Greek & Roman 43

Reclaiming Greek Drama for Diverse Audiences features the work of Native-American, African-American, Asian-American, Latinx, and LGBTQ theatre artists who engage with social justice issues in seven ……続きを見る

LE MARCHAND LE SOLDAT FANFARON LE REVENANT LE PERSAN LE CARTHAGINOIS PSEUDOLUS LA CÂBLE STICHUS LES TROIS DENIERS LE BOURRU Les comédies de Plaute ne sont pas de nature à être mises dans toutes les ……続きを見る

AMPHITRYON L’ASINAIRE L'AULULAIRE LES BACCHIS LES CAPTIFS CASINA LA CASSETTE CHARANÇON ÉPIDIQUE LES MÉNECHMES Les comédies de Plaute ne sont pas de nature à être mises dans toutes les mains : ce n’e……続きを見る

Cenodoxus, ein angesehener Pariser Doktor, will Gott in seiner Vollkommenheit gleich werden. Der eitle Gelehrte verfällt seiner irdischen Ruhmsucht, bis ihm schließlich der himmlische Prozess gemach……続きを見る

A comedy about tragedy and a play about playmaking, Aristophanes' Frogs (405 BCE) is perhaps the most popular of ancient comedies. This new introduction guides students through the play, its themes ……続きを見る

Matthew Wright brings Menander's Samia to life by explaining how it achieves its comic effects and how it fits within the broader context of fourth-century Greek drama and society. He offers a scene……続きを見る

Écrit en 1611, "La Tempête" est souvent considérée comme le dernier travail que William Shakespeare a écrit par lui-même, sans collaboration. Au retour du mariage de la princesse Claribel avec le ro……続きを見る

Lysistrata, frustrated at the ongoing violence of the civil war, convinces the women of Athens to deny their husbands sex, until a treaty for peace has been signed. Aristophanes is astonishingly ahe……続きを見る

A new version of the classic French romantic comedy from Peter Oswald. Cursed with the looks of a clown, he weaves his secret longing into love letters of exquisite beauty that he will never dare to……続きを見る

Includes the monologues The Bull, The One Within, Somedays, The Last word and The Roykeaneiad A father denied access to his children, a footballer deserting his team, a terrorist lost in the politic……続きを見る

First performed in Paris in 1666, The Misanthrope is one of Molière's great comic masterpieces. Exasperated by the corruption of society, the cynical but noble Alceste wrestles with his love for the……続きを見る

High in the Caucasus at the ends of the earth, Prometheus is chained to a rock with a bolt through his chest. He talks of a secret that should not be told for fear of its power being lost. This secr……続きを見る

When her dead brother is decreed a traitor, his body left unburied beyond the city walls, Antigone refuses to accept this most severe of punishments. Defying her uncle who governs, she dares to say ……続きを見る

Includes the plays The Liar, The Illusion, Le Cid Pierre Corneille (1606–84), the great seventeenth-century neoclassical dramatist, wrote over thirty plays during his long and varied career. Triumph……続きを見る

L'Avare (1666) is Molière's great satire on materialism, a funny yet sophisticated story of cunning, guile and double-dealing, not only by the Miser himself, but also by the Miser's family and serva……続きを見る

Includes the plays Don Carlos and Mary Stuart Major historical upheavals of the Sixteenth Century illuminate Schiller's increasingly troubled reaction to the present in these two plays. The huge epi……続きを見る

Includes the plays The Robbers and Passion and Politics Two plays concerned with tyranny and freedom. Schiller's first play, The Robbers (1781), was written in great secrecy under the prison like co……続きを見る

The Murders at Argos retells the Oresteia story with Orestes and Electra as murderous teens. Cressida Among the Greeks takes place during the last days of the Trojan War. The story of the doomed lov……続きを見る

Includes the plays Britannicus, Phedra and Berenice Jean Racine is the greatest tragedian of the French seventeenth century, using its strict rules and conventions to tell stories of overwhelming pa……続きを見る

World premiere of a new version of Euripides’ classic Medea. Plays in London as part of the Almeida’s Greek Season. Medea’s marriage is breaking up. And so is everything else. Testing the limits of ……続きを見る

DumbWise reinvent the murderous Greek myth of power and prophecy as a lyrical modern epic with a live punk-rock score. A Queen masterminds the murder of her husband and takes the throne with her new……続きを見る

Includes the plays Joan of Arc and William Tell Two plays about historical characters whose fame has also raised them to the level of myth. In Joan of Arc (1801), Schiller allows his heroine a more ……続きを見る

Mike Poulton's all-new version of this dark and liberating play, co-conceived with choreographer Mark Bruce and director Braham Murray. Think Hair meets Titus Andronicus 続きを見る

In the year of the bicentenary of the death of Carlo Goldoni, one of Italy’s most brilliant dramatists, two of his greatest comedies are brought to life in Ranjit Bolt’s vibrant translations. The Ve……続きを見る

'Here at least we shall be free. Better to reign in Hell, than serve in Heaven...' Defeated in battle and exiled from heaven, Satan burns in a lake of fire with his army of rebels around him. Consum……続きを見る

Based on 20 previously untranslated fragments, this is a reconstruction of Euripides lost tragic comedy, Alcmaeon in Corinth, the third part of his final trilogy, with Bacchai and Iphigeneia in Auli……続きを見る

In classical mythology, Phaethon is the child of the sun god Helios, who tries to drive his father's chariot and is killed in the attempt. Euripides explains how this happened: Helios had seduced Ph……続きを見る

Carlo Goldoni was Italy's greatest playwright of the eighteenth century and wrote at least one hundred and fifty plays, although only a handful; of these have been performed since his time. Working ……続きを見る

'What I intend to do is wrong, but the rage of my heart is stronger than my reason – that is the cause of all men’s foulest crimes.' Medea is the archetypal wronged woman driven to despair. When unc……続きを見る

Gilgamesh is one of the most powerful men in Iraq. A king, a demi-God and a fearsome tyrant, he thrives on the shame and suffering of his subjects, robbing them of their innocence to fuel his lust. ……続きを見る