A Doll's House and Other Plays by Henrik Ibsen; Peter Watts (translator)
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Delivering three distinct and powerful visions of characters who choose to defy convention in the pursuit of happiness, Henrik Ibsen's A Doll's House and Other Plays is translated with an introduction by Peter Watts in Penguin Classics. The League of Youth was Ibsen's first venture into realistic social ...Show more
Medea and Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without ref ...Show more
Medea And Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
Four plays which exemplify his interest in flawed, characters who defy the expectations of Greek society The four tragedies collected in this volume all focus on a central character, once powerful, brought down by betrayal, jealousy, guilt and hatred. The first playwright to depict suffering without ref ...Show more
The Bacchae And Other Plays by Euripides
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. "Phoenician Women" portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation, whi ...Show more
Lysistrata and Other Plays by Aristophanes
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: good-very good
Three plays by the comedian of Ancient Greece Writing at the time of political and social crisis in Athens, Aristophanes was an eloquent yet bawdy challenger to the demagogue and the sophist. The Achanians is a plea for peace set against the background of the long war with Sparta. In Lysistrata a band ...Show more
The Birds and Other Plays by Aristophanes
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Penguin Classics Ser. | Reading Level: very good
Offering a window into the world of ordinary Athenians, Aristophanes' The Birds and Other Plays is a timeless set of comedies, combining witty satire and raucous slapstick to wonderful effect. This Penguin Classics edition is translated from the Greek by David Barrett and Alan H. Sommerstein. The plays ...Show more
The Oresteia by Aeschylus, Robert Fagles (trans.)
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Penguin Classics | Reading Level: very good
In 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 civilized institution, their spirit of struggle and regeneration becomes an everlasting song of celebra ...Show more
Pygmalion by Bernard Shaw
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
Pygmalion both delighted and scandalized its first audiences in 1914. A brilliantly witty reworking of the classical tale of the sculptor Pygmalion, who falls in love with his perfect female statue, it is also a barbed attack on the British class system and a statement of Shaw's feminist views. In Shaw' ...Show more
The Right to Speak: Working with the Voice by Patsy Rodenberg
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance | Series: Performance Books
This bestselling book by one of the world's foremost voice and acting coaches is a classic in its field. Practical, passionate and inspiring, it teaches how to sue the voice fully and expressively, without fear and in any situation. "Even a short experience of working with Patsy Rodenburg brings strikin ...Show more
Talking Heads by Alan Bennett
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Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
Alan Bennett sealed his reputation as the master of observation with this series of 12 groundbreaking monologues, originally filmed for BBC Television. At once darkly comic, tragically poignant and wonderfully uplifting, "Talking Heads" is widely regarded as a modern classic. This new edition, which con ...Show more