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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.

The Alcestis of Euripides

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 522 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (2 download)

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Download or read book The Alcestis of Euripides written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1837 with total page 522 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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.

The Alcestis of Euripides

Author : F. A. Paley
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN 13 : 3385217261
Total Pages : 74 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (852 download)

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Download or read book The Alcestis of Euripides written by F. A. Paley and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2023-10-20 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reprint of the original, first published in 1875.

The Alcestis of Euripides, with Notes, for the Use of Colleges ...

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 154 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Alcestis of Euripides, with Notes, for the Use of Colleges ... written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1854 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Alcestis of Euripides ... With Notes ... by J. Milner. Second Edition

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 144 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (26 download)

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Download or read book The Alcestis of Euripides ... With Notes ... by J. Milner. Second Edition written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1860 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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 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.

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.

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.

The Alcestis of Euripides

Author : Euripides
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 284 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Alcestis of Euripides written by Euripides and published by . This book was released on 1898 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

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:

Euripides and the Instruction of the Athenians

Author : Justina Gregory
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
ISBN 13 : 0472027700
Total Pages : 219 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 219 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 Ship's Cat

Author : Jock Brandis
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 0595129978
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (951 download)

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Download or read book The Ship's Cat written by Jock Brandis and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2000-09 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 1969. The Nigerian civil war has attracted a strange mix of idealists and mercenaries. We meet them in scenes of nightly chaos. Large aircraft come and go on this temporary airstrip in the bush. Overhead, Nigerian bombers wait for easy targets. Food and medical supplies come in, some dying babies leave. John A. Moose, a taciturn Canadian Indian working as a mechanic, and his friend Will van der Molen, watch the high hopes for a truly independent Black African nation collapse into a grim struggle for survival. And then a small problem appears in the form of a little boy, smuggled onto their airplane by a desperate mother. Unwilling to give his name he becomes Tim, John A.’s `pet African’. With the inevitable defeat, and retreat to a nearby Portuguese prison colony, Tim leaves his homeland and grows up as John A.’s son in the Canadian North. Seventeen years later, the strangest of circumstances pulls an unwilling John A. back to Nigeria on a seemingly impossible task. His adopted son insists on going along. A strange re-union of war veterans follows. Only Tim can find a way to save his troubled saviors.

Reclaiming Greek Drama for Diverse Audiences

Author : Melinda Powers
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0429893752
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (298 download)

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Download or read book Reclaiming Greek Drama for Diverse Audiences written by Melinda Powers and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2020-08-12 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reclaiming Greek Drama for Diverse Audiences features the work of Native-American, African-American, Asian-American, Latinx, and LGBTQ theatre artists who engage with social justice issues in seven adaptations of Sophocles’ Antigone, Euripides’ Trojan Women, Hippolytus, Bacchae, Alcestis, and Aristophanes’ Frogs, as well as a work inspired by the myth of the Fates. Performed between 1989 and 2017 in small theatres across the US, these contemporary works raise awareness about the trafficking of Native-American women, marriage equality, gender justice, women’s empowerment, the social stigma surrounding HIV, immigration policy, and the plight of undocumented workers. The accompanying interviews provide a fascinating insight into the plays, the artists’ inspiration for them, and the importance of studying classics in the college classroom. Readers will benefit from an introduction that discusses practical ways to teach the adaptations, ideas for assignments, and the contextualization of the works within the history of classical reception. Serving as a key resource on incorporating diversity into the teaching of canonical texts for Classics, English, Drama and Theatre Studies students, this anthology is the first to present the work of a range of contemporary theatre artists who utilize ancient Greek source material to explore social, political, and economic issues affecting a variety of underrepresented communities in the US.

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.

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....