented alongside the original Latin text, this new transla...