Euripides: Children of Heracles
«Yoon opens up this play’s neglected riches in crisp, lucid, and precise prose.»
Greece & Rome
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. Les mer
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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.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Bloomsbury Academic
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 176
- ISBN
- 9781350193871
- Utgivelsesår
- 2021
- Format
- 22 x 14 cm
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«Yoon opens up this play’s neglected riches in crisp, lucid, and precise prose.»
Greece & Rome
«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.»
The Classical Review