“marianne mcdonald”

Expert student edition of Euripides' enduring Classical tragedy about filial revenge, in an up-to-date translation with notes, commentaries, chronology and background to the play.Euripides was born near Athens circa 480 BC and grew up during the years of the Athenian recovery after the Persian Wars.... More

"A rare playwright who could be a primary candidate for either the Nobel Prize in Literature or the Nobel Peace Prize."-The New Yorker This new play about life and art by renowned playwright Athol Fugard is based on his early friendship with actor Andrew Huegonit, considered the finest classical act... More

'Marianne McDonald's book triumphantly confirms the steadiness of the classical inheritance and explores the reason for its continuing force and glamour in contemporary theatre. These analyses and interviews give Greek drama a whole new lease on life; they send you back to the texts and make you eag... More

Marianne McDonald brings together her training as a scholar of classical Greek with her vast experience in theatre and drama to help students of the classics and of theatre learn about the living performance tradition of Greek tragedy. The Living Art of Greek Tragedy is indispensable for anyone inte... More

Opera has often used classical literature as a means of expressing the most vital concerns of the period in which the operas were written. Sing Sorrow explores the classical roots of many noted operas, illustrating the ways in which the operas reflected the political concerns of their time through t... More

A selection of six tragedies that have had an immense influence on Western drama. They depict archtypes of the human condition and eternal dilemmas of morality and loyalty.... More

This series of essays by prominent academics and practitioners investigates in detail the history of performance in the classical Greek and Roman world. Beginning with the earliest examples of ???dramatic??? presentation in the epic cycles and reaching through to the latter days of the Roman Empire ... More