Product Description: Six wide ranging classic plays with introduction by the editorThe comedies of the Athenian theatre not only lie at the root of Western drama, they also offer a unique insight into everyday life in ancient Greece. This selection of six wide ranging plays includes the comic fantasies of Aristophanes, which combine the ridiculous with serious satirical comment (Birds, Frogs, Women in Power); Menander's The Woman from Samos, a recognisable forebear of today's situation comedy; Euripides ribald satyr play, Cyclops, the only surviving example of the genre, and his Alkestis, a complex romance which gave a new face to comedy...read more

Product Description: Kenneth McLeish's definitive translations of the most successful French dramatist of the Belle EpoqueGeorges Feydau (1862-1921) was the most successful French dramatist of the belle epoque and is now widely regarded as one of the greatest of farce-writers...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: First Published in 1995. Routledge is an imprint of Taylor & Francis, an informa company.

Product Description: McLeish's new verse play, a twenty-first century interpretation of the ancient myth of Orpheus.

Synopsizes each play, describes main characters, notes historical sources, and offers a brief critical essay on each play

Product Description: The Penn Greek Drama Series presents original literary translations of the entire corpus of classical Greek drama: tragedies, comedies, and satyr plays. It is the only contemporary series of all the surviving work of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes, and Menander. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Features over 2,500 entries detailing the origins and historical significance of individual myths and legends, as well as myth tradition from every continent

Brief essays discuss more than two thousand concepts in art, science, economics, history, and philosophy, from absolute advantage and allegory to Turing machines, and wave-particle duality

Product Description: Contains a description of each piece of classical music and its context, the society and occasion for which it was written and a biography panel on the background of each composer. The book is designed to encourage readers to move from more popular to more obscure pieces of music...read more

Product Description: An essential book for students of Greek drama and literature: Aristophanes is widely regarded as one of Ancient Greece's foremost satirists - offering students of the period a unique insight into the world of Athens and its theatreWritten in the century following the defeat of Athens by the Spartans in the Peloponnesian War, these four plays signal a change of emphasis in stage comedy more appropriate to the new world order of the fourth century BC...read more

Explores the universal beliefs and mysteries of the world religions as expressed in their mythology and legends

Product Description: "Meeting Shakespeare's characters is like strolling through a small but populous town, being introduced to every single inhabitant: over a thousand people, from countesses to constables, gallants to gamekeepers, friars to whores....read more

Offers brief profiles of one hundred composers, describes the major works of each individual, and suggests which pieces to listen to first