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"Breathtakingly successful." —Michael Dirda, Washington Post A bold and dynamic retelling of five great male-female pairings from the Greek myths: Prometheus and Pandora, Jason and Medea, Oedipus...

Medea betrayed her father and left her homeland for the love of Jason. Then when he abandoned her, she murdered her children. But did she? And what of Clytemnestra, the conniving adulteress? For ten...

Father-son conflict was for the Athenians a topic of widespread interest that touched the core of both family and political life, particularly during times of social upheaval. In this vivid account...

How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of abstract mathematics to the human stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of...

How playwrights from Alfred Jarry and Samuel Beckett to Tom Stoppard and Simon McBurney brought the power of mathematics to life on the stageThe discovery of alternate geometries, paradoxes of the...

An acclaimed political theorist offers a fresh, interdisciplinary analysis of the politics of refusal, highlighting the promise of a feminist politics that does not simply withdraw from the status...

Winner of the Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic FictionWinner of the Waterstones Debut Fiction PrizeWinner of the Authors' Club Best First Novel AwardShortlisted for the Walter Scott Prize...

Human sacrifice, a spirited heroine, a quest ending in a hairsbreadth escape, the touching reunion of long-lost siblings, and exquisite poetry—these features have historically made Euripides'...

The Egyptians mesmerized the ancient Greeks for scores of years. The Greek literature and art of the classical period are especially thick with representations of Egypt and Egyptians. Yet despite...

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Note to the Reader -- Abbreviations -- Maps -- General Introduction -- HISTORICAL OVERVIEW -- THE ORGANISATION...

The link between weddings and death―as found in dramas ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Lorca's Blood Wedding―plays a central role in the action of many Greek tragedies. Female characters such as...

The link between weddings and death—as found in dramas ranging from Romeo and Juliet to Lorca's Blood Wedding—plays a central role in the action of many Greek tragedies. Female characters such as...

A finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in Fiction.Named one of the best books of 2015 by The New York Times , NPR, The Guardian, Publisher's Weekly, Kirkus Reviews, BuzzFeed,...

Foreword François Ewald and Alessandro Fontana p. xi Translator's Note p. xvii 1 5 January 1983: First Hour p. 1 Remarks on method Study of Kant's text: What is Enlightenment? Conditions of...

Library of America presents the definitive edition of an essential figure in Black and American theater, spanning from the 1960s to the 2010s and including several works published for the first...