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Aeschylus - Agamemnon (Browning Translation)

The play Agamemnon details the homecoming of Agamemnon, King of Argos, from the Trojan War. Waiting at home for him is his wife, Clytemnestra, who has been planning his murder, partly as revenge for the sacrifice of...

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Giuseppe Giacosa - Bohème

In 1830s Paris, four struggling Bohemian artists: the poet Rodolfo, the painter Marcello, the musician Schaunard, and the philosopher Colline, live poorly, but happily. On Christmas Eve, to celebrate, the four split...

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Sophocles - Oedipus at Colonus (Jebb Translation)

«Oedipus at Colonus» (also Oedipus Coloneus, Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους ἐπὶ Κολωνῷ, Oidipous epi Kolōnō) is one of the three Theban plays of the Athenian tragedian Sophocles. It was written shortly before Sophocles'...

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Sophocles - Oedipus Rex (Murray Translation)

«Oedipus Rex» (Ancient Greek: Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, Oidipous Tyrannos), also known as «Oedipus the King» or «Oedipus the Tyrant,» is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed about 429 BC (noted...

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Sophocles - Antigone (Plumptre Translation)

A powerful artistic protest against tyranny, «Antigone» has been translated and adapted dozens of times, applied over and over through the centuries to current forms of the oppression so common to human experience....

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Euripides - Trojan Women (Coleridge Translation)

Described by modern playwright Ellen McLaughlin as «perhaps the greatest antiwar play ever written,» «The Trojan Women,» also known as «Troades,» is a tragedy by the Greek playwright Euripides. Produced in 415 BC...

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Aeschylus - Prometheus Bound (Thoreau Translation)

Whether or not it was actually written by Aeschylus, as is much disputed, «Prometheus Bound» is a powerful statement on behalf of free humanity in the face of what often seem like the impersonal, implacable Forces...

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Aeschylus - Persians (version 2)

The earliest of Aeschylus' plays to survive is «The Persians» (Persai), performed in 472 BC and based on experiences in Aeschylus's own life, specifically the Battle of Salamis. It is unique among surviving Greek...

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Euripides - Electra (Murray Translation)

Electra (the Unmated One) is eaten up with hatred of her mother Clytemnestra and stepfather Aegisthus for their murder of her father Agamemnon. Married platonically to a good-hearted but poverty-stricken old peasant,...

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Iphigenia in Tauris (Murray Translation)

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Euripides - Iphigenia in Tauris (Murray Translation)

The apparent sacrifice of Iphigenia at Aulis by her own father Agamemnon was forestalled by the godness Artemis, who by an adroit sleight of hand that fooled all participants, substituted a deer for the daughter....

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Thomas Dekker - Witch of Edmonton

Mother Elizabeth Sawyer is a poor, lonely, and unfairly ostracized old woman with nothing left to lose. Frank is a poor farmer who intends to marry his beloved Winnifred, who is pregnant with his child, but is...

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Sophocles - Electra (Storr Translation)

Electra or Elektra is a Greek tragedy by Sophocles. Its date is not known, but various stylistic similarities with the Philoctetes (409 BC) and the Oedipus at Colonus (401 BC) lead scholars to suppose that it was...

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