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Penguin Publishing Group DRAMA Penguin Academic Services BOOKS FOR COURSES 2016 PENGUIN.COM/ACADEMIC For information about our newly repackaged Pelican Shakespeare series, see pages 8-9. ANCIENT & CLASSICAL DRAMA ANCIENT & CLASSICAL DRAMA Aeschylus, Euripedes, Sophocles Aristophanes 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 • $13.00 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 Translated by Paul Roche from Aristotle’s Poetics. Includes The Clouds, The Wasps, Lysistrata, The Birds, Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-143936-5 • $16.00 Plutus (Wealth), The Frogs, A Parliment of Women, The Knights, The Acharnians, Peace, and Women at the Thesmophoria Festival. Aeschylus Signet Classics • 736 pp. • 978-0-451-21409-6 • $18.00 THE ORESTEIA 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 survives from antiquity—takes on new depth and FOUR PLAYS power in Fagles’ acclaimed modern translation. Translated by Paul Roche Includes a critical Introduction to Aeschylus and the Features four celebrated masterpieces: Lysistrata, The history, ideas, and symbolism in The Oresteia. “Con- Frogs, A Parliament of Women and Plutus (Wealth), veys more vividly and powerfully than any of the ten all translated by poet and translator Paul Roche. TABLE OF competitors I have consulted the eternal power of this Signet Classics • 320 pp. • 978-0-451-52931-2 • $6.95 masterpiece...a triumph.”—Bernard Levin. THE FROGS and Other Plays CONTENTS Penguin Classics • 336 pp. • 978-0-14-044333-2 • $15.00 Revised with an Introduction ANCIENT & THE ORESTEIAN TRILOGY and Notes by Shomit Dutta CLASSICAL DRAMA..........2 Translated by Philip Vellacott Also includes The Wasps and The Poet and the Women. Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-044969-3 • $13.00 SHAKESPEARE ..................4 Includes Agamemnon, The Choephori, and The Eumenides. THE SIGNET CLASSICS LYSISTRATA and Other Plays Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-044067-6 • $13.00 SHAKESPEARE .......................4 Translated with an Introduction THE PELICAN THE PERSIANS and Other Plays by Alan H. Sommerstein SHAKESPEARE ....................... 7 The Persians/Prometheus Bound/ Also includes The Acharnians and The Clouds. A collec- NEW PENGUIN Seven Against Thebes/The Suppliants tion of comedies revealing the wit of the great satirist SHAKESPEARE ....................... 7 of ancient Greece. Introductory notes to each play, a Translated with an Introduction RELATED SHAKESPEARE bibliography, and a chronology. and Notes by Alan H. Sommerstein TITLES ......................................10 Illuminating the tragic grandeur for which Aeschylus has Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-044814-6 • $10.00 WORLD DRAMA .............. 12 been celebrated, this fresh translation of The Persians LYSISTRATA AMERICAN DRAMA ........ 17 and Other Plays shows how Aeschylus brought epic Translated with an Introduction by Douglass Parker sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the Afterword by Judith Fletcher ARTHUR MILLER................... 18 status of high art. Signet Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-451-53124-7 • $5.95 LIBRARY OF AMERICA ...... 22 Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-044999-0 • $15.00 SCENE BOOKS & ORAL INTERPRETATION ...........23 PROMETHEUS BOUND and Other Plays Translated by Philip Vellacott Euripides STAGECRAFT & Also includes The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes, THE BACCHAE and Other Plays THE PROFESSIONAL and The Persians. Translated by Philip Vellacott ACTOR .............................. 24 Penguin Classics • 160 pp. • 978-0-14-044112-3 • $14.00 Also includes Ion, The Women of Troy, and Helen. CRITICAL REFERENCE Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-044044-7 • $13.00 WORKS ............................. 24 Aristophanes, Menander, Plautus, Terence ELECTRA and Other Plays ALSO OF INTEREST ........25 Translated by John Davie CLASSICAL COMEDY Introduction and Notes by Richard Rutherford COLLEGE FACULTY Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Erich Segal “A modern English Euripides that I will gladly share INFORMATION Includes Aristophanes’ The Birds, Menander’s The Girl with students and colleagues—and one to which I will SERVICE ............................27 from Samos, Plautus’s The Brothers Menaechmus, and return, often and eagerly, for the wry joys and tragic Terence’s The Eunuch; prefaces to each comedy, a EXAMINATION COPY perplexities that the ancient playwright holds before chronological table, further reading. ORDER FORM ................. 29 us now.”—Robert Fagles. Also includes Suppliant Penguin Classics • 352 pp. • 978-0-14-044982-2 • $17.00 Women, Andromache, Hecabe, and Trojan Women. Penguin Classics • 224 pp. • 978-0-14-044668-5 • $12.00 2 u NEW OR FORTHCOMING DRAMA Books for Courses 2016 ANCIENT & CLASSICAL DRAMA Euripides Seneca HERACLES and Other Plays FOUR TRAGEDIES and OCTAVIA Translated by John Davie Translated by E. F. Watling Introduction by Richard Rutherford Also includes Phaedra, Oedipus, Thyestes, and The “Davie’s translations are outstanding.”—William Allan. Trojan Women. Includes Cyclops, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Ion, Penguin Classics • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-044174-1 • $15.00 and Helen, in addition to the title play. Penguin Classics • 416 pp. • 978-0-14-044725-5 • $14.00 PHAEDRA and Other Plays Translated with an Introduction MEDEA and Other Plays and Notes by R. Scott Smith Translated by John Davie This vivid translation contains Seneca’s tragic master- Introduction and Notes by Richard Rutherford pieces: Hercules Insane, Trojan Women, Phaedra, “Clearly one of the best translations of Euripides I Oedipus, Thyestes, and Octavia. have seen, and largely, I think, because of the flexibil- Penguin Classics • 320 pp. • 978-0-14-045551-9 • $15.00 ity of the prose.”—Robert Fagles. Also includes The Children of Heracles, Hippolytus, and Alcestis. Penguin Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-14-044929-7 • $12.00 Sophocles THE COMPLETE PLAYS MEDEA and Other Plays Translated by Paul Roche Translated by Philip Vellacott Afterword by Matthew S. Santirocco Includes Hecabe, Electra, and Heracles. Signet Classics • 448 pp. • 978-0-451-53153-7 • $6.95 Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-044129-1 • $11.00 ELECTRA and Other Plays ORESTES and Other Plays Translated with a Preface Translated and Introduced by Philip Vellacott and Notes by David Raeburn Also includes The Children of Heracles, Andromache, The Suppliant Women, The Phoenician Women, and Introduction by Pat Easterling Includes Women of Trachis, Philoctetes, and Ajax. Iphigenia in Aulis. Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-044-978-5 • $13.00 Penguin Classics • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-044259-5 • $13.00 THE OEDIPUS PLAYS OF SOPHOCLES THE BACCHAE and Other Plays Revised and Updated Translation by Paul Roche Translated by Philip Vellacott Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus, and Antigone. Also includes Ion, The Women of Troy, and Helen. Includes an appendix, glossary, and notes. Penguin Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-14-044044-7 • $13.00 Plume • 288 pp. • 978-0-452-01167-0 • $14.00 TEN PLAYS THE THEBAN PLAYS Translated by Paul Roche Translated by E. F. Watling Includes his ten greatest works: Alcestis, Hippolytus, Includes King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, and Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the Antigone. Taurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Woman, Penguin Classics • 176 pp. • 978-0-14-044003-4 • $13.00 and The Cyclops. Contains a general introduction, short introductions to each of the plays, and a glos- THE THREE THEBAN PLAYS: Antigone, sary of names of people, places, and gods. Oedipus the King, Oedipus at Colonus Signet Classics • 608 pp. • 978-0-451-52700-4 • $7.95 Translated by Robert Fagles Introduction and Notes by Bernard Knox Fagles’ lucid modern translation captures the majesty Menander of Sophocles’ masterwork, and is enhanced by Knox’s PLAYS AND FRAGMENTS insightful Introductions to each play, an essay on the Translated and Introduced by Norma Miller history of the text, extensive notes, bibliography, Contains all but two of Menander’s surviving plays, genealogy, and glossary. “I know of no better English passages attributed to him, and textual notes, includ- version.”—Hugh Lloyd-Jones. ing the full text of Old Cantankerous (Dyskolos), the Penguin Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-14-044425-4 • $15.00 only surviving complete example of New Comedy, as well as fragments from The Girl from Samos, The Arbi- tration, The Rape of the Locks, The Shield, The Sikyo- Terence nian, The Man She Hated, The Double Deceiver, The THE COMEDIES Farmer, The Toady, The Harpist, The Hero, The Phan- Translated by Betty Radice tom, The Girl Possessed, and The Girl from Perinthos. Includes The Girl from Andros, The Self-Tormentor, Penguin Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-14-044501-5 • $15.00 The Eunuch, Phormio, The Mother-in-Law, and The Brothers. Penguin Classics