Nick Hern Books, 2007

Drama Classics

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Roles: Total (7), Female (2), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Aeschylus’ The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies concerning the murder of King Agamemnon of Argos, together with its aftermath. The name derives from the character Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, who sets out to avenge his father...

Nick Hern Books, 2007

Drama Classics

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Roles: Total (9), Female (4), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Aeschylus’ The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies concerning the murder of King Agamemnon of Argos, together with its aftermath. The name derives from the character Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, who sets out to avenge his father...

Nick Hern Books, 2007

Drama Classics

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Roles: Total (9), Female (5), Male (4), Unassigned (0)

...Aeschylus’ The Oresteia is a trilogy of Greek tragedies concerning the murder of King Agamemnon of Argos, together with its aftermath. The name derives from the character Orestes, the son of Agamemnon, who sets out to avenge his father...

Methuen Drama, 1991

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Taking the 480 BC destruction of the invading Persian forces as its starting point, Aeschylus's Persians shows the lamenting Persian Queen, mother of Xerxes, far away from the battlefield as she learns of the evisceration of the men of her...

Methuen Drama, 1991

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (8), Female (0), Male (8), Unassigned (0)

...Prometheus the Titan, cousin of Zeus, has given mankind fire. Further, he has thwarted Zeus's plan to obliterate the human race, and, in saving them, has taught them many arts, from writing to agriculture, architecture to medicine. His...

Methuen Drama, 1991

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (8), Female (3), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...In the wake of Oedipus's exile, the cursed sons of his incestuous marriage, Eteocles and Polynices vow to avoid further bloodshed by ruling Thebes in alternate years. However, when the Eteocles refuses to step down after the first year...

Methuen Drama, 1991

Classical Dramatists

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Roles: Total (6), Female (3), Male (3), Unassigned (0)

...Suppliants tells the story of the Danaids, the fifty daughters of Danaus, who seemed destined for a dynastic marriage to their cousins, the fifty sons of Danaus's brother Aegyptus. However, when warned by the gods that his brother plans...

Faber and Faber, 2017

Faber Drama

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Roles: Total (6), Female (1), Male (5), Unassigned (0)

...Fifty women board a boat in North Africa. They flee across the Mediterranean, leaving everything behind. They are escaping forced marriage in their home and seeking asylum in Greece. Written 2,500 years ago, The Suppliant...