A collection of five daring, radical reconfigurations of ancient plays and myths by US playwright Caridad Svich, winner of a 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement.

This collection of essays on the subject of theatre and various forms of censorship gathers in an original and stimulating manner the voices of academics, practitioners and artist-scholars.

Sophocles’s Oedipus Tyrannus (also known by its Latin title Oedipus Rex) is one of the world’s fundamental works of literature, the model for Aristotle’s theory of tragedy, and the inspiration for Freud’s Oedipus Complex.

This book is an inédit presentation of three different texts referencing a Finnish sawmill through Sanskrit etymologies and the legend of ‘The Shining Ones,’ Giordano Bruno, and an Italian disaster.

Tragic writing emerges as a representation of a sacrificial crisis that calls into question the human relation to the divine.

Reflections on philosophy, eros, and contemporary tragic drama.

Renati the King is a play that explores the final hours of Rene Descartes. It is also a play about the perennial question of how love is addressed, who embodies it, and at what level of mastery it is exercised.

In this volume, Mark Daniel Cohen offers, in the first part, a fresh and intelligent look at Sophocles, re-writing Antigone almost as a Beckettian version of Tristan and Isolde.