pha - Plays & Playwrights 1

The Ancient Classics series provides eReaders with the wisdom of the Classical world, with both English translations and the original Latin and Greek texts. This comprehensive eBook presents the com……続きを見る

Eleven of his 40 plays survive virtually complete. These plays, provide the only real examples of a genre of comic drama known as Old Comedy, and they are in fact used to define the genre. Also know……続きを見る

Barney Simon (1932–1995) was the legendary artistic director, writer, and co-creator ofthe Market Theatre in Johannesburg, one of the most influential and distinguished theatres in South Africa and ……続きを見る

The master of ancient Greek comic drama, Aristophanes combined slapstick, humour and cheerful vulgarity with acute political observations. In The Frogs, written during the Peloponnesian War, Dionysu……続きを見る

The Birds is a comic play by the Greek playwright Aristophanes. It garnered awards in 141 BC when it was first performed, and continues to be critically received today. A middle-aged Athenian convin……続きを見る

The plays in this volume all contain Aristophanes' trademark bawdy comedy and dazzling verbal agility. In THE BIRDS, two frustrated Athenians join the birds to build the utopian city of 'Much Cuckoo……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: LA PAIX PREMIER ESCLAVE . Apporte, apporte au plus vite de la pâtée pour l’escarbot. SECOND ESCLAVE . Voici. Donne à ce maudit insecte ; jamais il n’aura mangé de meilleure pâtée. PREMIER E……続きを見る

EXTRAIT: Pisthétæros. En quel endroit de la terre sommes-nous ? je n’en sais rien. Evelpidès. D’ici, retrouverais-tu ta patrie, toi ? Pisthétæros. Non, de par Zeus ! pas plus qu’Exèkestidès. Evelpid……続きを見る

Ecclesiazusae (Greek: Ἐκκλησιάζουσαι Ekklesiazousai; translated as Assemblywomen, Congresswomen, Women in Parliament, Women in Power, and A Parliament of Women) is a play dating from 391 BC which is……続きを見る

The Wasps (Greek: Σφῆκες Sphēkes) is the fourth in chronological order of the eleven surviving plays by Aristophanes, the master of an ancient genre of drama called 'Old Comedy'. It was produced at ……続きを見る

The Knights (Ancient Greek: Ἱππεῖς Hippeîs; Attic: Ἱππῆς) was the fourth play written by Aristophanes, the master of an ancient form of drama known as Old Comedy. The play is a satire on the social ……続きを見る

The Clouds (Ancient Greek: Νεφέλαι Nephelai) is a comedy written by the celebrated playwright Aristophanes lampooning intellectual fashions in classical Athens. It was originally produced at the Cit……続きを見る

Reissue of Aristophanes' most famous plays in the Methuen Classical Greek Dramatists series Aristophanes is the oldest comedic writer in Western literature. Although only eleven of the some forty pl……続きを見る

The Birds is a comedic work by the Ancient Greek playwright Aristophanes. It was performed in 414 BC at the City Dionysia where it won second prize. It has been acclaimed by modern critics as a per……続きを見る

Ndiwe is Makoti - a new bride of the Mantshinga family. Madly in love and excited for her new life, she soon realises that not all is as it seems, in particular the strange, menacing family cat, Mad……続きを見る

When the Peloponnesian War goes on too long, the women of Athens, led by the beautiful Lysistrata, take matters into their own hands, withholding their passion as a way to force their men to negotia……続きを見る

The story of ‘Plutus’ concerns Chremylus, a poor but just man, who accompanied by his body-servant Cario, consults the Delphic Oracle concerning his son, whether he ought not to be instructed in inj……続きを見る

This Comedy, which was produced by its author the year after the performance of 'The Clouds,' may be taken as in some sort a companion picture to that piece. Here the satire is directed against the ……続きを見る

The 'Ecclesiazusae, or Women in Council,' was not produced till twenty years after the preceding play, the 'Thesmophoriazusae' (at the Great Dionysia of 392 B.C.), but is conveniently classed with i……続きを見る

From the fifth to the second century BC, innovative comedy drama flourished in Greece and Rome. This collection brings together the greatest works of Classical comedy, with two early Greek plays: Ar……続きを見る

Extrait : Que de fois j’ai été mordu au cœur ! Et de plaisirs bien peu, tout à fait peu ! Quatre ! Mais de douleurs, un amoncellement de sables à la hauteur des Gargares ! Voyons donc : qui m’a été ……続きを見る

Extrait : Les Chevaliers sont dirigés contre le démagogue Cléon qui s’était mis à la tête des affaires après la mort de Périclès, et qui, à la suite de son succès de Sphactérie, était devenu l’idole……続きを見る

Littérature antique, pièce de théâtre grec classique d’Aristophane (Aristophánês) Extrait : La scène est à Athènes, dans la maison de Philokléôn. L'action commence au point du jour. sosias Holà ! hé……続きを見る

Littérature antique, pièce de théâtre grec classique d’Aristophane (Aristophánês) Extrait : La scène est à Athènes, dans la maison de Philokléôn. L'action commence au point du jour. sosias Holà ! hé……続きを見る

Littérature antique, pièce de théâtre grec classique d’Aristophane (Aristophánês) Extrait : MNÉSILOKHOS O Zeus ! l’hirondelle, quand paraîtra-t-elle ? Cet homme me tuera en me mettant en mouvement d……続きを見る

Margaret Oliphant Wilson Oliphant (née Margaret Oliphant Wilson) (4 April 1828 – 25 June 1897), was a Scottish novelist and historical writer, who usually wrote as Mrs. Oliphant. Her fictional works……続きを見る

Agnese 16 anni. Rita 18 anni. Angela 20 anni. Sono le protagoniste della nostra storia. Tre giovani donne con lo stesso problema, decidere se far nascere o morire un figlio non voluto. Un incidente ……続きを見る

Le livre Cette pièce relate une étrange histoire marocaine : une famille ordinaire attend l'arrivée de la jeune mariée. Mais pas n'importe quelle mariée : Kenza a été violée par un des garçons, Ali.……続きを見る

Tahleho (The forsaken one) is a drama in Southern Sotho. Motse ke wa Mosikong. Ke ha tsatsi le hlahlamela dithaba. Bahlankana ba babedi ba lemong tsa ho nyala, Tahleho le Lehlohonolo ba robile monak……続きを見る

A woman named Lysistrata, determined to stop the senseless war, gathers women from all over Greece in the square in front of the Acropolis of Athens. She offers them „until the men make peace – do n……続きを見る