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Sophocles, 2 : King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Penn Greek Drama Series)

2 reviews
Sophocles, Jascha Kessler, ...

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998

from the layman
I am very interested in studying ancient greek drama, but I have a dilema - I am NOT studying in school, but rather on my own. This Penn series is VERY readable for the average American and leaves absolutely no ambiguity. The other reviewer does make good points about the translation being too modern and not literal enough. (I recall one line where Creon asks his son if he has been ...

'Plautus : The Comedies (Complete Roman Drama in Translation) Vol. 1

1 review

The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1995

Plautus: The Original Comic Genius
This is definitely worth the purchase if you are at all a fan of European Theatre. The plays of Plautus inspired many others, including Shakespeare's Comedy of Errors. Thus, any fan of the theatrical world would be missing out if they did not check out this book of the wildly irreverent, slapstick style writing of Plautus.

Emergence

46 reviews
David R. Palmer

Spectra, 1984

Extraordinary.
First read this in high school; borrowed from library. Captivating then; memories of first read motivated search for own copy. Found used on Amazon; purchased; enjoyed repeatedly. Just as good on second, third, fourth reads, etc. Fell in love with Candy, also with author's unique use of language. Have now read first two parts of serialized sequel ("Seeking," to be published as novel soon); ...

Aristophanes, 1 : The Acharnians, Peace, Celebrating Ladies, Wealth (Penn Greek Drama Series)

4 reviews
Aristophanes, Fred Beake, ...

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998

Ribald and Raucous
Aristophanes was a ribald playwright whose raucous plays were brilliantly brought to life by Fred Beake, David Slavitt, Palmer Bovie, and Jack Flavin. The first two of the four plays in Aristophanes, 1, The Acharnians and Peace were written during the Peloponnesian War between Athens, Sparta, and their allies. It was a terrible war consuming all of Greece, and Aristophanes was one of the first ...

Threshold

21 reviews
David R. Palmer

New English Library, 1987

Another look at the Lensmen series
Theshold operates on a number of different levels (and does so very well). On the surface, it is a very good adventure novel with a main character that is truely the best of the best. It also stands as a good introduction to a series while not losing it's value as a stand alone book (which is a good thing since we may never see any further books in this series). On a third level, it is ...

After Hitchcock: Influence, Imitation, and Intertextuality

University of Texas Press, 2006

Alfred Hitchcock is arguably the most famous director to have ever made a film. Almost single-handedly he turned the suspense thriller into one of the most popular film genres of all time, while his Psycho updated the horror film and inspired two generations of directors to imitate and adapt this most Hitchcockian of movies. Yet while much scholarly and popular attention has focused on the director's oeuvre, until now there has been no ...

After Hitchcock
David (EDT)/ Palmer, R. Barton (EDT) Boyd

Univ of Texas Pr, 2006

Euripides, 1: Medea, Hecuba, Andromache, the Bacchae (Penn Greek Drama Series) (Penn Greek Drama Series)

2 reviews
Euripides, Slavitt David R, ...

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998

a return to classics
I went to Columbia, with the most prominent 'great books' curriculum still in existence. 25 years later, I'm finding myself re-reading and discussing many of the titles. The Penn Greek Drama series is a handsome library of new translations that give fresh takes on the classics. It's useful to have Euripides on the shelf when you return home from the recent bravura performance by Fiona Shaw as ...

Sophocles, 1 : Ajax, Women of Trachis, Electra, Philoctetes (Penn Greek Drama Series)

2 reviews
Sophocles, Henry Taylor, ...

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998

A great success!
This rather experimental work attempts to translate classics into the modern American language - not just the concrete meaning of the words, but the abstract meaning as well, which is always derived from the entirety of the particular culture. As such, these translations are a monumental undertaking in making ancient Greeks speak to us directly, without the traditional use of modern rhyming or ...

Menander : The Grouch, Desperately Seeking Justice, Closely Cropped Locks, the Girl from Samos, the Shield ...

2 reviews
Athens Menander

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998

a new approach to Menander
The editors wanted to make the comic drama come alive for a new audience....the goal was to use the complete Dyskolos (Grouch) and reconstruct the fragments of survivng plays by using as models copies by Terence and Plautus and fragments of other plays by Menander to give the sense of what New Comedy was and how it influenced the comedy of generations to come.

Aristophanes, 1: The Acharnians, Peace, Celebrating Ladies, Wealth (Penn Greek Drama Series)
Aristophanes, David R. Slavitt, ...

University of Pennsylvania Press, 1998

Aristophanes wrote most of his comedic masterpieces during the Peloponnesian wars, parodying the tumultuous politics and society of that time with trademark innuendoes and bawdy stagings and dialogue. In these plays, Aristophanes brings every rhetorical strategem into play to treat the reader to stories of one man's attempt to create a "war-free zone", the rescue of the imprisoned Peace on the back of a giant dung beetle, a satire of Euripides's ...

The Clinical Handling of Dental Materials
Bernard G. N. Smith, Paul S. Wright, ...

Butterworth-Heinemann, 1996

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