Three Great Plays of Euripides
Author | : Euripides |
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Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Tragedy) |
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Author | : Euripides |
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Release | : 1983 |
Genre | : Greek drama (Tragedy) |
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Author | : EURIPIDES. |
Publisher | : Signet Book |
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Release | : 1958-10 |
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ISBN | : 9780451618696 |
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : Signet Book |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Drama |
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Media - Hippolytus - Helen.
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 276 |
Release | : 1998 |
Genre | : Electra (Greek mythology) |
ISBN | : 9780192824424 |
`the most tragic of the poets'AristotleEuripides was one of the most popular and controversial of all Greek tragedians, and his plays are marked by an independence of thought, ingenious dramatic devices, and a subtle variety of register and mood. He is also remarkable for the prominence he gave to female characters, whether heroines ofvirtue or vice. In the ethically shocking Medea, the first known child-killing mother in Greek myth to perform the deed in cold blood manipulates her world in order to wreak vengeance on her treacherous husband. Hippolytus sees Phaedra's confession of her passion for her stepson herald disaster,while Electra's heroine helps her brother murder their mother in an act that mingles justice and sin. Lastly, lighter in tone, the satyr drama, Helen, is an exploration of the impossibility of certitude as brilliantly paradoxical as the three famous tragedies.This new translation does full justice to Euripides's range of tone and gift for narrative. A lucid introduction provides substantial analysis of each play, complete with vital explanations of the traditions and background to Euripides's world.
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ISBN | : 9780780758810 |
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 612 |
Release | : 1998-10-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780451527004 |
A modern translation exclusive to signet From perhaps the greatest of the ancient Greek playwrights comes this collection of plays, including Alcestis, Hippolytus, Ion, Electra, Iphigenia at Aulis, Iphigenia Among the Taurians, Medea, The Bacchae, The Trojan Women, and The Cyclops.
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton |
Total Pages | : 160 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Alcestis (Greek mythology) |
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Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : Signet Book |
Total Pages | : 196 |
Release | : 1958 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 9780451621122 |
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : New York Review of Books |
Total Pages | : 322 |
Release | : 2008-09-16 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 1590172531 |
Now in paperback. Euripides, the last of the three great tragedians of ancient Athens, reached the height of his renown during the disastrous Peloponnesian War, when democratic Athens was brought down by its own outsized ambitions. “Euripides,” the classicist Bernard Knox has written, “was born never to live in peace with himself and to prevent the rest of mankind from doing so.” His plays were shockers: he unmasked heroes, revealing them as foolish and savage, and he wrote about the powerless–women and children, slaves and barbarians–for whom tragedy was not so much exceptional as unending. Euripides’ plays rarely won first prize in the great democratic competitions of ancient Athens, but their combustible mixture of realism and extremism fascinated audiences throughout the Greek world. In the last days of the Peloponnesian War, Athenian prisoners held captive in far-off Sicily were said to have won their freedom by reciting snatches of Euripides’ latest tragedies. Four of those tragedies are presented here in new translations by the contemporary poet and classicist Anne Carson. They are Herakles, in which the hero swaggers home to destroy his own family; Hekabe, set after the Trojan War, in which Hektor’s widow takes vengeance on her Greek captors; Hippolytos, about love and the horror of love; and the strange tragic-comedy fable Alkestis, which tells of a husband who arranges for his wife to die in his place. The volume also contains brief introductions by Carson to each of the plays along with two remarkable framing essays: “Tragedy: A Curious Art Form” and “Why I Wrote Two Plays About Phaidra.”
Author | : Euripides |
Publisher | : Bantam Classics |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 1990-08-01 |
Genre | : Drama |
ISBN | : 0553213636 |
The first playwright of democracy, Euripides wrote with enduring insight and biting satire about social and political problems of Athenian life. In contrast to his contemporaries, he brought an exciting--and, to the Greeks, a stunning--realism to the "pure and noble form" of tragedy. For the first time in history, heroes and heroines on the stage were not idealized: as Sophocles himself said, Euripides shows people not as they ought to be, but as they actually are.