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Oedipus Rex  (The Theban Plays, #1)
Medea
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The Letters of a Portuguese Nun
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
The Epic of Gilgamesh
The Symposium
Lysistrata
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August Wilhelm von Schlegel
Romantic poetry, on the other hand, is the expression of the secret attraction to a choas which lies concealed in the very bosom of the ordered universe, and is perpetually striving for marvellous births; the life-giving spirit of primal love broods here anew on the face of the water. The former (the antique) is more simple, clear, and like to nature in the self-existent perfection of her separate works; the latter (the romantic) notwithstanding its fragmentary appearance, approaches more to the ...more
August Wilhelm Schlegel, Lectures on Dramatic Art and Literature

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