Sophokles, Vol. 2: Oedipus Tyrannos (Classic Reprint)
by Sophocles Sophocles
Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala (Toronto Italian Studies)
by Natalie Crohn Schmitt
The most important theatrical movement in sixteenth- and early seventeenth-century Europe, the commedia dell'arte has inspired playwrights, artists, and musicians including Moliere, Dario Fo, Picasso, and Stravinsky. Because of its stock characters, improvised dialogue, and extravagant theatricalism, the commedia dell'arte is often assumed to be a superficial comic style. With Befriending the Commedia dell'Arte of Flaminio Scala, Natalie Crohn Schmitt demolishes that assumption. By reconstructi...
Genealogy of the Tragic
by Assistant Professor of Classics and Humanities Joshua Billings
Le Théâtre au Japon: Contribution A l'Étude Comparée des Littératures (Classic Reprint)
by Alexandre Benazet
Geschichte des Griechischen und Römischen Dramas, Vol. 2: Die Griechische Komödie und das Drama der Römer (Classic Reprint)
by Julius Leopold Klein
Banquet des Savans, Vol. 2 (Classic Reprint)
by Athenee de Naucratis
The Towneley Plays: Re-Edited From the Unique Ms. (Classic Reprint)
by George England
Henrik Ibsen: Étude sur Sa Vie Son Oeuvre; Avec le Port, d'Ibsen (Classic Reprint)
by Charles Sarolea
The Tragedies of Euripides, Vol. 1 of 3: In English Verse (Classic Reprint)
by Arthur S Way
Speech in Speech (Greek Studies: Interdisciplinary Approaches)
by Victor Bers
Speech in Speech explores the techniques by which Classical Greek texts written primarily for public performance weave in direct quotations (oratio recta) of "other voices"-imagined or real. This "speech in speech" is usually perceived as endowed with a greater vividness and authenticity than indirect quotation, even when the words report what someone might say, or enliven the verbal texture of plays and speeches, and examines the intricate relation of direct quotations to their "originals". As...
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