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Euripides: Children of Heracles: Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy

Autor Florence Yoon
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 8 ian 2020
This book is an accessible guide through the many twists and turns of Euripides' Children of Heracles, providing several frameworks through which to understand and appreciate the play. Children of Heracles follows the fortunes of Heracles' family after his death. Euripides confronts characters and audience alike with an extraordinary series of plot twists and ethical challenges as the persecuted family of refugees struggles to find asylum in Athens before taking revenge on its enemy Eurystheus. It is a fast-paced story that explores the nature of power and its abuse, focusing on the appropriate treatment and behaviour of the powerless and the obligations and limitations of asylum. The audience must continually re-evaluate the play's moral dimensions as the characters respond to complications that range from the fantastic to the frighteningly realistic.Yoon situates Children of Heracles in its literary context, showing how Euripides constructs a unique kind of tragic plot from a wide range of conventions. It also explores the centrality of the dead Heracles and the leading role given to the socially powerless and the dramatically marginal. Finally, it discusses the historical contexts of the play's original performance and its political resonance both then and now.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350076754
ISBN-10: 1350076759
Pagini: 176
Ilustrații: 7 bw illus
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 mm
Greutate: 0.35 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Seria Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy

Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Looks through the lenses of dramatic convention and innovation, political history, social history, ethics and modern comparison.

Notă biografică

Florence Yoon is Assistant Professor of Greek Language and Literature at the University of British Columbia, Canada. She is the author of The Use of Anonymous Characters in Greek Tragedy (2012).

Cuprins

List of figuresPrefaceChapter 1: Action and expectationChapter 2: Summing the partsChapter 3: Heracles and other imagined figuresChapter 4: The power of the weakChapter 5: Then and nowAppendix: FragmentsSelected chronologyGuide to Further ReadingNotesBibliographyIndex

Recenzii

Yoon opens up this play's neglected riches in crisp, lucid, and precise prose.
With [an] earnest and well-executed plea for readers and theatre-goers to appreciate this relatively neglected play for what it has to offer rather than succumb to the weight of a long, but receding, history of negative critical reception, Yoon fulfils the aims of a Bloomsbury Companion admirably.