18 books like Birds

What to read after Birds — books similar to it, matched on shared themes.

Frogs Aristophanes · 1785 · ★ 3.8 · 114p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Among extant Greek comedies, the Frogs is unique for the light it throws on classical Greek attitudes to tragedy and to literature in general. It merits a much more extensive commentary than it has so far received, for the establishment of the text itself has rested for over a century on collations which were inadequate and inaccurate. At the same time, its most problematic passages have been the… Shares Dramatists, Dionysus, Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama

Lysistrata Aristophanes · 1872 · ★ 3.9 · 117p · ≈ 3h · Challenging In Aristophanes' most popular play, sex is a powerful agent of reconciliation. As war ravages ancient Greece, a band of women, led by Lysistrata, promise to deny their husbands all sex until they stop fighting. This volume of Lysistrata brings the play up to date with modern scholarship, providing an account of its history and containing new information about the comic theater and its social and… Shares Greece Peloponnesian War, Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama, Drama

Medea Euripides · 1703 · ★ 4.0 · 87p · ≈ 2h · Challenging "Medea has been betrayed. Her husband, Jason, has left her for a younger woman. He has forgotten all the promises he made and is even prepared to abandon their two sons. But Medea is not a woman to accept such disrespect passively. Strongwilled and fiercely intelligent, she turns her formidable energies to working out the greatest, and most horrifying, revenge possible." "Euripides' devastating… Shares Dionysus, Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama, Drama

Aeschyli Tragoediae Aeschylus · 1809 · 400p · ≈ 13h · Challenging Introduction in English Shares Greek drama, Drama

Ten plays Euripides · 1960 · ★ 4.1 · 358p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares Greek drama, Drama with this book.

Alcestis Euripides · 1818 · ★ 3.8 · 83p · ≈ 2h · Challenging "Euripides' Alcestic - perhaps the most anthologized Attic drama - is an ideal test for students reading their first play in the original Greek. Literary commentaries and language aids in most editions are too advanced or too elementary for intermediate students of the language, but in this new student edition, C. A. E. Luschnig and H. M. Roisman remedy such deficiencies." "The introductory… Shares Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama, Drama

Clouds Aristophanes · 1715 · 100p · ≈ 3h · Challenging The Catholic University of America Speech and Drama Department presents Aristophanes' "The Clouds," translated by William Arrowsmith, directed by Leo Brady, choral interpretation by Josephine McGarry Callan, setting and lighting by James D. Waring, costumes by Joseph Lewis. Shares Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama, Drama, History

Plays Aeschylus · 1828 · 339p · ≈ 11h · Challenging Shares Greek drama, Drama with this book.

Phoenician women Euripides · 1802 · ★ 3.7 · 229p · ≈ 7h · Challenging Shares Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama, Drama, History with this book.

Dead Men's Money Joseph Smith Fletcher · 1920 · ★ 3.7 · 212p · ≈ 7h · Moderate A mysterious one-eyed stranger, a midnight meeting at a lonely spot on the Scottish border, the secret password "Panama", and a corpse This is the situation Hugh Moneylaws, a young law clerk finds himself facing. Who murdered the man he was sent to meet, and why? With the only two men who knew the purpose of the meeting dead, it would seem a puzzle that would never be solved. Yet to save himself… Shares History

The Awful Secret

The Awful Secret Bernard Knight · 2006 · 356p · ≈ 11h · Moderate Shares History with this book.

Cyrano de Bergerac

Cyrano de Bergerac Edmond Rostand · 1897 · 192p · ≈ 6h · Challenging A Representation at the Hotel de Bourgogne. The hall of the Hotel de Bourgogne, in 1640. A sort of tennis-court arranged and decorated for a theatrical performance. The hall is oblong and seen obliquely, so that one of its sides forms the back of the right foreground, and meeting the left background makes an angle with the stage, which is partly visible. On both sides of the stage are benches.… Shares Drama

The Lady of the Rivers

The Lady of the Rivers Philippa Gregory · 2011 · ★ 4.0 The Lady of the Rivers tells the story of Jacquetta, daughter of the Count of Luxembourg, and kinswoman to half the royalty of Europe, who was married to the great Englishman John, Duke of Bedford, uncle to Henry VI. Widowed at the age of nineteen she took the extraordinary risk of marrying a gentleman of her house­hold for love, and then carved out a life for herself as Queen Margaret of Anjou's… Shares History

Frontier Stories Bret Harte · 1887 · 388p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Shares Social life and customs, History with this book.

Euripide Euripides · 1884 · 594p · ≈ 19h · Challenging Shares Greek drama, Drama with this book.

The complete plays of Sophocles Sophocles · 1967 · 261p · ≈ 8h · Moderate Oedipus the King - Antigone - Electra - AjaxTrachinian Women - Philoctetes - Oedipus at ColonusThe greatest of the Greek tragedians, Sophocles wrote over 120 plays, surpassing his older contemporary Aeschylus and the younger Euripides in literary output as well as in the number of prizes awarded his works. Only the seven plays in this volume have survived intact. From… Shares Greek drama, Drama

Euripides Euripides · 1597 · ★ 4.1 · 451p · ≈ 15h · Challenging In nine paperback volumes, the Grene and Lattimore editions offer the most comprehensive selection of the Greek tragedies available in English. Over the years these authoritative, critically acclaimed editions have been the preferred choice of over three million readers for personal libraries and individual study as well as for classroom use. Shares Dionysus, Great_books_of_the_western_world, Greek drama, Drama

The tragedies of Sophocles Sophocles · 1729 · 376p · ≈ 12h · Challenging Preface signed: Theodore Alois Buckley. Shares Greek drama, Drama

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