Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human
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.
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Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human
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.
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Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human

Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human

by Mark Ringer
Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human

Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human

by Mark Ringer

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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.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9781498518444
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date: 07/29/2016
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
Pages: 392
File size: 2 MB

About the Author

Mark Ringer is professor of theatre at Marymount Manhattan College.
Mark Ringer is professor of theater at Marymount Manhattan College, USA.

Table of Contents

PrefaceChapter One: Introduction: Euripides and the Boundaries of the HumanChapter Two: RhesusChapter Three: AlcestisChapter Four: MedeaChapter Five: The Children of HeraclesChapter Six: HippolytusChapter Seven: AndromacheChapter Eight: HecubaChapter Nine: The Suppliant WomenChapter Ten: ElectraChapter Eleven: Trojan WomenChapter Twelve: HeraclesChapter Thirteen: Iphigenia among the TauriansChapter Fourteen: IonChapter Fifteen: HelenChapter Sixteen: The Phoenician WomenChapter Seventeen: OrestesChapter Eighteen: The CyclopsChapter Nineteen: Iphigenia at AulisChapter Twenty: The BacchaeAfterword
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