9 Best plays books like Gorgojo by Plautus

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Gorgojo

By: Plautus

3.18

Format: 61 pages, Paperback

El arte plautino, su comicidad con una agilidad nunca precipitada y un ritmo cuidadosamente medido,…

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1. Axolotl

By: Julio Cortázar

4.15

Format: 7 pages, None

"They looked and knew. That laid the claim. They were not animals." read more

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  • classics
"Above all else, their eyes obsessed me. In the standing tanks on either side of them, different fishes showed me the simple stupidity of their handsome eyes so similar to our own. The eyes of the axo…"

-Julio Cortázar, Axolotl

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2. The Comedy of Errors

By: William Shakespeare

3.72

Format: 112 pages, Paperback

Excerpt from Die Kom�die der Irrungen Geste Grayorum or the History of the High and mighty Princ… read more

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  • plays
  • classics
  • comedy
"Why should their liberty than ours be more?"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"Mi corazón ora por él, aunque mi lengua lo maldiga."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"El tiempo es insolvente y debe más de lo que tiene."

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

"¡A cuántos tontos enamorados esclaviza la locura de los celos!"

-William Shakespeare, The Comedy of Errors

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3. Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

By: Pablo Neruda , W.S. Merwin , Cristina García

4.21

Format: 80 pages, Paperback

When it appeared in 1924, this work launched into the international spotlight a young and unknown p… read more

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  • classics
"Tonight I Can Write"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I remembered you with my soul clenched"

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"I want to fill my mouth with your name."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

"Every day you play with the light of the universe."

-Pablo Neruda, Twenty Love Poems and a Song of Despair

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4. Poetics

By: Aristotle , Malcolm Heath

3.59

Format: None pages, Paperback

'The plot is the source and the soul of tragedy' In his near-contemporary account of Greek tragedy,… read more

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  • classics
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5. Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Format: None pages, Paperback

"...what man wins more happiness than just its shape and the ruin when that shape collapses?" Sopho… read more

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  • classics
  • plays
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6. Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)

By: Aeschylus , Alan H. Sommerstein

3.85

Format: 320 pages, cloth

Sommerstein presents a freshly constituted text, with introduction and commentary, of Eumenides, th… read more

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  • classics
  • plays
"My heart's a dance of fear."

-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)

"Quando dorme la mente scintilla di mille occhi"

-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)

"Unanimous hatred is the greatest medicine for a human community."

-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)

"ATHENA: There are two sides to this dispute. I've heard only one half the argument. (...) So you two parties, summon your witnesses, set out your proofs, with sworn evidence to back your stories. Onc…"

-Aeschylus, Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)

7. Electra

By: Sophocles , J. Michael Walton , None

4.33

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

The Drama Classic edition of Sophocles' version of the Electra myth. read more

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  • classics
  • plays
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8. De Profundis

By: Oscar Wilde , Richard Ellmann

4.03

Format: 246 pages,

De Profundis (Latin: "from the depths") is a 50,000 word letter written by Oscar Wilde during his i… read more

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  • classics
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9. Canción de tumba

By: Julián Herbert

3.24

Format: 0 pages,

Cancion de tumba narra la azarosa vida de Guadalupe Chavez, prostituta y madre del narrador que, a … read more

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10. Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)

By: Sophocles , Eamon Grennan , Rachel Kitzinger

3.53

Format: 39 pages, Paperback

The latest title to join the acclaimed Greek Tragedy in New Translations series, Sophocles' Oedipus… read more

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  • classics
  • plays
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11. Huesos En El Desierto

By: Sergio González Rodríguez

4.06

Format: 285 pages, Paperback

The setting: The city of Juarez, in the state of Chihuahua, on the border between Mexico and the US… read more

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12. Prometheus Bound

By: Aeschylus , None , James Scully , C. John Herington

3.13

Format: 192 pages, Paperback

Featuring an insightful introduction, comprehensive commentary on plot, characters, structure, and … read more

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  • classics
  • plays
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13. Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

By: Aeschylus , Patricia E. Easterling , John Harrison , Judith Affleck , None

3.83

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Treating ancient plays as living drama. Classical Greek drama is brought vividly to life in this se… read more

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  • classics
  • plays
"Every medicine is vain."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"A curse burns bright on crime."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"There is no avoidance in delay."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

"In war, the first casualty is truth."

-Aeschylus, Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)

14. Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)

By: Sophocles , J.E. Thomas

4.06

Format: None pages, Paperback

The curse placed on Oedipus lingers and haunts a younger generation in this new and brilliant trans… read more

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15. Pro M. Caelio Oratio

By: Marcus Tullius Cicero , R.G. Austin

4.00

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

In 56 B.C., M. Caelius Rufus was prosecuted for vis by L. Sempronius Atratinus in a trial with impo… read more

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16. The Decapitated Chicken and Other Stories

By: Jean Franco , Margaret Sayers Peden , Horacio Quiroga , None

4.00

Format: 186 pages, Paperback

Horacio Quiroga's short stories are infused with the themes of life and death that so obsessed him.… read more

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17. Theogony/Works and Days

By: Hesiod , None

4.30

Format: 256 pages, Paperback

Hesiod, one of the oldest known Greek poets, stands out as the first personality in European litera… read more

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18. Cycle of the Werewolf

By: Stephen King , Bernie Wrightson

3.10

Format: None pages, Paperback

The first scream came from the snowbound railwayman who felt the fangs ripping at his throat. The n… read more

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19. Metamorphoses

By: Ovid , David Raeburn , Denis Feeney

3.99

Format: 240 pages,

Metamorphoses (from Greek meta meta and morphe morphe, meaning "changes of shape"), is a Latin narr… read more

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20. The Complete Poems

By: Catullus , Guy Lee

3.37

Format: None pages, Paperback

Of all Greek and Latin poets Catullus is perhaps the most accessible to the modern reader. Dealing … read more

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21. The Odyssey

By: Homer , Robert Fagles , Bernard Knox , E.V. Rieu , None

3.53

Format: 349 pages, Paperback

Literature's grandest evocation of life's journey, at once an ageless human story and an individual… read more

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22. Medea

By: Euripides , Rex Warner

3.42

Format: 32 pages, Paperback

One of the most powerful and enduring of Greek tragedies, Medeacenters on the myth of Jason, leader… read more

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23. Apology

By: Plato , James J. Helm

4.20

Format: 127 pages, Paperback

The Apology of Socrates is Plato's version of the speech given by Socrates as he unsuccessfully def… read more

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  • classics
"Kötülük ölümden daha hızlı koşar."

-Plato, Apology

"Loin de parler quand on me paie, et de me taire quand on me donne rien."

-Plato, Apology

"As long as I draw breath and am able, I won't give up practicing philosophy."

-Plato, Apology

"Athenian men, I respect and love you, but I shall obey the god rather than you..."

-Plato, Apology

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24. The Iliad

By: Homer

3.91

Format: 848 pages, Hardcover

One of the foremost achievements in Western literature, Homer's Iliad tells the story of the darkes… read more

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  • classics
"I say no wealth is worth my life."

-Homer, The Iliad

"These were the colloquies in heaven."

-Homer, The Iliad

"The sort of words a man says is the sort he hears in return."

-Homer, The Iliad

"Antilochus! You're the most appalling driver in the world! Go to hell!"

-Homer, The Iliad

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25. Aquí no es Miami

By: Fernanda Melchor

4.17

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Las crónicas de Fernanda Melchor dan cuenta de la degradación humana en uno de sus aspectos más sór… read more

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"El estilo narrativo de Jorge me intrigaba: sabía entretejer el relato directo de lo sucedido con fragmentos de diálogo, con ademanes aferrados a su cuerpo, con sus propios pensamientos, los presentes…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami

"Siempre me ha parecido inquietante la contigüidad que existe entre la crónica de sociales y la nota roja, no sólo porque estas dos secciones suelen aparecer juntas en los diarios del puerto (a menudo…"

-Fernanda Melchor, Aquí no es Miami

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26. Hércules, el héroe que no quiso serlo

By: Pol Gise

4.17

Format: 352 pages, Paperback

Vuelve la mitología griega narrada como un buen salseo: ahora le toca a Hércules contar su historia… read more

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27. Hermanito

By: Ibrahima Balde

4.38

Format: 144 pages, Paperback

Este libro te cambiará. Esta historia arranca así: «Estoy en Europa pero yo no quería venir a Europ… read more

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"«Miñán, ¿por qué querías irte a Europa? No era eso lo que habíamos acordado, te dije que debías seguir estudiando, te dije que tenías unos ojos muy grandes.» Sí, ojos grandes y catorce años, la últim…"

-Ibrahima Balde, Hermanito

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28. La suocera

By: Terence

3.17

Format: 160 pages, Paperback

Testo latino a fronte A dispetto dell'accoglienza piuttosto fredda ricevuta alla sua prima rappres… read more

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  • classics
  • plays
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29. Gorgojo

By: Plautus

3.18

Format: 61 pages, Paperback

El arte plautino, su comicidad con una agilidad nunca precipitada y un ritmo cuidadosamente medido,… read more

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  • plays
  • classics
  • comedy
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30. The Aeneid

By: Virgil

3.87

Format: None pages, Kindle Edition

The founding epic of Rome, rendered in a fluid, metrical translation that sings Virgil’s stately ve… read more

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  • classics
"Death's brother, sleep."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"No help or hope of help existed."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Forsan et haec olim meminisse juvabit."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

"Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco."

-Virgil, The Aeneid

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4.15

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3.72

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4.21

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3.59

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3.81

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Euripides , Christian Wolff , Thomas Sleigh

3.88

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3.71

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