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Aeschylus: Agamemnon
Price:
CA$175.95
ISBN: 9781800856288
Pub Date: October 2024
The first revenge drama, the first great female role, the first tragedy set on the cusp between public space and private household, the first part of the only surviving tragic trilogy?the foundational...
Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris
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CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781837644315
Pub Date: July 2023
Iphigenia in Tauris tells the story of the princess Iphigenia who was sacrificed by her father Agamemnon to expedite his campaign against Troy but was rescued by the goddess Artemis and transported...
Scapegoat Carnivale's Tragic Trilogy
Euripides's Medea, Euripides's Bacchae, and Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus
Price:
CA$130.00
ISBN: 9780228016823
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Between 2010 and 2017 Scapegoat Carnivale presented new performances of Euripides’s Medea and Bacchae and Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus. This book reproduces Scapegoat’s adaptations and invites readers to encounter these texts, giving them the tools to better understand where they came from and their relevance in contemporary theatre and life.
Scapegoat Carnivale's Tragic Trilogy
Euripides's Medea, Euripides's Bacchae, and Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus
Price:
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780228017646
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Between 2010 and 2017 Scapegoat Carnivale presented new performances of Euripides’s Medea and Bacchae and Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus. This book reproduces Scapegoat’s adaptations and invites readers to encounter these texts, giving them the tools to better understand where they came from and their relevance in contemporary theatre and life.
Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama & Culture
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CA$60.95
ISBN: 9781845199593
Pub Date: July 2019
Magic and the supernatural are common themes in the philosophy and fiction of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. This book explores varieties of scepticism and belief exhibited by a selection of philosophers and playwrights, including Heinrich Cornelius Agrippa, Giordano Bruno, John Dee, Christopher Marlowe, and William Shakespeare.
Aeschylus: Libation Bearers
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CA$59.95
ISBN: 9781786940995
Pub Date: February 2018
The Libation Bearers of Aeschylus is the central tragedy of his Oresteia, one of the outstanding masterpieces of Greek literature. This edition, including text, translation and commentary, seeks to take full account of the latest advances in scholarship while making the play accessible to a wide range of readers
Antigone Undone
Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove, and the Art of Resistance
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CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780889775213
Pub Date: January 2018
Imprint: University of Regina Press
An urgent and mesmerizing account of the power of great art, Antigone Undone also offers an inside look at the creative processes of Anne Carson, Juliette Binoche, and Ivo van Hove.
Theater and Spectacle in the Art of the Roman Empire
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CA$70.95
ISBN: 9780801456886
Pub Date: August 2016
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Theater, spectacle, and performance played significant roles in the political and social structure of the Roman Empire, which was diverse in population and language. A wide and varied range of entertainment...
Roman Literary Cultures
Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle
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CA$89.00
ISBN: 9781442629677
Pub Date: May 2016
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature.
Acts of Compassion in Greek Tragic Drama
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CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780806151663
Pub Date: May 2016
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
In ancient Greece, the epics of Homer and the tragic dramas performed each spring in the Theater of Dionysus offered citizens valuable lessons concerning the necessity and proper application of compassionate action. This book is the first full-length examination of compassion (eleos or oiktos in Greek) as a dramatic theme in ancient Greek literature.
Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare
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CA$78.00
ISBN: 9781442647916
Pub Date: March 2016
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
In Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare, Ronald Huebert challenges these assumptions by marshalling evidence that it was in Shakespeare's time that the idea of privacy went from a marginal notion to a desirable quality.
Metropolitan Tragedy
Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England
Price:
CA$81.00
ISBN: 9781442648807
Pub Date: April 2015
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London's urban fabric and the city's judicial procedures.
The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell'Arte Stage
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CA$81.00
ISBN: 9781442649118
Pub Date: March 2015
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell'Arte Stage examines the emergence of the professional actress from the 1560s onwards in Italy.
Taking Exception to the Law
Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature
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CA$86.00
ISBN: 9781442642010
Pub Date: January 2015
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions.
Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala
The Comic Scenarios
Price:
CA$100.00
ISBN: 9781442648999
Pub Date: October 2014
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Schmitt demonstrates that the commedia dell'arte relied as much on craftsmanship as on improvisation and that Scala's scenarios are a treasure trove of social commentary on early modern daily life in Italy.
The Theban Plays
"Oedipus the Tyrant"; "Oedipus at Colonus"; "Antigone"
Price:
CA$28.95
ISBN: 9780801478710
Pub Date: January 2014
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Precise yet fluent translations of the timeless Theban tragedies.
Aeschylus: Agamemnon
CA$175.95
ISBN: 9781800856288
Pub Date: October 2024
Euripides: Iphigenia in Tauris
CA$67.95
ISBN: 9781837644315
Pub Date: July 2023
Scapegoat Carnivale's Tragic Trilogy
Euripides's Medea, Euripides's Bacchae, and Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus
CA$130.00
ISBN: 9780228016823
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Scapegoat Carnivale's Tragic Trilogy
Euripides's Medea, Euripides's Bacchae, and Sophocles's Oedipus Tyrannus
CA$39.95
ISBN: 9780228017646
Pub Date: April 2023
Imprint: McGill-Queen's University Press
Supernatural Fiction in Early Modern Drama & Culture
CA$60.95
ISBN: 9781845199593
Pub Date: July 2019
Aeschylus: Libation Bearers
CA$59.95
ISBN: 9781786940995
Pub Date: February 2018
The Libation Bearers of Aeschylus is the central tragedy of his Oresteia, one of the outstanding masterpieces of Greek literature. This edition, including text, translation and commentary, seeks to take full account of the latest advances in scholarship while making the play accessible to a wide range of readers
Antigone Undone
Juliette Binoche, Anne Carson, Ivo van Hove, and the Art of Resistance
CA$24.95
ISBN: 9780889775213
Pub Date: January 2018
Imprint: University of Regina Press
Theater and Spectacle in the Art of the Roman Empire
CA$70.95
ISBN: 9780801456886
Pub Date: August 2016
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Roman Literary Cultures
Domestic Politics, Revolutionary Poetics, Civic Spectacle
CA$89.00
ISBN: 9781442629677
Pub Date: May 2016
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Drawing on the historicizing turn in Latin literary scholarship, Roman Literary Cultures combines new critical methods with traditional analysis across four hundred years of Latin literature.
Acts of Compassion in Greek Tragic Drama
CA$47.95
ISBN: 9780806151663
Pub Date: May 2016
Imprint: University of Oklahoma Press
Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare
CA$78.00
ISBN: 9781442647916
Pub Date: March 2016
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
In Privacy in the Age of Shakespeare, Ronald Huebert challenges these assumptions by marshalling evidence that it was in Shakespeare's time that the idea of privacy went from a marginal notion to a desirable quality.
Metropolitan Tragedy
Genre, Justice, and the City in Early Modern England
CA$81.00
ISBN: 9781442648807
Pub Date: April 2015
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Breaking new ground in the study of tragedy, early modern theatre, and literary London, Metropolitan Tragedy demonstrates that early modern tragedy emerged from the juncture of radical changes in London's urban fabric and the city's judicial procedures.
The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell'Arte Stage
CA$81.00
ISBN: 9781442649118
Pub Date: March 2015
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
The Rise of the Diva on the Sixteenth-Century Commedia dell'Arte Stage examines the emergence of the professional actress from the 1560s onwards in Italy.
Taking Exception to the Law
Materializing Injustice in Early Modern English Literature
CA$86.00
ISBN: 9781442642010
Pub Date: January 2015
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Taking Exception to the Law explores how a range of early modern English writings responded to injustices perpetrated by legal procedures, discourses, and institutions.
Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala
The Comic Scenarios
CA$100.00
ISBN: 9781442648999
Pub Date: October 2014
Imprint: University of Toronto Press
Schmitt demonstrates that the commedia dell'arte relied as much on craftsmanship as on improvisation and that Scala's scenarios are a treasure trove of social commentary on early modern daily life in Italy.
The Theban Plays
"Oedipus the Tyrant"; "Oedipus at Colonus"; "Antigone"
CA$28.95
ISBN: 9780801478710
Pub Date: January 2014
Imprint: Cornell University Press
Precise yet fluent translations of the timeless Theban tragedies.