| Description |
1 online resource (257 pages). |
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polychrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Series |
Plays and Playwrights
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Plays and Playwrights.
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| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Introduction --- 1. Domesticating Tragedy. 1. Playmaker and Image-Breaker -- 2. The Family Saga: Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigeneia at Aulis -- 3. Women and Men: Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus -- 4. The Comic Touch: Cyclops, Ion, Orestes, Electra, Bacchae, Children of Heracles, Helen --- II. Powerful Forces: The Grand Passions. 5. War and the Military: Rhesus, Trojan Women, Suppliants, Iphigeneia at Aulis -- 6. Revenge: Electra, Hecuba, Children of Heracles, Andromache, Medea -- 7. Immortals and Mortals: Alcestis, Iphigeneia Among the Taurians, Electra, Rhesus, Ion, Hippolytus, Bacchae -- 8. Sanity, Madness and Responsibility: Orestes, Heracles, Bacchae, Electra --- III. Theatre Theatrical. 9. Playing the Game: Illusion and Reality: Hecuba, Suppliants, Ion, Rhesus, Helen, Bacchae -- 10. Great Roles: Medea, Alcestis, Heracles, Hippolytus, Iphigeneia at Aulis, Hecuba, Electra, Helen, Bacchae -- 11. Heirs to the Legacy: Shaw, Strindberg, Brecht, Pirandello, Anouilh, Sondheim, Frisch --- Appendix: A plot summary of all nineteen surviving plays. |
| Summary |
Euripides Our Contemporary is a major new study of the work of the great classical tragedian that illuminates his work and demonstrates both its vitality and how it continues to speak to us today. Taking a thematic approach to Euripides' plays it provides the reader with a wide-ranging and thorough appreciation of the writer's entire canon. For students, teachers and practitioners this is the best single-volume treatment of the writer's work, considering the plays for their accessibility and for their focus on issues and concerns which are as significant as ever in the modern world. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Euripides -- Criticism and interpretation.
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Euripides. |
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Criticism and interpretation. |
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Euripides. |
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Euripides. |
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Mythology, Greek, in literature.
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Mythology, Greek, in literature. |
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Tragedy.
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Tragedy. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Walton, J. Michael. Euripides our contemporary. London : Methuen Drama, 2009 vi, 250 pages ; 22 cm 9781408112045 (DLC) 10835912 |
| ISBN |
9781408143926 (electronic book) |
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1408143925 (electronic book) |
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9781408112045 (paperback) |
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1408112043 (paperback) |
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