Join us on a literary world trip!
Add this book to bookshelf
Grey
Write a new comment Default profile 50px
Grey
Subscribe to read the full book or read the first pages for free!
I want to read the book!
All characters reduced
The Electra of Euripides - Translated into English rhyming verse - cover

The Electra of Euripides - Translated into English rhyming verse

Euripides

Translator Gilbert Murray

Publisher: Good Press

  • 0
  • 0
  • 0

Summary

Euripides' 'The Electra of Euripides' is a Greek tragedy that delves into themes of vengeance, justice, and loyalty. Written in the 5th century B.C., this play showcases Euripides' innovative approach to drama, characterized by its psychological depth and moral complexity. The dialogue is sharp and poignant, with vivid imagery that brings the characters to life on the ancient Greek stage. Euripides' depiction of Electra's struggle for retribution against her mother and stepfather is both timeless and timeless, offering a thought-provoking exploration of the human psyche. This play is a masterpiece of classical literature, showcasing the enduring power of Greek tragedy. Euripides, one of the great tragedians of ancient Greece, was known for his radical ideas and unconventional characters. His works often challenged traditional views on morality and religion, earning him both critical acclaim and controversy. 'The Electra of Euripides' is a prime example of his innovative storytelling and profound insight into the human condition. I recommend 'The Electra of Euripides' to readers interested in classical literature, Greek tragedy, and the complexities of human nature. This timeless play will captivate and provoke thought long after the final curtain falls.
Available since: 11/25/2019.
Print length: 145 pages.

Other books that might interest you

  • The Admirable Crichton - cover

    The Admirable Crichton

    J. M. Barrie

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    From the author of Peter Pan: 
 
Lord Loam, a British peer, considers class divisions to be artificial. He promotes his views during tea-parties where servants mingle with his aristocratic guests, to the embarrassment of all. Crichton, his butler, particularly disapproves of this. 
 
Loam, his family, a maid, and Crichton are shipwrecked on a deserted tropical island. The resourceful Crichton is the only one of the party with any practical knowledge. Eventually, social roles are reversed, and Crichton becomes the governor. (Intro from Wikipedia & TriciaG) 
 
Cast (in order of appearance) 
Storyteller/Stage Directions: TriciaGErnest Woolley: AnthonyCrichton: Algy PugLady Agatha Lasenby: Arielle LipshawLady Catherine Lasenby: Tina NuzziLady Mary Lasenby: Elizabeth KlettMr. Treherne: Ernst PattynamaLord Loam: Paul AndrewsLord Brocklehurst: DerekPMonseur Fleury: Beverly ScottMiss Fisher: KalyndaMr. Tompsett & Naval Officer: Bill MosleyTweeny: BumbleVeeLady Brocklehurst: Michelle R. WoodAudio edited by: TriciaG
    Show book
  • Please make me pretty I don't want to die - Poems - cover

    Please make me pretty I don't...

    Tawanda Mulalu

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    The debut collection of an exciting new voice in poetryPlease make me pretty, I don't want to die explores tactility, sound, sensuality, and intimacy. Set across the four seasons of a year, these fresh and original poems by Tawanda Mulalu combine an inviting confessional voice and offbeat imagery, and offer an appealing mixture of seriousness and humor.The speaker of these poems probes romantic and interracial intimacy, the strangeness and difficulty of his experiences as a diasporic Black African in White America, his time working as a teacher's assistant in a third-grade classroom, and his ambivalent admiration for canonical poets who have influenced him, especially Sylvia Plath. Juxtaposing traditional forms such as sonnets and elegies with less orthodox interjections, such as prose-poem "prayers" and other meditations, the collection presents a poetic world both familiar and jarring—one in which history, the body, and poetry can collide in a single surprising turn of image: "The stars also suffer. Immense and dead, their gasses burn / distant like castanets of antebellum teeth. My open window / a synecdoche of country."
    Show book
  • O Captain! My Captain! - cover

    O Captain! My Captain!

    Walt Whitman

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    LibriVox volunteers bring you 18 recordings of "O Captain! My Captain!" This was the Weekly Poetry for the week of August 17, 2014."O Captain! My Captain!" is an elegy for Abraham Lincoln written by Walt Whitman, who worked as a clerk and army hospital nurse during the Civil War. The Captain of the poem is Lincoln, and the ship represents the United States, brought safely through the storm of war. In the poem, Whitman juxtaposes the people's joy at the end of the war with his grief at the assassination of the President. (Summary by Laurie Anne Walden)
    Show book
  • Ding Dong the Wicked - cover

    Ding Dong the Wicked

    Caryl Churchill

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    A short play by one of the UK's leading dramatists. Premiered at the Royal Court in October 2012.
'No one could blame me. I've been hurt. You're a monster.'
A child is shut in her room, a dog is dead in the road, someone is kissing her brother in law. A family locked in hatred is sending a son to war. And meanwhile in another country...
'The best short play since Harold Pinter's Mountain Language' Mark Lawson, Front Row
'As always Churchill seems inventive, coolly socialist, bleak yet dazzling, a bit of a shaman' Evening Standard
'An intriguing work, with an underlying atmosphere of unease and menace reminiscent of Pinter... it nags away in the memory long after you have left the theatre' Telegraph
    Show book
  • good dog (NHB Modern Plays) - cover

    good dog (NHB Modern Plays)

    Arinzé Kene

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    It's in the window of Sam's, behind the rusty display. Two wheels, shiny body, handlebars ready to be gripped. Mum's promised him that bike, so even when school or homelife bites, he knows to keep his chin up, his head down and his shirt clean. No harsh word, no sudden push to the ground, will distract him from growing up to be a good man.
Set during the early noughties, good dog is a theatrical monologue that chronicles growing up in a multicultural community, and the everyday injustices that drive people to take back control. Because even the most patient among us can't wait forever.
Delicately observed and fearlessly told, good dog was first produced by tiata fahodzi in association with Watford Palace Theatre in spring 2017.
'One of Britain's most exciting young playwrights' Guardian
    Show book
  • The Winslow Boy - cover

    The Winslow Boy

    Terence Rattigan

    • 0
    • 0
    • 0 
    Based on the real-life court case of a young naval cadet unjustly accused of stealing a five-shilling postal order and first staged in 1946, The Winslow Boy has been revived many times since, including at The Old Vic in 2013.
Ronnie Winslow is expelled from naval college, having been accused of petty theft. Enraged, his father Arthur engages a lawyer to challenge the Admiralty to prove the charges in court – but public opinion is very much against the Winslows, and each member of the family is suffering...
This edition includes an authoritative introduction by Dan Rebellato, a biographical sketch and a chronology.
'A sterling example of Rattigan's dramatic skill and humanity... deeply poignant' Telegraph
'A playwright of acute emotional intelligence, elegant wit, and an extraordinary gift for expressive construction... thrilling' Independent
    Show book