"Story of a young officer and a crippled girl, a tragedy of prewar army life in Austria." --

"Challenges many of the traditional assumptions about "Hamlet" and forces a re-evaluation of the bard's intent and accomplishment." --

Biography of Aeschylus -- Plot summary of, list of characters in, and critical views on: the Agamemnon -- the Choephori -- the Eumenides.

An authoritative, modernized edition of the complete works of the great Elizabethan dramatist offers the complete texts of every comedy, tragedy, and history play, along with key facts about each work, a plot summary, major roles, sources, textual history, glossaries, and other helpful textual notes.

Articles, essays, and reviews provide a wide range of information and opinion about Sophocles as a dramatist, his universally recognized "Oedipus the King," and focused topics, such as a specific technique or theme he employed.

The scene is a middle-class home in Piscataway, New Jersey, where Ozzie Ann (the mother) and Harry (the father) await the return of their Vietnam veteran son, David, and his native bride, Liat. Also on hand are younger brother Et, a sex-obsessed high school junior who eats cornflakes from his unzipped pants; and Hazel, the irrepressible black maid (portrayed by a male performer) who is the real power in the household. When David and Liat arrive they...