Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah
Iphigenia, Phaedra, Athaliah

Author: Jean Racine

Publisher: Penguin UK

Published: 2004-12-02

Total Pages: 422

ISBN-13: 014190934X

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Strongly influenced by Classical drama, Jean Racine (1639-99) broke away from the grandiose theatricality of baroque drama to create works of intense psychological realism, with characters manipulated by cruel and vengeful gods. Iphigenia depicts a princess's absolute submission to her father's will, despite his determination to sacrifice her to gain divine favour before going to war. Described by Voltaire as 'the masterpiece of the human mind', Phaedra shows a woman's struggle to overcome her overwhelming passion for her stepson - an obsession that brings destruction to a noble family. And Athaliah portrays a ruthless pagan queen, who defies Jehovah in her desperate attempt to keep the throne of Jerusalem from its legitimate heir.

Penguin Classics
Penguin Classics

Author: Anonymous

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 2012-01-31

Total Pages: 941

ISBN-13: 1101578149

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A Complete Annotated Listing More than 1,500 titles in print Authoritative introductions and notes by leading academics and contemporary authors Up-to-date translations from award-winning translators Readers guides and other resources available online Penguin Classics on air online radio programs

Iphigenia in Forest Hills
Iphigenia in Forest Hills

Author: Janet Malcolm

Publisher: Yale University Press

Published: 2011-03-29

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 0300168837

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Malcolm's riveting new book tells the story of a murder trial in the insular Bukharan-Jewish community of Forest Hills, Queens, that captured national attention.

The Complete Euripides
The Complete Euripides

Author: Euripides

Publisher: Oxford University Press

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 379

ISBN-13: 0195373405

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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.

Tragedy and Philosophy
Tragedy and Philosophy

Author: Walter Kaufmann

Publisher: Princeton University Press

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 414

ISBN-13: 9780691020051

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A critical re-examination of the views of Plato, Aristotle, Hegel and Nietzsche on tragedy. Ancient Greek tragedy is revealed as surprisingly modern and experimental, while such concepts as mimesis, catharsis, hubris and the tragic collision are discussed from different perspectives.

Killer Books
Killer Books

Author: Aníbal González

Publisher: University of Texas Press

Published: 2010-07-05

Total Pages: 243

ISBN-13: 0292788908

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Writing and violence have been inextricably linked in Spanish America from the Conquest onward. Spanish authorities used written edicts, laws, permits, regulations, logbooks, and account books to control indigenous peoples whose cultures were predominantly oral, giving rise to a mingled awe and mistrust of the power of the written word that persists in Spanish American culture to the present day. In this masterful study, Aníbal González traces and describes how Spanish American writers have reflected ethically in their works about writing's relation to violence and about their own relation to writing. Using an approach that owes much to the recent "turn to ethics" in deconstruction and to the works of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas, he examines selected short stories and novels by major Spanish American authors from the late nineteenth through the twentieth centuries: Manuel Gutiérrez Nájera, Manuel Zeno Gandía, Teresa de la Parra, Jorge Luis Borges, Alejo Carpentier, Gabriel García Márquez, and Julio Cortázar. He shows how these authors frequently display an attitude he calls "graphophobia," an intense awareness of the potential dangers of the written word.

The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy
The Cambridge Introduction to Tragedy

Author: Jennifer Wallace

Publisher: Cambridge University Press

Published: 2007-05-10

Total Pages: 260

ISBN-13: 9780521671491

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An introductory study into tragedy in drama and literature, and in the real world.

Ancient Greeks on the Human Condition
Ancient Greeks on the Human Condition

Author: Matthew Sims

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-08-05

Total Pages: 207

ISBN-13: 1476675783

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This book examines the writings of four ancient Greeks-Homer, Thucydides, Euripides, and Aristophanes. Each of these four individuals represents a different approach toward the human condition, ranging from the heroic and tragic to the comic and absurd. This book focuses on how the human condition can best be understood within the framework of these four perspectives by examining the major contributions of these Greek writers, whether in the form of epic (Homer's Iliad), history (Thucydides' History of the Peloponnesian War), or drama (the plays of Euripides and Aristophanes). These various perceptions of Greek thought illuminate our understanding of what it means to be fully human. By focusing on the concepts of the heroic, tragic, comic, and absurd, we can see how these ancient Greek authors still provide key insights for us today as they clarify those timeless features that define the human condition.

Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus
Iphigenia among the Taurians, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Rhesus

Author: Euripides

Publisher: Clarendon Press

Published: 1999-01-28

Total Pages: 285

ISBN-13: 0191584452

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This book is the second of three volumes of a new prose translation, with introduction and notes, of Euripides' most popular plays. The first three tragedies translated in this volume illustrate Euripides' extraordinary dramatic range. Iphigenia among the Taurians, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world, is much more than an exciting story of escape. It is remarkable for its sensitive delineation of character as it weighs Greek against barbarian civilization. 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, so vastly different as to highlight the playwright's Protean invention, centres on the ultimate dysfunctional family, that of Agamemnon, as natural emotion is tested in the tragic crucible of the Greek expedition against Troy. Rhesus, probably the work of another playwright, deals with a grisly event in the Trojan War. Like Iphigenia at Aulis, its `subject is war and the pity of war', but it is also an exciting, action-packed theatrical Iliad in miniature.

A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater
A Short Introduction to the Ancient Greek Theater

Author: Graham Ley

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2006

Total Pages: 141

ISBN-13: 0226477614

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Reexamining the surviving plays of Aeschylus, Sophocles, Euripides, and Aristophanes, the author discusses acting technique, scenery, the power and range of the chorus, the use of theatrical space, and parody in their plays. This edition includes notes on ancient mime and puppetry and how to read Greek playtexts as scripts.