America's Lost Plays, Vol. III: Glalucus and Other Plays
America's Lost Plays, Vol. III: Glalucus and Other Plays

Author: Henry George Boker

Publisher: Wildside Press LLC

Published: 2019-05-09

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 1479443468

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This series collects the complete scripts of 100 selected, previously unpublished plays by 19th-Century American playwrights. Volume 3 features George Henry Boker, with "The World a Mask," "Glaucus," and "The Bankrupt."

The Persians and Other Plays
The Persians and Other Plays

Author: Aeschylus

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2009-11-26

Total Pages: 249

ISBN-13: 0141955899

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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. The Persians, the only Greek tragedy to deal with events from recent Athenian history, depicts the final defeat of Persia in the battle of Salamis, through the eyes of the Persian court of King Xerxes, becoming a tragic lesson in tyranny. In Prometheus Bound, the defiant Titan Prometheus is brutally punished by Zeus for daring to improve the state of wretchedness and servitude in which mankind is kept. Seven Against Thebes shows the inexorable downfall of the last members of the cursed family of Oedipus, while The Suppliants relates the pursuit of the fifty daughters of Danaus by the fifty sons of Aegyptus, and their final rescue by a heroic king.

A History of Greek Literature
A History of Greek Literature

Author: Albin Lesky

Publisher: Hackett Publishing

Published: 1996-01-01

Total Pages: 952

ISBN-13: 9780872203501

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"First published as Geschichte der Griechischen Literatur by Francke Verlag, Bern"--T.p. verso.

Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play
Elizabethan Narrative Poems: The State of Play

Author: Lynn Enterline

Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing

Published: 2019-07-11

Total Pages: 258

ISBN-13: 1350073377

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Tracing the development of narrative verse in London's literary circles during the 1590s, this volume puts Shakespeare's Venus and Adonis and The Rape of Lucrece into conversation with poems by a wide variety of contemporary writers, including Thomas Lodge, Francis Beaumont, Christopher Marlowe, Thomas Heywood, Thomas Campion and Edmund Spenser. Chapters investigate the complexities of this literary conversation and contribute for the current, vigorous reassessment of humanism's intended consequences by drawing attention to the highly diverse forms of early modern classicism as well as the complex connection between Latin pedagogy and vernacular poetic invention. Key themes and topics include: -Epyllia, masculinity and sexuality -Classicism and commerce -Genre and mimesis -Rhetoric and aesthetics