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Author : Günther Zuntz
Release : 1955
Genre : Athens (Greece)
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Book Synopsis The Political Plays of Euripides by : Günther Zuntz
Download or read book The Political Plays of Euripides written by Günther Zuntz. This book was released on 1955. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Daniel Adam Mendelsohn
Release : 2005
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays by : Daniel Adam Mendelsohn
Download or read book Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays written by Daniel Adam Mendelsohn. This book was released on 2005. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Daniel Mendelsohn makes use of insights into classical Greek conceptions of gender and Athenian notions of civic identity to demonstrate that the plays 'Children of Herakles' and 'Suppliant Women' by Euripides are subtle and coherent exercises in political theorizing.
Author : Victoria Wohl
Release : 2020-06-09
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis Euripides and the Politics of Form by : Victoria Wohl
Download or read book Euripides and the Politics of Form written by Victoria Wohl. This book was released on 2020-06-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can we make sense of the innovative structure of Euripidean drama? And what political role did tragedy play in the democracy of classical Athens? These questions are usually considered to be mutually exclusive, but this book shows that they can only be properly answered together. Providing a new approach to the aesthetics and politics of Greek tragedy, Victoria Wohl argues that the poetic form of Euripides' drama constitutes a mode of political thought. Through readings of select plays, she explores the politics of Euripides' radical aesthetics, showing how formal innovation generates political passions with real-world consequences. Euripides' plays have long perplexed readers. With their disjointed plots, comic touches, and frequent happy endings, they seem to stretch the boundaries of tragedy. But the plays' formal traits—from their exorbitantly beautiful lyrics to their arousal and resolution of suspense—shape the audience's political sensibilities and ideological attachments. Engendering civic passions, the plays enact as well as express political ideas. Wohl draws out the political implications of Euripidean aesthetics by exploring such topics as narrative and ideological desire, the politics of pathos, realism and its utopian possibilities, the logic of political allegory, and tragedy's relation to its historical moment. Breaking through the impasse between formalist and historicist interpretations of Greek tragedy, Euripides and the Politics of Form demonstrates that aesthetic structure and political meaning are mutually implicated—and that to read the plays poetically is necessarily to read them politically.
Author : Daniel Mendelsohn
Release : 2002-10-31
Genre : Literary Criticism
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Book Synopsis Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays by : Daniel Mendelsohn
Download or read book Gender and the City in Euripides' Political Plays written by Daniel Mendelsohn. This book was released on 2002-10-31. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is the first book-length study of Euripides' so-called 'political plays (Children of Herakles and Suppliant Women) to appear in half a century. Still disdained as the anomalously patriotic or propagandistic works of a playwright elsewhere famous for his subversive, ironic artistic ethos, the two works in question, notorious for their uncomfortable juxtaposition of political speeches and scenes of extreme feminine emotion, continue to be dismissed by scholars of tragedy as artistic failures unworthy of the author of Medea, Hippolytus, and Bacchae. The present study makes use of recent insights into classical Greek conceptions of gender (in real life and on stage) and Athenian notions of civic identity to demonstrate that the political plays are, in fact, intellectually subtle and structurally coherent exercises in political theorizing - works that use complex interactions between female and male characters to explore the advantages, and costs, of being a member of the polis.
Author : Euripides
Release : 1990-08-01
Genre : Drama
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Book Synopsis Ten Plays by Euripides by : Euripides
Download or read book Ten Plays by Euripides written by Euripides. This book was released on 1990-08-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
