The "Trojan Women"and Other Plays

Euripides (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

224 Seiten

2001
Oxford University Press (Verlag)
978-0-19-283987-9 (ISBN)

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In these three war plays, Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. Yet the battleground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit.

Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battleground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in The Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. Andromache, the slave-concubine of her husband's killer, endures her existence in the victor's country with a Stoic nobility. Of their time yet timeless, these plays insist on the victory of the female spirit amid the horrors visited on them by the gods and men during war.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	1.12.2001
Co-Autor	Edith Hall, James Morwood
Zusatzinfo	1 map
Verlagsort	Oxford
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Anglistik / Amerikanistik
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
ISBN-10	0-19-283987-X / 019283987X
ISBN-13	978-0-19-283987-9 / 9780192839879
Zustand	Neuware