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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-
ARISTOPHANES: The Complete Plays
pus Rex, and Euripides’ Medea. Also includes extracts
New Translations by Paul Roche
from Aristophanes’ comedy The Frogs and a selection
Includes The Clouds, The Wasps, Lysistrata, The Birds,
from Aristotle’s Poetics.
Plutus (Wealth), The Frogs, A Parliment of Women,
Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-143936-5 • $15.00
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 THE FROGS and Other Plays
survives from antiquity—takes on new depth and
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
CONTENTS masterpiece...a triumph.”—Bernard Levin. LYSISTRATA and Other Plays
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-
SHAKESPEARE ..................4 Includes Agamemnon, The Choephori, and The tion of comedies revealing the corruscating wit of the
Eumenides. great satirist of ancient Greece. In the title play, a band
THE SIGNET CLASSICS
SHAKESPEARE .......................4 Penguin Classics • 208 pp. • 978-0-14-044067-6 • $11.00 of women tap into the power of sex in order to end a
war. New introductory notes to each play, bibliography,
THE PELICAN f THE PERSIANS and Other Plays and a chronology of Aristophanes’ life and work.
SHAKESPEARE ........................7
The Persians/Prometheus Bound/ Penguin Classics • 304 pp. • 978-0-14-044814-6 • $9.00
NEW PENGUIN
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
Signet Classics • 144 pp. • 978-0-451-53124-7 • $5.95
been celebrated, this fresh translation of The Persians
AMERICAN DRAMA ........16 and Other Plays shows how Aeschylus brought epic
SCENE BOOKS & ORAL sweep to the drama of classical Athens, raising it to the
Euripides
INTERPRETATION ...........21 status of high art.
THE BACCHAE and Other Plays
Penguin Classics • 196 pp. • 978-0-14-044999-0 • $14.00
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
CRITICAL REFERENCE Also includes The Suppliants, Seven Against Thebes,
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 CLASSICAL COMEDY return, often and eagerly, for the wry joys and tragic
COLLEGE FACULTY perplexities that the ancient playwright holds before
Edited with an Introduction and Notes by Erich Segal
INFORMATION us now.”—Robert Fagles. Also includes Suppliant
Includes Aristophanes’ The Birds, Menander’s The Girl
SERVICE ...........................26 Women, Andromache, Hecabe, and Trojan Women.
from Samos, Plautus’s The Brothers Menaechmus, and
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
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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.
THE ROPE and Other Plays
Penguin Classics • 116 pp. • 978-0-14-044725-5 • $11.00
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
Trojan Women.
MEDEA and Other Plays
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 ELECTRA and Other Plays
Iphigenia in Aulis.
Translated with a Preface
Penguin Classics • 448 pp. • 978-0-14-044259-5 • $13.00
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,
THE THEBAN PLAYS
and The Cyclops. Contains a general introduction,
Translated by E. F. Watling
short introductions to each of the plays, and a glos-
Includes King Oedipus, Oedipus at Colonus, and
sary of names of people, places, and gods.
Antigone.
Signet Classics • 624 pp. • 978-0-451-52700-4 • $7.95
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
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THE SIGNET CLASSICS SHAKESPEARE
Our Signet Classics Shakespeare Series has been extensively revised during the past ten years. We offer the
best of everything—unforgettable works edited by eminent Shakespeare scholars, comprehensive notes on the
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Heilbrun, Michael Goldman, and Linda Bamber. teen of the most-taught plays.
HISTORY KING JOHN and HENRY VIII
Revised Edition
Sylvan Barnet
HENRY IV, PART I
Introduction by William H. Matchett
Maynard Mack and S. Schoenbaum
Samuel Johnson: From The Plays of William Shakespeare; Donald A. Stauffer: From Shakespeare’s World of Images;
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: From H. C. Robinson’s Memo- Harold C. Goddard: From The Meaning of Shakespeare;
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James Winny: From The Player King: A Theme of Shake- Stage; Alan C. Dessen: Deborah Warner’s Stratford-upon-
speare’s Histories; Robert Ornstein: From A Kingdom for a Avon Production (1988); Jane Lapotaire: Playing Katherine
Stage; Michael Goldman: From Shakespeare and the Ener- in the Vision Scene (4.2) of Henry VIII.
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line Identity in Shakespeare; Cleanth Brooks and Robert S.
Heilman: From Understanding Drama; Sylvan Barnet: RICHARD II
“Henry IV, Part I” on the Stage and Screen; T. F. Wharton: Kenneth Muir
Interpreting ”1 Henry IV”: Four Productions. Walter Pater: Shakespeare’s English Kings; Richard D.
Signet Classics • 284 pp. • 978-0-451-52711-0 • $4.95 Altick: Symphonic Imagery in “Richard II”; Derek Traversi:
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HENRY IV, PART II
added essays: Samuel Schoenbaum: “Richard II” and the
Norman Holland Realities of Power; Kenneth Muir: “Richard II” on Stage and
William Hazlitt: From Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays; Screen; Graham Holderness: The Women.
Sigmund Freud: From Jokes and Their Relationship to the
Signet Classics • 280 pp. • 978-0-451-52719-6 • $5.95
Unconscious; Philip Williams: From The Birth and Death of
Falstaff Reconsidered; Harold Jenkins: The Structural Prob- RICHARD III
lem in Shakespeare’s “Henry the Fourth”; James L. Calder- Mark Eccles
wood: From Metadrama in Shakespeare’s Henriad; Coppélia Charles Lamb: Letter to Robert Lloyd, from Cooke’s “Rich-
Kahn: From Man’s Estate: Masculine Identity in Shakespeare; ard the Third,” and from On the Tragedies of Shakespeare,
Sidney Homan: “Henry IV, Part II” on Stage and Screen; Considered with Reference to Their Fitness for Stage Rep-
Michael Goldman: History-Making in the Heriad. resentation; A. P. Rossiter: Angel with Horns: The Unity of
Signet Classics • 192 pp. • 978-0-451-52853-7 • $5.95 “Richard III.” Robert Ornstein: “Richard III”; Mark Eccles:
“Richard III” on Stage and Screen; Coppélia Kahn: Myself
HENRY V
Alone: Richard III and the Dissolution of Masculine Identity.
John Russell Brown
Signet Classics • 286 pp. • 978-0-451-52695-3 • $5.95
William Hazlitt: From Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays;
W. B. Yeats: From Ideas of Good and Evil; E. M. W. Tillyard:
From Shakespeare’s History Plays; Jonathan Dollimore
and Alan Sinfi eld: From History and Ideology: Instance of
TRAGEDY
“Henry V”; John Russell Brown: “Henry V” on Stage and
Screen. Newly Added Essay: Diana E. Henderson “Enter
Queen Isabel”: The Difference It Makes.
FOUR GREAT TRAGEDIES
Signet Classics • 272 pp. • 978-0-451-52690-8 • $4.95
Introduction by Sylvan Barnet
f HENRY VI, Parts I, II, & III
Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, and Othello.
Sylvan Barnet Signet Classics • 592 pp. • 978-0-451-52729-5 • $7.95
PART I: Herman Ulrici: From Shakespeare’s Dramatic Art;
E. M. W. Tillyard: From Shakespeare’s History Plays; J. P. ANTONY AND CLEOPATRA
Brockbank: From The Frame of Disorder—”Henry VI.” Barbara Everett
Newly added essays: Phyllis Rackin: Anti-Historians: Wom- Samuel Johnson: From The Plays of William Shakespeare;
en’s Roles in Shakespeare’s History; Lawrence B. Ryan: A. C. Bradley: Shakespeare’s “Antony and Cleopatra”; John
“Henry VI” on Stage And Television. PART II: Samuel John- F. Danby: “Antony and Cleopatra”: A Shakespearian Adjust-
son: From The Plays of William Shakespeare; Sir Barry ment; Janet Adelman: From The Common Liar: An Essay
Jackson: On Producing “Henry VI”; J. P. Brockbank: From on “Antony and Cleopatra”; Samuel Schoenbaum: “Antony
The Frame of Disorder—”Henry VI”. PART III: Samuel John- and Cleopatra” on Stage and Screen; Marianne Novy: Gen-
son: From The Plays of William Shakespeare; J. P. Brock- der and Acting in “Anthony and Cleopatra.”
bank: From The Frame of Disorder—”Henry VI”; E. M. W. Signet Classics • 300 pp. • 978-0-451-52713-4 • $4.95
Tillyard: From Shakespeare’s History Plays.
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CORIOLANUS OTHELLO
Reuben Brower Alvin Kernan
A. C. Bradley: Coriolanus; Wyndham Lewis: From The Lion Samuel Taylor Coleridge: Comments on “Othello”; May-
and the Fox; D. A. Traversi: From An Approach to Shake- nard Mack: The Jacobean Shakespeare: Some Observa-
speare; Joyce Van Dyke: Making a Scene: Language and tions on the Construction of the Tragedies; Madelon Gholke
Gesture in “Coriolanus”; Samuel Schoenbaum: “Corio- Sprengnether: “I wooed thee with my sword”; Shake-
lanus” on Stage and Screen; Bruce R. Smith: Sexual Poli- speare’s Tragic Paradigms; Sylvan Barnet: “Othello” on the
tics in Coriolanus. Stage and Screen; Marvin Carlson: Othello in Vienna, 1991.
Signet Classics • 384 pp. • 978-0-451-52843-8 • $5.95 Signet Classics • 296 pp. • 978-0-451-52685-4 • $4.95
HAMLET ROMEO AND JULIET
Sylvan Barnet J. A. Bryant, Jr.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: From The Lectures of 1811- 1812, Samuel Johnson: From The Plays of William Shakespeare;
Lecture XII; A. C. Bradley: From Shakespearean Tragedy; Samuel Taylor Coleridge: From The Lectures of 1811-1812,
Maynard Mack: The World of Hamlet; Robert Ornstein: Lecture VII; H. B. Charlton: From Shakespearian Tragedy;
From The Moral Vision of Jacobean Tragedy; Catherine Michael Goldman: “Romeo and Juliet”: The Meaning of
Belsey: From The Subject of Tragedy; Carolyn Heilbrun: Theatrical Experience; Susan Snyder: Beyond Comedy:
The Character of Hamlet’s Mother; Sylvan Barnet: “Ham- “Romeo and Juliet”; Sylvan Barnet: “Romeo and Juliet” on
let” on the Stage and Screen. the Stage and Screen; Marianne Novy: Violence, Love, and
Signet Classics • 296 pp. • 978-0-451-52692-2 • $4.95 Gender in “Romeo and Juliet.”
Signet Classics • 248 pp. • 978-0-451-52686-1 • $4.95
JULIUS CAESAR
William and Barbara Rosen TITUS ANDRONICUS and
Roy Walker: From Unto Caesar: A Review of Recent Pro- TIMON OF ATHENS
ductions. Maynard Mack; The Modernity of “Julius Caesar”; Revised Edition
Richard David: A Review of “Julius Caesar”; Ralph Berry:
Edited by Sylvan Barnet and Maurice Charney
On Directing Shakespeare: An Interview with Trevor Nunn,
respectively
Director of the Royal Shakespeare Company; Sylvan Bar-
TITUS ANDRONICUS: H. T. Price: From The Authorship of
net: “Julius Caesar” on the Stage and Screen; Peggy Good-
“Titus Andronicus”; H. B. Charlton: From Shakespearian
man Endel: Julio Cesar: The 1986 Florida Shakespeare Fes-
Tragedy; Richard David: Drams of Eale; Sylvan Barnet:
tival; Coppélia Kahn: A Voluntary Wound.
“Titus Andronicus” on Stage. TIMON OF ATHENS: William
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Richardson: On the Dramatic Character of “Timon of Ath-
KING LEAR ens”; Roy Walker: From Unto Caesar: A Review of Recent
Productions; David Cook: “Timon of Athens” ;Susan Han-
Russell Fraser
delman: “Timon of Athens”: The Rage of Disillusion; Mau-
Samuel Johnson: From “Preface to Shakespeare” and
rice Charney: “Timon of Athens” on Stage and Screen.
“King Lear”; A. C. Bradley: From Shakespearean Tragedy;
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Harley Granville-Barker: From Prefaces to Shakespeare;
Maynard Mack: From “King Lear” in Our Time; Linda Bam- TROILUS AND CRESSIDA
ber: The Woman Reader in “King Lear”; Sylvan Barnet:
Newly Revised Edition
“King Lear” on the Stage and Screen; John Russell Brown:
Daniel Seltzer
Staging Violence in “King Lear.”
D. A. Traversi: “Troilus and Cressida”; S. L. Bethell: From
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Shakespeare and the Popular Dramatic Tradition; Reuben
MACBETH A. Brower: From Poetic and Dramatic Structure in Versions
and Translations of Shakespeare; Carol Cook: Unbodied
Sylvan Barnet
Figures of Desire; Barbara Bowen: “Troilus and Cressida”
Samuel Johnson: Macbeth; A. C. Bradley: From Shakespear-
on the Stage. Newly added essays: Claire M. Tylee: From
ean Tragedy; Elmer Edgar Stoll: Source and Motive in “Mac-
The Text of Cressida and Every Ticklish Reader: “Troilus
beth” and “Othello”; Cleanth Brooks: The Naked Babe and
and Cressida,” the Greek Camp Scene; Roger Apfelbaum:
the Cloak of Manliness; Mary MacCarthy: General Macbeth;
Postscript: “Troilus and Cressida,” 1990-2001.
Joan Larsen Klein: Lady Macbeth: “Infi rm of Purpose”; Syl-
van Barnet: “Macbeth” on the Stage and Screen; Alan Sin- Signet Classics • 296 pp. • 978-0-451-52847-6 • $5.95
fi eld: “Macbeth”: History, Ideology, and Intellectuals.
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THE MERCHANT OF VENICE COMEDY
Kenneth Myrick
Nicholas Rowe: From The Works of Mr. William Shake-
spear; William Hazlitt: From Characters of Shakespear’s f ALL’S WELL THAT ENDS WELL
Plays; Anonymous: “Henry Irving’s Shylock”; Elmer Edgar
Sylvan Barnet
Stoll: From Shylock; Linda Bamber: The Avoidance of
Samuel Johnson: From The Plays of William Shakespeare;
Choice: A Woman’s Privilege; Alexander Leggatt: The
M. C. Bradbrook: From Shakespeare and Elizabethan
Fourth and Fifth Acts; Sylvan Barnet: “The Merchant of
Poetry. Newly added essays: Joseph Westlund: Longing,
Venice” on the Stage and Screen; Robert Smallwood: The
Idealization, and Sadness in “All’s Well That Ends Well”;
End of The Merchant of Venice: Four Versions.
Sylvan Barnet: “All’s Well That Ends Well” on the Stage.
Signet Classics • 216 pp. • 978-0-451-52680-9 • $4.95
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AS YOU LIKE IT
Albert Gilman
TEACHERS GUIDES Arthur Colby Sprague: From Shakespeare and the Actors;
For teachers guides to dozens of Shakespeare Helen Gardner: “As You Like It”; Peter B. Erickson: From
titles, visit us.penguingroup.com/tguides Sexual Politics and Social Structure in “As You Like It;”
Sylvan Barnet: “As You Like It” on the Stage; Jean E. How-
ard: Cross-dressing in “As You Like It.”
Signet Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-451-52678-6 • $4.95
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THE COMEDY OF ERRORS THE TAMING OF THE SHREW
Revised Edition Sylvan Barnet
Harry Levin Richard Hosley: Sources and Analogues of “The Taming of
August Wilhelm Schlegel: From Lectures on Dramatic Art the Shrew”; Maynard Mack: From Engagement and Detach-
and Literature; Samuel Taylor Coleridge: From Shake- ment in Shakespeare’s Plays; Germain Greer: From The
spearean Criticism; William Hazlitt: From Characters of Female Eunuch; Alexander Leggatt: From Shakespeare’s
Shakespeare’s Plays; Etienne Souriau: From The Two Hun- Comedy of Love; Linda Bamber: Sexism and the Battle of
dred Thousand Dramatic Situations; Bertrand Evans: From the Sexes in “The Taming of the Shrew”; Sylvan Barnet: “The
Shakespeare’s Comedies; C. L. Barber: From Shakespear- Taming of the Shrew” on the Stage and Screen; Karen New-
ian Comedy in “The Comedy of Errors”; Louise George man: Missing Frames and Female Spectacles; Camille Wells
Clubb: From Italian Comedy and “The Comedy of Errors”; Slights: From Shakespeare’s Comic Commonwealths.
Harry Levin: “The Comedy of Errors” on Stage and Screen;
Signet Classics • 228 pp. • 978-0-451-52679-3 • $4.95
Coppélia Kahn: Identity in “The Comedy of Errors.”
Signet Classics • 240 pp. • 978-0-451-52839-1 • $4.95 FOUR GREAT COMEDIES
f LOVE’S LABOR’S LOST Introduction by Sylvan Barnet
A Midsummer Night’s Dream, The Taming of the Shrew,
Edited by John Arthos, Bertrand Evans,
The Tempest, and Twelfth Night.
and William Green
Signet Classics • 432 pp. • 978-0-451-52731-8 • $7.95
Walter Pater: From Appreciations; Northrop Frye: The
Argument of Comedy; Richard David: From Shakespeare’s THE TEMPEST
Comedies and the Modern Stage; and John Arthos:
Robert Langbaum
“Love’s Labor’s Lost” on Stage.
Samuel Taylor Coleridge: From The Lectures of 1811- 1812,
Signet Classics • 256 pp. • 978-0-451-52950-3 • $6.95
Lecture IX; E. M. W. Tillyard: The Tragic Pattern: “The Tem-
MEASURE FOR MEASURE pest”; Bernard Knox: “The Tempest” and the Ancient Comic
Tradition; Lorie Jerrell Leininger: The Miranda Trap: Sexism
S. Nagarajan
and Racism in Shakespeare’s “Tempest”; Sylvan Barnet:
William Hazlitt: From Characters of Shakespeare’s Plays;
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