Euripides our contemporary /
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 thor...
Основен автор: | Walton, J. Michael, 1939- |
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Формат: | Електронна книга |
Език: | English |
Публикувано: |
London :
Methuen Drama,
2009.
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Серия: |
Plays and Playwrights.
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Онлайн достъп: |
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Euripides our contemporary. |
Съдържание:
- 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.