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Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King) [Tra...

Sophocles

Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King) [Translated by E. H. Plumptre with an Introduction by John Williams White]

The second Theban play written by Sophocles, “Oedipus Rex,” or “Oedipus the King,” is the drama which chronologically begins the Oedipus cycle. After Laius, King of Thebes, learns from an oracle that he is doomed to perish by the hand of his own son, he binds the feet of his newborn child and orders his wife Jocasta to kill the infant. Unable to kill her own child, Jocasta entrusts a servant with the task instead, who takes the baby to a mountaintop to die of exposure. A passing shepherd rescues...

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Antigone

Sophocles

Antigone

In his long life, Sophocles (born ca. 496 B.C., died after 413) wrote more than one hundred plays. Of these, seven complete tragedies remain, among them the famed Oedipus Rex and Oedipus at Colonus. In Antigone, he reveals the fate that befalls the children of Oedipus. With its passionate speeches and sensitive probing of moral and philosophical issues, this powerful drama enthralled its first Athenian audiences and won great honors for Sophocles.The setting of the play is Thebes. Polynices, son...

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Antigone

Sophocles

Antigone

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Характеры

Теофраст

Характеры

Ученые записки ЛГУ № 63 Серия филологических наук, вып. 7 1941 г.

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Much Ado About Nothing

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Much Ado About Nothing

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Richard III

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Richard III

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The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, O...

Sophocles

The Three Theban Plays: Antigone, Oedipus the King, and Oedipus at Colonus (Translated by Francis Storr with Introductions by Richard C. Jebb)

Sophocles, along with Aeschylus and Euripides, is considered one of three important ancient Greek tragedians. Writing during the 5th century BC, Sophocles created some one hundred and twenty three plays during his lifetime, of which only seven have survived in their entirety. In this edition are included the three “Theban” plays, which are widely considered his most important works. This collection of dramas includes “Antigone” the story of its title character, a strong heroine whose complete...

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Taming of the Shrew

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Taming of the Shrew

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The Persistence of Allegory

Jane K. Brown

The Persistence of Allegory

In an impressively comparative work, Jane K. Brown explores the tension in European drama between allegory and neoclassicism from the sixteenth through the nineteenth century. Imitation of nature is generally thought to triumph over religious allegory in the Elizabethan and French classical theater, a shift attributable to the recovery of Aristotle's Poetics in the Renaissance. But if Aristotle's terminology was rapidly assimilated, Brown demonstrates that change in dramatic practice...

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Jane K. Brown

Этика. Мудрость – самая точная из н...

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Этика. Мудрость – самая точная из наук

Люди издревле не только размышляли о том, «что такое хорошо и что такое плохо», но и стремились закрепить результаты этого анализа в четких формулировках, отражающих этические нормы. Как стать полезным членом общества? Как избежать порока? Какое значение в жизни человека имеет дружба? Эти и многие другие вопросы подняты в неустаревающем сочинении великого философа. В формате a4.pdf сохранен издательский макет.

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Аристотель

Александр Македонский

Диодор Сицилийский

Александр Македонский

Биография одного из величайших полководцев в изложении известного античного историка, серьёзно относившегося к достоверности своих трудов.

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Жанр	Биографии и Мемуары, Античная литература

Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King)

Sophocles

Oedipus Rex (Oedipus the King)

The first drama in the Oedipus Trilogy, «Oedipus Rex», is the tragic tale of Oedipus who has accidentally killed his father and married his mother. One of the most widely read of all Greek tragedies, «Oedipus Rex», stands as one of not only the greatest dramas from classical antiquity but as one of the greatest dramas of all time. Its influence on literature and theatre cannot be overstated and it is as compelling today as when it was first performed.

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Лирика

Солон

Лирика

Солон — афинский государственный деятель и поэт начала VI в.; он интересен тем, что использует поэзию как воспитательное, агитационное средство для пропаганды своих социальных реформ.

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Cinematic Hamlet

Patrick J. Cook

Cinematic Hamlet

Hamlet has inspired four outstanding film adaptations that continue to delight a wide and varied audience and to offer provocative new interpretations of Shakespeare’s most popular play. Cinematic Hamlet contains the first scene-by-scene analysis of the methods used by Laurence Olivier, Franco Zeffirelli, Kenneth Branagh, and Michael Almereyda to translate Hamlet into highly distinctive and remarkably effective films. Applying recent developments in neuroscience and psychology, Patrick J....

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Patrick J. Cook

Macbeth

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Macbeth

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Selected Plays

Plautus

Selected Plays

This collection of plays captures the comedic genius of Plautus, one of the most important playwrights from classical Roman antiquity. Plautus adapted most of his plays from earlier Greek stories, making him essential in helping to preserve the history and integrity of Greek theatre. What makes Plautus extraordinary, though, is that he kept the essence of the Greek shows while evolving the language to fit contemporary Roman tastes. He refused to let the renovations of the story be compromised by...

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Plautus

Medea

Euripides

Medea

The <I>Medea </I>of Euripides is one of the greatest of all Greek tragedies and arguably the one with the most significance today. A barbarian woman brought to Corinth and there abandoned by her Greek husband, Medea seeks vengeance on Jason and is willing to strike out against his new wife and family—even slaughtering the sons she has born him. At its center is Medea herself, a character who refuses definition: Is she a hero, a witch, a psychopath, a goddess? All that can...

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Euripides

Henry V (Annotated by Henry N. Huds...

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Henry V (Annotated by Henry N. Hudson with an Introduction by Charles Harold Herford)

Believed to have been written in 1599, William Shakespeare’s “Henry V” forms the final installment of a tetralogy of plays which includes “Richard II”, “Henry IV, Part I”, and “Henry IV, Part II”. The play focuses on the events surrounding the Battle of Agincourt during the Hundred Years’ War. Henry, who is introduced in the earlier plays as a wild and undisciplined youth, has now come of age and ascended to the thrown following the death of his father, King Henry IV. At the outset of the play...

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Гиппарх

Ксенофонт

Гиппарх

«Гиппарх» – произведение древнегреческого писателя, историка и политического деятеля Ксенофонта (др.-греч. Ξενοφών; 430 до н. э. – 356 до н. э.).*** «Гиппарх» – эссе Ксенофонта, в котором он дает наставления гиппарху – главному командиру афинской кавалерии – о том, как улучшить конницу. Трактат состоит из девяти глав, каждая из которых – конкретное указание командиру и объяснение причин необходимости следовать этому предписанию. Среди главных правил: как молиться богам, как ухаживать за...

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Ксенофонт

Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Trag...

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Classic BBC Radio Shakespeare: Tragedies

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Romeo and Juliet

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Romeo and Juliet

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King John

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King John

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