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Alcestis

Author : Katharine Beutner
Publisher : Soho Press
ISBN 13 : 1641295511
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (412 download)

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Download or read book Alcestis written by Katharine Beutner and published by Soho Press. This book was released on 2023-09-05 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For fans of The Song of Achilles, a queer and fiercely feminist retelling of a little-known Greek myth: the ultimate story of sacrifice and forbidden desire—now in a deluxe reissue. In Greek myth, Alcestis is known as the ideal wife; she loved her husband so much that she died and went to the Underworld in his place. But who was Alcestis before she was married? Other than her love for Admetus, what circumstances led her to make this ultimate sacrifice? And what happened to her in the three days she spent in the Underworld? Katharine Beutner’s lush, emotionally devastating debut explores the magical reality of Ancient Greece, where gods attend weddings and the afterlife is just a river away, as Alcestis goes on a heroine’s journey from sheltered princess to self-actualized savior—redefining love and discovering her own power. Giving an achingly beautiful voice to the most misunderstood wives of Greek mythology, Alcestis is the Underworld as you’ve never seen it before. This deluxe edition features discussion questions, a craft essay, and a bonus short story.

Euripides: Alcestis

Author : Niall W. Slater
Publisher : A&C Black
ISBN 13 : 1780934742
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Euripides: Alcestis written by Niall W. Slater and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the Alcestis, the title character sacrifices her own life to save that of her husband, Admetus, when he is presented with the opportunity to have someone die in his place. Alcestis compresses within itself both tragedy and its apparent reversal, staging in the process fascinating questions about gender roles, family loyalties, the nature of heroism, and the role of commemoration. Alcestis is Euripides's earliest complete work and his only surviving play from the period preceding the outbreak of the Peloponnesian War. Currently dominant post-structuralist models of Greek tragedy focus on its 'oppositional' role in the discourse of war and public values. This study challenges not only this politicised model of tragic discourse but also both traditional masculinist and more recent feminist readings of the discourse and performance of gender in this remarkable play. The play survived in the performance repertoire of antiquity into the Roman period. Euripides' version strongly influenced the reception of the myth through the middles ages into the Renaissance, and the story enjoyed a lively afterlife through opera. Alcestis' contested reception in the last two centuries charts our changing understanding of tragedy. Niall Slater's study explores the reception and afterlife of the play, as well as its main themes, the myth before the play, the play's historical and social context and the central developments in modern criticism.

Alcestis

Author : Euripedes
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0374527261
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (745 download)

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Download or read book Alcestis written by Euripedes and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2000-09-04 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the years before his death at age sixty-eight in 1998, Hughes translated several classical works with great energy and ingenuity. His Tales from Ovid was called "one of the great works of our century" (Michael Hofmann, The Times, London), his Oresteia of Aeschylus is considered the difinitive version, and his Phèdrewas acclaimed on stage in New York as well as London. Hughes's version of Euripides's Alcestis, the last of his translations, has the great brio of those works, and it is a powerful and moving conclusion to the great final phase of Hughes's career. Euripides was, with Aeschylus and Sophocles, one of the greatest of Greek dramatists. Alcestis tells the story of a king's grief for his wife, Alcestis, who has given her young life so that he may live. As translated by Hughes, the story has a distinctly modern sensibility while retaining the spirit of antiquity. It is a profound meditation on human mortality. Ted Hughes's last book of poems, Birthday Letters, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Prize. He was Poet Laureate to Queen Elizabeth II and lived in Devon, England until he died in 1998.

Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, The Bacchae

Author : Euripides
Publisher : W. W. Norton
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 160 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Three Plays of Euripides: Alcestis, Medea, The Bacchae written by Euripides and published by W. W. Norton. This book was released on 1974 with total page 160 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Euripides and Alcestis

Author : Kiki Gounaridou
Publisher : University Press of America
ISBN 13 : 9780761812319
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (123 download)

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Download or read book Euripides and Alcestis written by Kiki Gounaridou and published by University Press of America. This book was released on 1998 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides and Alcestis demonstrates the inherent presence of indeterminacy in Euripides' play, Alcestis. The author uses about eighty of the scholarly attempts to establish a determinate meaning of the play to exhibit the difficulty and lack of success in previous attempts at interpretation. She recognizes that the meaning of the play is surrounded by ambiguity and indeterminacy and provides an interpretation based on this knowledge. As an interpretation, the author focuses on Admetus' desire in relation to Alcestis' statue and his nature as a fifth century Athenian man while exposing Alcestis as a nonidentity. She also analyzes the issues of representation and spectatorship, showing that the theatrical performance is constructed in order to function as vehicles for the satisfaction of a dominant position-that of Admetus and the spectator of the performance.

Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow

Author : Charles Segal
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780822313601
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (136 download)

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Download or read book Euripides and the Poetics of Sorrow written by Charles Segal and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 1993-10-19 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where is the pleasure in tragedy? This question, how suffering and sorrow become the stuff of aesthetic delight, is at the center of Charles Segal's new book, which collects and expands his recent explorations of Euripides' art. Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, the three early plays interpreted here, are linked by common themes of violence, death, lamentation and mourning, and by their implicit definitions of male and female roles. Segal shows how these plays draw on ancient traditions of poetic and ritual commemoration, particularly epic song, and at the same time refashion these traditions into new forms. In place of the epic muse of martial glory, Euripides, Segal argues, evokes a muse of sorrows who transforms the suffering of individuals into a "common grief for all the citizens," a community of shared feeling in the theater. Like his predecessors in tragedy, Euripides believes death, more than any other event, exposes the deepest truth of human nature. Segal examines the revealing final moments in Alcestis, Hippolytus, and Hecuba, and discusses the playwright's use of these deaths--especially those of women--to question traditional values and the familiar definitions of male heroism. Focusing on gender, the affective dimension of tragedy, and ritual mourning and commemoration, Segal develops and extends his earlier work on Greek drama. The result deepens our understanding of Euripides' art and of tragedy itself.

The Alcestis of Euripides

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 114 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (311 download)

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Download or read book The Alcestis of Euripides written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1920 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1603840222
Total Pages : 247 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus written by Euripides and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 2007-09-15 with total page 247 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new volume of three of Euripides' most celebrated plays offers graceful, economical, metrical translations that convey the wide range of effects of the playwright's verse, from the idiomatic speech of its dialogue to the high formality of its choral odes.

Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians

Author : Justina Gregory
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472027700
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians written by Justina Gregory and published by University of Michigan Press. This book was released on 2011-02-10 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Political by its very nature, Greek tragedy reflects on how life should be lived in the polis, and especially the polis that was democratic Athens. Instructional as well, drama frequently concerns itself with the audience's moral education. Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians draws on these political and didactic functions of tragedy for a close analysis of five plays: Alcestis, Hippolytus, Hecuba, Heracles, and Trojan Women. Clearly written and persuasively argued, this volume addresses itself to all who are interested in Greek tragedy. Nonspecialists and scholars alike will deepen their understanding of this complex writer and the tumultuous period in which he lived. ". . . a lucid presentation of the positive side of Euripidean tragedy, and a thoughtful reminder of the political implications of Greek tragedy." --American Journal of Philology ". . . the principal defect of [this] otherwise excellent study is that it is too short." --Erich Segal, Classical Review ". . . a most stimulating book throughout . . . ." --Greece and Rome Justina Gregory is Professor of Classics, Smith College, where she is head of the department. She has been the recipient of Fulbright and Woodrow Wilson fellowships.

The Political Plays of Euripides

Author : Günther Zuntz
Publisher : Manchester University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 180 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Political Plays of Euripides written by Günther Zuntz and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 1955 with total page 180 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Silent Patient

Author : Alex Michaelides
Publisher : Celadon Books
ISBN 13 : 1250301718
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book The Silent Patient written by Alex Michaelides and published by Celadon Books. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: **THE INSTANT #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER** "An unforgettable—and Hollywood-bound—new thriller... A mix of Hitchcockian suspense, Agatha Christie plotting, and Greek tragedy." —Entertainment Weekly The Silent Patient is a shocking psychological thriller of a woman’s act of violence against her husband—and of the therapist obsessed with uncovering her motive. Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late from a fashion shoot, and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Alicia’s refusal to talk, or give any kind of explanation, turns a domestic tragedy into something far grander, a mystery that captures the public imagination and casts Alicia into notoriety. The price of her art skyrockets, and she, the silent patient, is hidden away from the tabloids and spotlight at the Grove, a secure forensic unit in North London. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. His determination to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband takes him down a twisting path into his own motivations—a search for the truth that threatens to consume him....

Alcestis in the Underworld: Poems

Author : Nina Murray
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781939530127
Total Pages : 80 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (31 download)

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Download or read book Alcestis in the Underworld: Poems written by Nina Murray and published by . This book was released on 2020-05-05 with total page 80 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In myth, Alcestis descends to the Underworld in place of her husband, a king, so he may continue to rule the living. On her return, she and her family live, presumably, happily ever after. But she's learned things no one else knows. Alcestis in the Underworld echoes the poet's life in Moscow as a U.S. diplomat, after growing up in USSR Ukraine.

Eating of the Gods

Author : Jan Kott
Publisher : Northwestern University Press
ISBN 13 : 0810107457
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (11 download)

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Download or read book Eating of the Gods written by Jan Kott and published by Northwestern University Press. This book was released on 1987-06 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Eating of the Gods the distinguished Polish critic Jan Kott reexamines Greek tragedy from the modern perspective. As in his earlier acclaimed Shakespeare Our Contemporary, Kott provides startling insights and intuitive leaps which link our world to that of the ancient Greeks. The title refers to the Bacchae of Euripides, that tragedy of lust, revenge, murder, and "the joy of eating raw flesh" which Kott finds paradigmatic in its violence and bloodshed.

Alcestis in Plain and Simple English (Translated)

Author : Euripides
Publisher : CreateSpace
ISBN 13 : 9781484005446
Total Pages : 146 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (54 download)

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Download or read book Alcestis in Plain and Simple English (Translated) written by Euripides and published by CreateSpace. This book was released on 2013-03-31 with total page 146 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alcestis is one of the greatest greek tragedies ever written. It's wit, even today, is lasting...if you can understand it. Let BookCaps help with this modern retelling of Euripides' classic work! If you have struggled in the past reading the ancient classic, then BookCaps can help you out. We all need refreshers every now and then. Whether you are a student trying to cram for that big final, or someone just trying to understand a book more, BookCaps can help. We are a small, but growing company, and are adding titles every month.

Euripides, 3

Author : Euripides
Publisher : University of Pennsylvania Press
ISBN 13 : 9780812216509
Total Pages : 396 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (165 download)

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Download or read book Euripides, 3 written by Euripides and published by University of Pennsylvania Press. This book was released on 1998-06 with total page 396 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What man would murder his daughter to help a fleet get out to sea, or give his wife over to death in his stead? The tragedies in this Penn Greek Drama Series volume are filled with such dramatic conflicts.

Bacchae and Three Other Plays

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (965 download)

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Download or read book Bacchae and Three Other Plays written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 2020-12-20 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Athenian Tragedy had all but ended with the death of Euripides and in particular with his Bacchae, which is included in this volume and which is often praised by scholars as the best tragedy ever written. This was the very last play he wrote and he did so while he was being hosted by King Archelaus of Macedonia. The play was staged the following year, in 405 BC. Of the surviving nineteen plays (he wrote over ninety) twelve are almost entirely concerned with women. This volume is entirely devoted to that subject: women and the role they play in the lives of men, of their politics and of their daily lives. Women, to Euripides, show the virtues and the ills of a city, his city, his Athens.

The Alcestiad

Author : Thornton Wilder
Publisher : HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Alcestiad written by Thornton Wilder and published by HarperCollins Publishers. This book was released on 1977 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Alcestiad by Thornton Wilder tells the story of Admetus, King of Thessaly (rich in horses), his wife Alcestis, and the triumphs and tragedies they endure as favorites of the god Apollo. Every major event in their marriage is a direct result of the interference of Apollo, though this is not made clear in The Alcestiad. Rather, the extent of Apollo’s involvement is made clear in the accompanying satyr play, The Drunken Sisters. --readingandruminations.wordpress.com.