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Tragedy Clifford Leech · 1969 · 102p · ≈ 3h · Moderate Tarentum (Modern Day Taranto) believed to depict scenes from Greek tragedy: at left Electra and Orestes, who murder their mother Clytemnestra in order to avenge their father, Agamemnon; Clytemnestra was motivated by Agamemnon taking the princess Cassandra as concubine, and by Agamemnon sacrificing their daughter Iphigenia.At right is Oedipus and Antigone; Oedipus was abandoned as an infant and… Shares: Tragedies, Tragedy, Literary Criticism, Drama

Sophokles Sophocles · 1851 · 479p · ≈ 15h · Challenging This comprehensive eBook presents significant works of this famous and brilliant writer in one ebook - easy-to-read and easy-to-navigate: • Plays of Sophocles: Oedipus the King; Oedipus at Colonus; Antigone• Oedipus King of Thebes• The Seven Plays in English Verse• Antigone• Aias• King Oedipus• Electra• The Trachinian Maidens• Philoctetes• Specimens of Greek Tragedy — Aeschylus and Sophocles,… Shares: Tragedy, Criticism and interpretation, Drama

William Shakespeare Brian Vickers · 2002 · 564p · ≈ 18h · Moderate The Critical Heritage gathers together a large body of critical sources on major figures in literature. Each volume presents contemporary responses to a writer's work, enabling students and researchers to read for themselves, for example, comments on early performances of Shakespeare's plays, or reactions to the first publication of Jane Austen's novels. The carefully selected sources range from… Shares: Shakespeare, Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism, Drama

Euripides Erich Segal · 1968 · ★ 3.8 · 177p · ≈ 5h · Moderate TABLE OF CONTENTS: Euripides’ theater of ideas / William arrowsmith -- Euripides and the gods / G. M. A. Grube -- The virtues of Admetus / Anne Pippin Burnett -- On Euripides’ Medea / Eilhard Schlesinger -- The Hippolytus of Euripides / Bernard M. W. Knox -- Watching the Trojan women / Eric A. Havelock -- Why the Trojan women? / Jean-Paul Sartre -- Orestes / Christian Wolff -- Tragedy and… Shares: Critique et interprétation, Tragedy, Criticism and interpretation

Forster Malcolm Bradbury · 1966 · 180p · ≈ 6h · Moderate E.M. Forster's beloved novel of forbidden love, culture clash, and the confines of Edwardian society   Visiting Florence with her prim and proper cousin Charlotte as a chaperone, Lucy Honeychurch meets the unconventional, lower-class Mr. Emerson and his son, George. Upon her return to England, Lucy becomes engaged to the supercilious Cecil Vyse, but she finds herself increasingly torn… Shares: Critique et interprétation, Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

Heracles Euripides · 1876 · ★ 3.9 · 429p · ≈ 14h · Challenging Heracles Euripides - Euripides' Heracles is an extraordinary play, innovative in its treatment of the myth, bold in its dramatic structure, and filled with effective human pathos. The play tells a tale of horror: Heracles, the greatest hero of the Greeks, is maddened by the gods to murder his wife and children. But this suffering and divine malevolence are leavened by the friendship between… Shares: Tragedies, Tragedy, Criticism and interpretation, Drama

Post-colonial Shakespeares Ania Loomba · 1998 · 320p · ≈ 10h · Moderate This collection of new essays explores the multiple possibilities for the study of Shakespeare in an emerging post-colonial period. Post-Colonial Shakespeares examines the extent to which our assumption about such key terms as 'colonization', 'race' and 'nation' derive from early modern English culture. It also looks at how such terms are themselves affected by what were established subsequently… Shares: Shakespeare, Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism, Drama

George Bernard Shaw Gilbert Keith Chesterton · 1909 · ★ 3.7 · 94p · ≈ 3h · Challenging "Most people either say that they agree with Bernard Shaw or that they do not understand him. I am the only person who understands him, and I do not agree with him." -- G. K. C. Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism

Timon of Athens William Shakespeare · 1734 · ★ 3.5 · 101p · ≈ 3h · Demanding This book demonstrates events in the life of Timon, a man known for his great and universal generosity, who spends his fortune and then is spurned when he requires help. Shares: Tragedies, Shakespeare, Literary Criticism, Drama

The comedy of errors Robert S. Miola · 1997 · 592p · ≈ 19h · Moderate This collection of essays and reviews represents the most significant and comprehensive writing on Shakespeare's AComedy of Errors. Miola's edited work also features a comprehensive critical history, coupled with a full bibliography and photographs of major productions of the play from around the world. In the collection, there are five previously unpublished essays. The topics covered in these… Shares: Shakespeare, Literary Criticism, Drama

Titus Andronicus William Shakespeare · 1893 · 119p · ≈ 3h · Challenging Dismemberment, rape, cannibalism and murder make 'Titus Andronicus' Shakespeare's bloodiest tragedy. The boundless grief and savage justice of Titus explores the expression of tragic passion, the Senecan tradition, Roman history and government, the body and structures of interpretation. Shares: Tragedies, Criticism and interpretation, Drama

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

Shakespeare Survey Allardyce Nicoll · 1933 · 184p · ≈ 6h · Challenging "An annual survey of Shakespearian study and production." Shares: Critique et interprétation, Shakespeare, Criticism and interpretation, Drama

The plays of Euripides Euripides · 1602 · 64p · ≈ 2h · Demanding Euripides’ classic play, based on the myth of Jason and Medea, about a barbarian woman who retaliates against the husband who leaves her—here in the 1912 translation by Gilbert Murray into English rhyming verse. With explanatory notes. Shares: Tragedy, Criticism and interpretation, Drama

King Lear William Shakespeare · 1800 · 188p · ≈ 6h · Challenging Lear decides to abdicate and split his kingdom between his three daughters, Goneril, Regan and Cordelia. Cordelia refuses to flatter her father like her sisters and is banished. Goneril and Regan betray Lear who goes mad. Shares: Shakespeare, Drama

Pericles William Shakespeare · 1609 · ★ 3.5 · 87p · ≈ 2h · Demanding This book includes a general introduction to Shakespeare's life and Elizabethan theatre, a seperate introduction to Pericles, a chronology, suggestions for further reading, an essay discussing performance options on both stage and screen, and a commentary. Shares: Tragedies, Criticism and interpretation, Drama

La casa de Bernarda Alba Federico García Lorca · 1973 · 159p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Un título de nivel 4 de la serie Leer y aprender de lecturas graduadas. Adaptado para los estudiantes por D. Carpani. Una casa silenciosa, oscura. Calor asfixiante, campanas que doblan, secretos inconfesables. Un espacio cerrado, rígidamente controlado por Bernarda Alba, donde viven sus cinco hijas, las criadas y una madre anciana enajenada por su locura. A pesar de los esfuerzos de Bernarda, la… Shares: Criticism and interpretation, Literary Criticism, Drama

Cha guan She Lao · 1980 · 150p · ≈ 5h · Moderate Shares: Literary Criticism, Drama

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