Phaedra and Other Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Phaedra and Other Plays write by Seneca. This book was released on 2011-08-25. Phaedra and Other Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Living in Rome under Caligula and later a tutor to Nero, Seneca witnessed the extremes of human behaviour. His shocking and bloodthirsty plays not only reflect a brutal period of history but also show how guilt, sorrow, anger and desire lead individuals to violence. The hero of Hercules Insane saves his own family from slaughter, only to commit further atrocities when he goes mad. The horrifying death of Astyanax is recounted in Trojan Women, and Phaedra deals with forbidden love. In Oedipus a nervous man discovers himself, while Thyestes recounts the bitter family struggle for a crown. Of uncertain authorship, Octavia dramatizes Nero's divorce from his wife and her deportation. The only Latin tragedies to have survived complete, these plays are masterpieces of vibrant, muscular language and psychological insight.
Phaedra and Other Plays
Phaedra and Other Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Phaedra and Other Plays write by Jean Racine. This book was released on . Phaedra and Other Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
Medea and Other Plays
Medea and Other Plays - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Medea and Other Plays write by Euripides. This book was released on 2003-03-27. Medea and Other Plays available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Alcestis/Medea/The Children of Heracles/Hippolytus 'One of the best prose translations of Euripides I have seen' Robert Fagles This selection of plays shows Euripides transforming the titanic figures of Greek myths into recognizable, fallible human beings. Medea, in which a spurned woman takes revenge upon her lover by killing her children, is one of the most shocking of all the Greek tragedies. Medea is a towering figure who demonstrates Euripides' unusual willingness to give voice to a woman's case. Alcestis is based on a magical myth in which Death is overcome, and The Children of Heracles examines conflict between might and right, while Hippolytus deals with self-destructive integrity. Translated by JOHN DAVIE
Phaedra's Love
Phaedra's Love - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Phaedra's Love write by Sarah Kane. This book was released on 2008-09-19. Phaedra's Love available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First single volume edition of this bold version of a classic by Sarah Kane Sarah Kane's radical reworking of Seneca's classical tragedy of incest and unrequited lust. Phaedra's Love is a bold and provocative revisioning of the story of Phaedra's obsessive and destructive love of her son Hippolytus and his violent punishment by Theseus.Kane's achievement is to have humanised the antics of the pounding royals. Her sulphurous dialgoue is full of reeking toughness' Evening Standard 'Sarah Kane's writing is both daring and accomplished' Time Out 'Pure theatre or rather impure theatre: dirty, alarming, dangerous' Observer 'delivered with punch and laced with black humour' Financial Times
Seneca's Phaedra
Seneca's Phaedra - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Seneca's Phaedra write by Lucius Annaeus Seneca. This book was released on 1987. Seneca's Phaedra available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle.
