EURIPIDES: THE COMPLETE PLAYS (Nook Authoritative Edition) The Complete Works of Euripides, Incl. Electra, Hecuba, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia, Medea, Orestes, Helen, Suppliants, Bacchae, Heracles (NOOKBook)

EURIPIDES: THE COMPLETE PLAYS (Nook Authoritative Edition) The Complete Works of Euripides, Incl. Electra, Hecuba, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia, Medea, Orestes, Helen, Suppliants, Bacchae, Heracles (NOOKBook)

EURIPIDES: THE COMPLETE PLAYS (Nook Authoritative Edition) The Complete Works of Euripides, Incl. Electra, Hecuba, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia, Medea, Orestes, Helen, Suppliants, Bacchae, Heracles (NOOKBook)

EURIPIDES: THE COMPLETE PLAYS (Nook Authoritative Edition) The Complete Works of Euripides, Incl. Electra, Hecuba, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia, Medea, Orestes, Helen, Suppliants, Bacchae, Heracles (NOOKBook)

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EURIPIDES: THE COMPLETE PLAYS
(Nook Authoritative Edition)

The Complete Works of Euripides

Including Electra, Hecuba, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia, Medea, Orestes, Helen, Suppliants, Bacchae, Heracles and More

(NOOKBook)


TABLE OF CONTENTS

ALCESTIS
ANDROMACHE
THE BACCHANTES
THE CYCLOPS
ELECTRA
HECUBA
HELEN
THE HERACLEIDAE
HERACLES
HIPPOLYTUS
ION
IPHIGENIA AT AULIS
IPHIGENIA IN TAURIS
MEDEA
ORESTES
THE PHOENISSAE
RHESUS
THE SUPPLIANTS
THE TROJAN WOMEN

Product Details

BN ID: 2940014352741
Publisher: Euripides Complete Works (Greek Tragedy Classics)
Publication date: 12/20/2012
Series: Euripides Greek Drama Electra, Hecuba, The Trojan Women, Iphigenia, Medea, Orestes, Helen, Suppliants, Bacchae, Heracles
Sold by: Barnes & Noble
Format: eBook
File size: 564 KB

About the Author

Euripides (Ancient Greek: Εὐριπίδης) (ca. 480 – 406 BC) was one of the three great tragedians of classical Athens, the other two being Aeschylus and Sophocles. More of his plays have survived intact than those of Aeschylus and Sophocles together, partly due to mere chance and partly because his popularity grew as theirs declined — he became, in the Hellenistic Age, a cornerstone of ancient literary education, along with Homer, Demosthenes and Menander.

Euripides is identified with theatrical innovations that have profoundly influenced drama down to modern times, especially in the representation of traditional, mythical heroes as ordinary people in extraordinary circumstances. This new approach led him to pioneer developments that later writers adapted to comedy, some of which are characteristic of romance. Yet he also became "the most tragic of poets", focusing on the inner lives and motives of his characters in a way previously unknown. He was "the creator of...that cage which is the theatre of Shakespeare's Othello, Racine's Phèdre, of Ibsen and Strindberg," in which "...imprisoned men and women destroy each other by the intensity of their loves and hates", and yet he was also the literary ancestor of comic dramatists as diverse as Menander and George Bernard Shaw.

He was also unique among the writers of ancient Athens for the sympathy he demonstrated towards all victims of society, including women. His conservative male audiences were frequently shocked by the 'heresies' he put into the mouths of characters.
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