9 Best plays books like The Gospel at Colonus by Lee Breuer

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The Gospel at Colonus

By: Lee Breuer

3.50

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

“I’ve been in a lot of shows in my life, and I've thought a lot of ‘em were pretty good, but this i…

If you liked the plays plot in The Gospel at Colonus by Lee Breuer , here is a list of 9 books like this:

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1. 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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2. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • mythology
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3. The Bacchae

By: Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

Format: 96 pages, Paperback

Euripides' classic drama about the often mortifying consequences of the unbridled--and frequently h… read more

Similar categories in Euripides's The Bacchae book and Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus

  • theatre
  • plays
  • mythology
"Cleverness is not wisdom."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"He who believes needs no explanation."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish."

-Euripides, The Bacchae

"Prepare yourselves for the roaring voice of the God of Joy!"

-Euripides, The Bacchae

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4. The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

By: Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

Format: 336 pages, Paperback

Alternate covers of this ISBN here, here, here, here. Most recent cover is here. In the Oresteia… read more

Similar categories in Robert Fagles's The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides book and Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus

  • theatre
  • plays
  • mythology
"I cannot not grieve."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Learning comes through pain."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Do I not live? Badly, I know, but I live."

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

"Nothing forces us to know What we do not want to know Except pain"

-Robert Fagles, The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

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5. FantasticLand

By: Mike Bockoven

3.90

Format: 272 pages, Hardcover

Since the 1970s, FantasticLand has been the theme park where “Fun is Guaranteed!” But when a hurric… read more

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"One more thing. I...I kind of hate people. Seriously, I've thought about how to phrase this and the best thing I can say isn't, "I'm not a people person," or something like that. It's that I hate peo…"

-Mike Bockoven, FantasticLand

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6. King Lear

By: William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

Format: 338 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Shakespeare’s King Lear challenges us with the magnitude, intensity, and sheer duration of the pain… read more

Similar categories in William Shakespeare's King Lear book and Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus

  • theatre
  • plays
"Fortune love you."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"She is herself a dowry."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"All dark and comfortless."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

"Nothing can come of nothing."

-William Shakespeare, King Lear

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7. Galileo

By: Bertolt Brecht , Eric Bentley , Charles Laughton

4.43

Format: None pages, Paperback

Considered by many to be one of Brecht's masterpieces, Galileoexplores the question of a scientist'… read more

Similar categories in Bertolt Brecht's Galileo book and Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus

  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
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8. 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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  • theatre
  • plays
  • mythology
  • drama
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9. Molora

By: Yael Farber

4.60

Format: None pages, Paperback

Yael Farber uses the Oresteia trilogy as a metaphor through which to revisit the horrors endured by… read more

Similar categories in Yael Farber's Molora book and Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus

  • theatre
  • plays
  • mythology
  • drama

10. 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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11. The Tempest

By: William Shakespeare

4.27

Format: 127 pages,

In The Tempest, long considered one of Shakespeare's most lyrical plays, Prospero--a magician on an… read more

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12. 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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13. 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

Similar categories in Homer's The Iliad book and Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus

  • mythology
"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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14. The Island

By: Athol Fugard

3.78

Format: None pages, None

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  • theatre
  • plays
  • drama
Cover of The Gospel at Colonus by Lee Breuer

15. The Gospel at Colonus

By: Lee Breuer

3.50

Format: 64 pages, Paperback

“I’ve been in a lot of shows in my life, and I've thought a lot of ‘em were pretty good, but this i… read more

Similar categories in Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus book and Lee Breuer's The Gospel at Colonus

  • theatre
  • plays
  • mythology
  • drama

9 Best theatre books like The Gospel at Colonus by Lee Breuer

Transform Your Habits

Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)

Sophocles , J.E. Thomas , Elizabeth Osborne

4.00

Transform Your Habits

The Bacchae

Euripides , Kenneth McLeish , None

3.92

Transform Your Habits

The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides

Robert Fagles , Aeschylus , William Bedell Stanford

4.01

Transform Your Habits

King Lear

William Shakespeare , William James Rolfe

3.91

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17 must-read fiction books like Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2) by Sophocles, Eamon Grennan, Rachel Kitzinger

Transform Your Habits

Hippolytos

Euripides , Robert Bagg

3.81

Transform Your Habits

Herakles

Euripides , Christian Wolff , Thomas Sleigh

3.88

Transform Your Habits

Ion

Euripides

3.71

Transform Your Habits

Electra

Euripides , Janet Lempke

2.86

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