<p>In this characteristically concise, witty, and lucid book, Terry Eagleton turns his attention to the questions we should ask about literature, but rarely do. What is literature? Can we even speak of "literature" at all? What do different...

"Euripides I" contains the plays "Alcestis", translated by Richmond Lattimore; "Medea", translated by Oliver Taplin; "The Children of Heracles", translated by Mark Griffith; and "Hippolytus", translated by David Grene. Sixty years ago, the University...

"Euripides II" contains the plays "Andromache", translated by Deborah Roberts; "Hecuba", translated by William Arrowsmith; "The Suppliant Women", translated by Frank William Jones; and "Electra", translated by Emily Townsend Vermeule. Sixty years ago...

"Euripides III" contains the plays "Heracles", translated by William Arrowsmith; "The Trojan Women", translated by Richmond Lattimore; "Iphigenia among the Taurians", translated by Anne Carson; and "Ion", translated by Ronald Frederick Willetts. Sixt...

"Euripides IV" contains the plays "Helen", translated by Richmond Lattimore; "The Phoenician Women", translated by Elizabeth Wyckoff; and "Orestes", translated by William Arrowsmith. Sixty years ago, the University of Chicago Press undertook a moment...

"Euripides V" includes the plays "The Bacchae", translated by William Arrowsmith; "Iphigenia in Aulis", translated by Charles R. Walker; "The Cyclops", translated by William Arrowsmith; and "Rhesus", translated by Richmond Lattimore. Sixty years ago,...

Chris Beckett grew up in 1960s Ethiopia, a country he describes as a "barefoot empire, home of black-maned lions... old priests decked out like butterflies and blazing young singers of Ethio-jazz". Ethiopia Boy plunges the reader into praise poems th...

An actor's deepest desire is to be understood. But when asked to pronounce such words as "chanson", "phantasime", or "quaestor", many otherwise unflappable actors can be rendered speechless. "The Eloquent Shakespeare" aims to untie those tongues a...

Elves make magic for a poor shoemaker and his wife in this much-loved tale originally told by the Brothers Grimm.

Shortly after the debut of "Exorcism" in 1920, Eugene O'Neill suddenly canceled production and ordered all extant copies of the drama destroyed. For over ninety years, it was believed that the play was irrevocably lost, until it was recently discover...