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Bacchae and Other Plays

Author : Euripides,
Publisher : Oxford Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780199540525
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Bacchae and Other Plays written by Euripides, and published by Oxford Paperbacks. This book was released on 2008-06-12 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The four plays newly translated in this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape and contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with the appalling consequences of resistance to Dionysus, god of wine and unfettered emotion. This tragedy, which above all others speaks to our post-Freudian era, is one of Euripides' two last surviving plays. The second, Iphigenia at Aulis, centres on the ultimate dysfunctional family as natural emotion is tested in the tragic crucible of the Greek expedition against Troy. Lastly, Rhesus, probably the work of another playwright, is a thrilling, action-packed Iliad in miniature, dealing with a grisly event in the Trojan War.

Euripides' Bacchae

Author : Hans Oranje
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 900432805X
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Euripides' Bacchae written by Hans Oranje and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2018-07-17 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The purpose of this book is to investigate what it was Euripides intended to convey to the theatre-going public of his day when he wrote his most exciting and most gruesome play, the Bacchae. The meanings which are to be attached to the action of a play are woven by an audience, both during and after the performance, into a single dramatic experience, labelled in this book as 'audience response'. After some introductory chapters dealing with the history of the interpretation of the Bacchae and with the theory of audience response, the main part of the book is devoted to a detailed analysis of the action of the play (chapters 4 and 5), and to a study of Dionysus in his various apects in Athenian life and in his appearances in earlier literature and on the tragic stage. The discussion of the choruses concentrates on the choruses' repeated utterances about cleverness and wisdom, which form the core of the Dionysian propaganda of the play. The most immediate results of this new interpretation of the Bacchae are that the widely-accepted view of Pentheus as a dark puritan, a man possessed by the Dionysian qualities of his divine opponent, proves to be untenable, and that that which in the past has been rightly called the overriding theme of the play - the god's epiphany - also contains the poet's most serious and ironical discussion of divinity and of man's treatment of it. The problems of the Greek text are given full discussion, mainly in the nots and appendices. In many cases new solutions are proposed; some new problems are however added.

The Bacchae of Euripides

Author : Euripides
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
ISBN 13 : 9780803251946
Total Pages : 168 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (519 download)

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Download or read book The Bacchae of Euripides written by Euripides and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1968-01-01 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new translation of The Bacchae—that strange blend of Aeschylean grandeur and Euripidean finesse—is an attempt to reproduce for the American stage the play as it most probably was when new and unmutilated in 406 B.C. The achievement of this aim involves a restoration of the "great lacuna" at the climax and the discovery of several primary stage effects very likely intended by Euripides. These effects and controversial questions of the composition and stylistics are discussed in the notes and the accompanying essay.

The Complete Euripides

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0195373405
Total Pages : 379 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (953 download)

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Download or read book The Complete Euripides written by Euripides and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2009 with total page 379 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Collected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal, a powerful examination of the horror and beauty of Dionysiac ecstasy; Herakles, translated by Tom Sleigh and Christian Wolff, a violent dramatization of the madness and exile of one of the most celebrated mythical figures; and The Phoenician Women, translated by Peter Burian and Brian Swamm, a disturbing interpretation of the fate of the House of Laios following the tragic fall of Oedipus. These three tragedies were originally available as single volumes. This volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.

Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae

Author : Charles Segal
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069122398X
Total Pages : 438 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (912 download)

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Download or read book Dionysiac Poetics and Euripides' Bacchae written by Charles Segal and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2021-01-12 with total page 438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his play Bacchae, Euripides chooses as his central figure the god who crosses the boundaries among god, man, and beast, between reality and imagination, and between art and madness. In so doing, he explores what in tragedy is able to reach beyond the social, ritual, and historical context from which tragedy itself rises. Charles Segal's reading of Euripides' Bacchae builds gradually from concrete details of cult, setting, and imagery to the work's implications for the nature of myth, language, and theater. This volume presents the argument that the Dionysiac poetics of the play characterize a world view and an art form that can admit logical contradictions and hold them in suspension.

Bacchae of Euripides

Author : G. S. Kirk
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780521226752
Total Pages : 158 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (267 download)

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Download or read book Bacchae of Euripides written by G. S. Kirk and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 1979-11-30 with total page 158 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Bacchae is the last and greatest of Euripides' plays. Its theme of the cost of resisting the gods who reside in human nature itself is still of immediate interest to audiences and readers and has inspired modern interpretations. Professor Kirk has made a translation which is both accurate and readable. This he supports with an analytic commentary and a substantial introductory essay which provide the Greek-less reader with essential background information and offer interpretation of a kind usually found only in Greek editions. This is a translation for students of Greek tragedy, particularly in courses on classics in translations or classical civilisation. It will also be useful for students of drama and of English and other literatures.

The Bacchae of Euripides

Author : Wole Soyinka
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN 13 : 9780393325836
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (258 download)

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Download or read book The Bacchae of Euripides written by Wole Soyinka and published by W. W. Norton & Company. This book was released on 1974 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A wholly fresh interpretation of the timeless play by a Nobel Prize-winning author.

Bacchae of Euripides

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book Bacchae of Euripides written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

A Feminist Theory of Refusal

Author : Bonnie Honig
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 067424849X
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book A Feminist Theory of Refusal written by Bonnie Honig and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2021-05-11 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An acclaimed political theorist offers a fresh, interdisciplinary analysis of the politics of refusal, highlighting the promise of a feminist politics that does not simply withdraw from the status quo but also transforms it. The Bacchae, Euripides’s fifth-century tragedy, famously depicts the wine god Dionysus and the women who follow him as indolent, drunken, mad. But Bonnie Honig sees the women differently. They reject work, not out of laziness, but because they have had enough of women’s routine obedience. Later they escape prison, leave the city of Thebes, explore alternative lifestyles, kill the king, and then return to claim the city. Their “arc of refusal,” Honig argues, can inspire a new feminist politics of refusal. Refusal, the withdrawal from unjust political and economic systems, is a key theme in political philosophy. Its best-known literary avatar is Herman Melville’s Bartleby, whose response to every request is, “I prefer not to.” A feminist politics of refusal, by contrast, cannot simply decline to participate in the machinations of power. Honig argues that a feminist refusal aims at transformation and, ultimately, self-governance. Withdrawal is a first step, not the end game. Rethinking the concepts of refusal in the work of Giorgio Agamben, Adriana Cavarero, and Saidiya Hartman, Honig places collective efforts toward self-governance at refusal’s core and, in doing so, invigorates discourse on civil and uncivil disobedience. She seeks new protagonists in film, art, and in historical and fictional figures including Sophocles’s Antigone, Ovid’s Procne, Charlie Chaplin’s Tramp, Leonardo da Vinci’s Madonna, and Muhammad Ali. Rather than decline the corruptions of politics, these agents of refusal join the women of Thebes first in saying no and then in risking to undertake transformative action.

The Bacchae of Euripides

Author : C. K. Williams
Publisher : Farrar, Straus and Giroux
ISBN 13 : 1466880562
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (668 download)

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Download or read book The Bacchae of Euripides written by C. K. Williams and published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From the renowned contemporary American poet C. K. Williams comes this fluent and accessible version of The Bacchae, the great tragedy by Euripides. This book includes an introduction by Martha Nussbaum.

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:

Bacchae

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 160384449X
Total Pages : 130 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (38 download)

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Download or read book Bacchae written by Euripides and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1998-09-15 with total page 130 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: [Woodruff's translation] is clear, fluent, and vigorous, well thought out, readable and forceful. The rhythms are right, ever-present but not too insistent or obvious. It can be spoken instead of read and so is viable as an acting version; and it keeps the lines of the plot well focused. The Introduction offers a good survey of critical approaches. The notes at the foot of the page are suitably brief and nonintrusive and give basic information for the non-specialist. --Charles Segal, Harvard University

The Bacchae of Euripides

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Bacchae of Euripides written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1879 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Looking at Bacchae

Author : David Stuttard
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1474221491
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (742 download)

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Download or read book Looking at Bacchae written by David Stuttard and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2016-02-25 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bacchae is one of the most troubling yet intriguing of Greek tragedies. Written during Euripides' self-imposed exile in Macedonia, it tells of the brutal murder and dismemberment of Pentheus by his mother and aunts who, driven temporarily insane, have joined the Bacchae (devotees of the god Dionysus, or Bacchus). The startling plot, driven by Dionysus' desire to punish his family for refusing to accept his divinity, and culminating in the excruciating pathos of a mother's realization that she has killed her son, has held audiences transfixed since its original performance (when it won first prize). It is one of the most performed and studied plays in the Greek tragic corpus, with a strong history of reception down to the present day. This collection of essays by eminent academics gathered from across the globe explores the themes, staging and reception of the play, with essays on the characters Dionysus and Pentheus, the role of the chorus of Bacchae, key themes such as revenge, women and religion, and the historical and literary contexts of the play. The essays are accompanied by David Stuttard's English translation which is performer-friendly, accessible and closely accurate to the original.

Euripides: Bacchae

Author : William Allan
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108956432
Total Pages : 366 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Euripides: Bacchae written by William Allan and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2024-02-01 with total page 366 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Euripides' Bacchae is one of the most widely read and performed Greek tragedies. A story of implacable divine vengeance, it skilfully transforms earlier currents of literature and myth, and its formative influence on modern ideas of Greek tragedy and religion is unparalleled. This up-to-date edition offers a detailed literary and cultural analysis. The wide-ranging Introduction discusses such issues as the psychological and anthropological aspects of Dionysiac ritual, the god's ability to blur gender boundaries, his particular connection to dramatic role-playing, and the interaction of belief and practice in Greek religion. The Commentary's notes on language and style are intended to make the play fully accessible to students of Greek at all levels, while the edition as a whole is designed for anyone with an interest in Greek tragedy or cultural history.

The Bacchae

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Michael Gould
ISBN 13 : 9780954645731
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (457 download)

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Download or read book The Bacchae written by Euripides and published by Michael Gould. This book was released on 2006 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Bacchae and Other Plays

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Penguin UK
ISBN 13 : 0141964111
Total Pages : 446 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (419 download)

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Download or read book The Bacchae and Other Plays written by Euripides and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2006-01-26 with total page 446 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Through their sheer range, daring innovation, flawed but eloquent characters and intriguing plots, the plays of Euripides have shocked and stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. Phoenician Women portrays the rival sons of King Oedipus and their mother's doomed attempts at reconciliation, while Orestes shows a son ravaged with guilt after the vengeful murder of his mother. In the Bacchae, a king mistreats a newcomer to his land, little knowing that he is the god Dionysus disguised as a mortal, while in Iphigenia at Aulis, the Greek leaders take the horrific decision to sacrifice a princess to gain favour from the gods in their mission to Troy. Finally, the Rhesus depicts a world of espionage between the warring Greek and Trojan camps.