Peace

EBook Description: The extensive commentary of this play explores matters of all sorts, but it focuses in particular on the realities of daily life in classical Athens and also examines the practical problems of staging. The substantial introduction includes essays on Aristophanes' early career, the politics of the Greek world in the late 420s, and the Poet's theology

Philoctetes in Greek mythology, son of Poias. He acquired, by gift, the bow and arrow of Hercules by lighting the pyre on which the hero was consumed alive. On his way to the Trojan War, Philoctetes was bitten by a snake. Because the smell of his wound and his cries made him offensive, his companions left him on the desolate island of Lemnos.

Pillars of Society

Pillars of Society was considered to be one of Ibsen`s greatest theatrical successes, above all at German theaters. According to Michael Meyer, the Play is said to have been staged at no fewer than 27 theaters in Germany and Austria by the end of 1878!

Pygmalion

Based on the classical myth, Pygmalion plays on the complex business of human relationships in a social world.

Riders To The Sea

This play sums up the essence of the constant struggle of the islanders against their relentless enemy, the sea. Many critics rate this play as Synge's best in spite of its brevity.

Sejanus His Fall

Great Roman tragedy is more intensively researched than any that has previously appeared. Based on extensive collation of the 1605 and 1616. It provides an explanation for the charge of treason leveled at Jonson over Sejanus and for which he had to answer to the Privy Council.

SH Mintardja - Tanah Warisan

Diambil Dari Situs Kedaulatan Rakyat (www.kr.co.id) (07-08-2001 - 02-06-2002)

St. Patrick's Day

Sheridan's St.Patrick's Day was originally staged at covent garden theatre in 1775 on Saint Patrick's Day which annually celebrates the patron saint of Ireland on March 17.

Suppliant Maidens and Other Plays

Classic work from the earliest of the three greatest of the Ancient Greek tragedians.

Swan Song

Swan Song, Chekhov's first vaudeville sketch, is a Russian forebear of ''A Life in the Theater'' an aging actor's lament recounted to a prompter who inhabits the stage like a theater cat.

Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1

Tamburlaine the Great, Part 1 by Christopher Marlowe

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