Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human
Seiten
2016
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1843-7 (ISBN)
Lexington Books (Verlag)
978-1-4985-1843-7 (ISBN)
Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human offers the first single-volume detailed reading of the nineteen canonical Euripidean plays in nearly fifty years. The dramas are examined not only in their diversity but also for the themes and ideas that bind them together as the work of a single remarkable playwright.
Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human presents the first single-volume reading in nearly fifty years of all of Euripides’ surviving plays. Rather than examining one or a handful of dramas in monograph or article form, Mark Ringer insists on the thematic and stylistic parallels that unite a diverse canon of works. Euripides is often referred to as the most modern of the three Ancient Greek tragedians, but in what way can the work of this fifth-century B.C. artist be claimed as modern? The multi-layered presentation of character is new within the context of Athenian Tragedy. The plays also reveal equal concern with the preservation and re-vitalization of tradition, especially with respect to the portrayal of the Olympian gods. Euripidean drama upholds tradition just as vigorously as it posits a new kind of realism in character portrayal in the Ancient Theatre. Euripidean drama fuses what was old with what was new in order to revitalize and perpetuate the art of tragedy.
This book will be of interest to professionals and students in the fields of classics, Greek drama in translation or in the original Greek, theater studies, comparative literature, tragedy, and religion.
Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human presents the first single-volume reading in nearly fifty years of all of Euripides’ surviving plays. Rather than examining one or a handful of dramas in monograph or article form, Mark Ringer insists on the thematic and stylistic parallels that unite a diverse canon of works. Euripides is often referred to as the most modern of the three Ancient Greek tragedians, but in what way can the work of this fifth-century B.C. artist be claimed as modern? The multi-layered presentation of character is new within the context of Athenian Tragedy. The plays also reveal equal concern with the preservation and re-vitalization of tradition, especially with respect to the portrayal of the Olympian gods. Euripidean drama upholds tradition just as vigorously as it posits a new kind of realism in character portrayal in the Ancient Theatre. Euripidean drama fuses what was old with what was new in order to revitalize and perpetuate the art of tragedy.
This book will be of interest to professionals and students in the fields of classics, Greek drama in translation or in the original Greek, theater studies, comparative literature, tragedy, and religion.
Mark Ringer is professor of theatre at Marymount Manhattan College.
Preface
Chapter One: Introduction: Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human
Chapter Two: Rhesus
Chapter Three: Alcestis
Chapter Four: Medea
Chapter Five: The Children of Heracles
Chapter Six: Hippolytus
Chapter Seven: Andromache
Chapter Eight: Hecuba
Chapter Nine: The Suppliant Women
Chapter Ten: Electra
Chapter Eleven: Trojan Women
Chapter Twelve: Heracles
Chapter Thirteen: Iphigenia among the Taurians
Chapter Fourteen: Ion
Chapter Fifteen: Helen
Chapter Sixteen: The Phoenician Women
Chapter Seventeen: Orestes
Chapter Eighteen: The Cyclops
Chapter Nineteen: Iphigenia at Aulis
Chapter Twenty: The Bacchae
Afterword
| Erscheinungsdatum | 22.08.2016 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | Lanham, MD |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 161 x 233 mm |
| Gewicht | 735 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Lyrik / Dramatik ► Dramatik / Theater |
| Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie ► Philosophie Altertum / Antike | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4985-1843-5 / 1498518435 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4985-1843-7 / 9781498518437 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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