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DRAMA Here is an overview of Penguin Group (USA)’s Books great selection of Drama titles. Click on the 13-digit ISBN to get more information on each title. for Examination and personal copy forms are available at the back of the catalog. For personal service, adoption assistance, and complimentary exam copies, sign up for our College Faculty Info Service at Courses http://www.penguin.com/facinfo PENGUIN GROUP (USA) ANCIENT & CLASSICAL DRAMA ANCIENT & CLASSICAL DRAMA Aeschylus, Euripedes, Sophocles Aristophanes f GREEK TRAGEDY THE BIRDS and Other Plays Translated by E. F. Watling, Philip Vellacott, Translated by Alan Sommerstein and David Barrett Shomit Dutta, and Malcolm Heath Also includes The Knights, The Assembly-Women, Edited by Shomit Dutta Peace, and Wealth. Introduction by Simon Goodhill Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-044951-8 • $12.00 Contains Aeschylus’ Agamemnon, Sophocles’ Oedi- pus Rex, and Euripides’ Medea. Also includes extracts ARISTOPHANES: The Complete Plays from Aristophanes’ comedy The Frogs and a selection New Translations by Paul Roche from Aristotle’s Poetics. Includes The Clouds, The Wasps, Lysistrata, The Birds, Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-143936-5 • $15.00 Plutus (Wealth), The Frogs, A Parliment of Women, The Knights, The Acharnians, Peace, and Women at the Thesmophoria Festival. Aeschylus Signet Classics • 320 pp. • 978-0-451-21409-6 • $18.00 THE ORESTEIA f FOUR PLAYS BY ARISTOPHANES Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, Translated by William Arrowsmith, The Eumenides Richmond Lattimore, and Douglas Parker Translated by Robert Fagles Includes The Birds, The Clouds, The Frogs, and Introductory Essay, Notes, Geneology, Lysistrata. and Glossary Written with W. B. Stanford Plume • 624 pp. 978-0-452-00717-8 • $16.00 The Oresteia—the only trilogy in Greek drama that f survives from antiquity—takes on new depth and THE FROGS and Other Plays power in Fagles’ acclaimed modern translation. Revised with an Introduction Includes a critical Introduction to Aeschylus and the and Notes by Shomit Dutta history, ideas, and symbolism in The Oresteia. “Con- Also includes The Wasps and The Poet and the veys more vividly and powerfully than any of the ten Women. TABLE OF competitors I have consulted the eternal power of this Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-044969-3 • $11.00 masterpiece...a triumph.”—Bernard Levin. LYSISTRATA and Other Plays CONTENTS Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-044333-2 • $12.00 Translated with a New Introduction ANCIENT & THE ORESTEIAN TRILOGY by Alan H. Sommerstein CLASSICAL DRAMA..........2 Translated by Philip Vellacott Also includes The Acharnians and The Clouds. A collec- tion of comedies revealing the corruscating wit of the SHAKESPEARE ..................4 Includes Agamemnon, The Choephori, and The Eumenides. great satirist of ancient Greece. In the title play, a band THE SIGNET CLASSICS of women tap into the power of sex in order to end a SHAKESPEARE ....................... 4 Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-044067-6 • $11.00 war. New introductory notes to each play, bibliography, THE PELICAN f SHAKESPEARE ........................7 THE PERSIANS and Other Plays and a chronology of Aristophanes’ life and work. NEW PENGUIN The Persians/Prometheus Bound/ Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-044814-6 • $9.00 SHAKESPEARE ........................8 Seven Against Thebes/The Suppliants f LYSISTRATA RELATED SHAKESPEARE Translated with an Introduction Translated with an Introduction by Douglass Parker TITLES ........................................ 9 and Notes by Alan H. Sommerstein New Afterword by Judith Fletcher WORLD DRAMA ...............11 Illuminating the tragic grandeur for which Aeschylus has been celebrated, this fresh translation of The Persians Signet Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-451-53124-7 • $5.95 AMERICAN DRAMA ........16 and Other Plays shows how Aeschylus brought epic sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the SCENE BOOKS & ORAL Euripides INTERPRETATION ........... 21 status of high art. Penguin Classics • 196 pp. • 978-0-14-044999-0 • $14.00 THE BACCHAE and Other Plays STAGECRAFT & Translated by Philip Vellacott THE PROFESSIONAL PROMETHEUS BOUND and Other Plays Also includes Ion, The Women of Troy, and Helen. ACTOR ...............................23 Translated by Philip Vellacott Penguin Classics • 246 pp. • 978-0-14-044044-7 • $11.00 Also includes The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, CRITICAL REFERENCE ELECTRA and Other Plays WORKS ..............................23 and The Persians. Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-044112-3 • $12.00 Translated by John Davie ALSO OF INTEREST ........25 Introduction and Notes by Richard Rutherford FROM THE PUBLISHER’S “A modern English Euripides that I will gladly share OFFICE ..............................25 Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence with students and colleagues—and one to which I will f return, often and eagerly, for the wry joys and tragic COLLEGE FACULTY CLASSICAL COMEDY Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Erich Segal perplexities that the ancient playwright holds before INFORMATION us now.”—Robert Fagles. Also includes Suppliant SERVICE ........................... 26 Includes Aristophanes’ The Birds, Menander’s The Girl from Samos, Plautus’s The Brothers Menaechmus, and Women, Andromache, Hecabe, and Trojan Women. SCHOOL & PERSONAL Terence’s The Eunuch; prefaces to each comedy, a Penguin Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-044668-5 • $11.00 COPY ORDER FORM .......28 chronological table, further reading. EXAMINATION COPY Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-044982-2 • $16.00 ORDER FORM ................. 29 PENGUIN GROUP (USA) Books for Courses 2010 2 f NEW OR FORTHCOMING DRAMA ANCIENT & CLASSICAL DRAMA Euripides Plautus HERACLES and Other Plays THE POT OF GOLD and Other Plays New Translation by John Davie Translated by E. F. Watling Introduction by Richard Rutherford The Prisoners, The Brothers, Menaechmus, The Swag- “Davie’s translations are outstanding.”—William Allan. gering Soldier, and Pseudolus. Includes Cyclops, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Ion, Penguin Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-044149-9 • $13.00 and Helen, in addition to the title play. Penguin Classics • 116 pp. • 978-0-14-044725-5 • $11.00 THE ROPE and Other Plays Translated by E. F. Watling MEDEA and Other Plays Also includes Amphitryo, The Ghost, and Three-Dollar-Day. Translated by John Davie Penguin Classics • 288 pp. • 978-0-14-044136-9 • $12.00 Introduction and Notes by Richard Rutherford “Clearly one of the best translations of Euripides I have seen, and largely, I think, because of the ﬂ exibil- Seneca ity of the prose.”—Robert Fagles. Also includes The FOUR TRAGEDIES and OCTAVIA Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, and Alcestis. Translated by E. F. Watling Penguin Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-044929-7 • $12.00 Also includes Phaedra, Oedipus, Thyestes, and The MEDEA and Other Plays Trojan Women. Penguin Classics • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-044174-1 • $14.00 Translated by Philip Vellacott Includes Hecabe, Electra, and Heracles. Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-044129-1 • $10.00 Sophocles ORESTES and Other Plays THE COMPLETE PLAYS Translated and Introduced by Philip Vellacott Translated by Paul Roche Also includes The Children of Heracles, Andromache, Signet Classics • 608 pp. • 978-0-451-52784-4 • $6.95 The Suppliant Women, The Phoenician Women, and f Iphigenia in Aulis. ELECTRA and Other Plays Penguin Classics • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-044259-5 • $13.00 Translated with a Preface and Notes by David Raeburn THE BACCHAE and Other Plays Introduction by Pat Easterling Translated by Philip Vellacott Includes Women of Trachis, Philoctetes, and Ajax. Also includes Ion, The Women of Troy, and Helen. Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-044-978-5 • $12.00 Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-044044-7 • $11.00 THE OEDIPUS PLAYS OF SOPHOCLES TEN PLAYS Revised and Updated Translation by Paul Roche New Translation by Paul Roche Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. Includes his ten greatest works: Alcestis, Hippolytus, Includes an appendix, glossary, and notes. Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the Plume • 224 pp. • 978-0-452-01167-0 • $14.00 Taurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Woman, and The Cyclops. Contains a general introduction, THE THEBAN PLAYS short introductions to each of the plays, and a glos- Translated by E. F. Watling sary of names of people, places, and gods. Includes King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, and Signet Classics • 624 pp. • 978-0-451-52700-4 • $7.95 Antigone. Penguin Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-044003-4 • $12.00 THE THREE THEBAN PLAYS: Antigone, Menander Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus PLAYS AND FRAGMENTS Translated by Robert Fagles Translated and Introduced by Norma Miller Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox Contains all but two of Menander’s surviving plays, Fagles’ lucid modern translation captures the majesty passages attributed to him, and textual notes, includ- of Sophocles’ masterwork, and is enhanced by Knox’s ing the full text of Old Cantankerous (Dyskolos), the insightful Introductions to each play, an essay on the only surviving complete example of New Comedy, as history of the text, extensive notes, bibliography, well as fragments from works including The Girl from genealogy, and glossary. “I know of no better English Samos, The Arbitration, The Rape of the Locks, The version.”—Hugh Lloyd-Jones. Shield, The Sikyonian, The Man She Hated, The Double Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-044425-4 • $12.00 Deceiver, The Farmer, The Toady, The Harpist, The Hero, The Phantom, The Girl Possessed, and The Girl from Perinthos. Terence Penguin Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-044501-5 • $14.00 THE COMEDIES Translated by Betty Radice Includes The Girl from Andros, The Self-Tormentor, The Eunuch, Phormio, The Mother-in-Law, and The Brothers. Penguin Classics • 400 pp. • 978-0-14-044324-0 • $15.00 Now you can E-MAIL your desk copy request to Penguin Group (USA)’s Academic Marketing Department to save time: academic@penguin. com. Or FAX to: 212-366-2933. Books for Courses 2010 PENGUIN GROUP (USA) DRAMA f NEW OR FORTHCOMING 3 SHAKESPEARE THE SIGNET CLASSICS SHAKESPEARE Our Signet Classics Shakespeare Series has been extensively revised during the past ten years.

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