Product Description: Howard Rubenstein's play is an adaptation from the French of the classical play by Jean Racine. Rubenstein's version is in standard American English in free verse, which gives a general and modern English-speaking audience access to one of the world's great plays.

Product Description: TONY and CLEO is a play in two acts that tells the story of Mark Antony and Cleopatra's love affair based on historical sources. It begins in Rome in 44 BCE just before Julius Caesar's assassination and ends in Alexandria in 30 BCE right after the fall of that great city and Tony and Cleo's suicides...read more

Product Description: The play "Brothers All" is based on Dostoyevsky's novel "The Brothers Karamazov," but it is not a dramatization of it. Confining itself to the main plot along with its psychological, religious, and political issues, it is a tour de force of intellectual ideas and wry humor, revealing the human condition in a startling way...read more

Product Description: This is the Second Edition of Howard Rubenstein's acclaimed translation of AGAMEMNON. It is faithful to the original Greek and rendered with clarity into modern yet beautiful American English. It is unique among translations of ancient works in providing stage directions, which are consistent with the text...read more

Product Description: Euripides' THE TROJAN WOMEN is considered by many to be the greatest of anti-war plays. Rubenstein, whose translation of AGAMEMNON, has been acclaimed, has now translated Euripides' masterpiece in clear American English. Aristophanes and Aristotle (and some modern critics as well) objected to the original prologue and choral odes on the grounds that they were irrelevant to the play...read more

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