Macbeth - Prijzen

Euripides - Trojan Women, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Ion V 4 L010 (Also available, L258, L063 (Trans. Kovacs)(Greek)

One of antiquity's greatest poets, Euripides (ca. 485-406 BCE) has been prized in every age for the pathos, terror, surprising plot twists, and intellectual probing of his dramatic creations. Here, in...

Measure for Measure

Since the rediscovery of Elizabethan stage conditions early this century, admiration for Measure for Measure has steadily risen. It is now a favorite with the critics and has attracted widely differen...

L'Assommoir

' Tout L'Assommoir peut se résumer dans cette phrase Fermez les cabarets, ouvrez les écoles ', écrivait Zola en 1877. Afin d'atteindre son idéal - travailler, manger à sa faim et avoir toujours un end...

Les Amours de Psyche et de Cupidon

Macbeth

Referred to by superstitious actors as 'the Scottish play', William Shakespeare's Macbeth is a tragedy in which appalling earthly crimes have lasting supernatural repercussions. This Penguin Shakespea...

Therese Raquin

'A story of paralysing passion' 1860s Paris. In a small dusty haberdasher's shop near the Seine in the dank, narrow Passage du Pont Neuf, the young and beautiful Therese Raquin is trapped into a lo...