Andromache Hecuba Trojan Women

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781603848251

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Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women by Euripides Pdf

Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and political context in which Euripides wrote, and provides analysis of the themes, structure, and characters of the plays included. Her notes offer expert guidance to readers encountering these works for the first time.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 238 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0198150938

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Hecuba by Euripides Pdf

This is the final in a series of three volumes of a new prose translation of Euripides' most popular plays. In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battle-ground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in the Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. And in her name play Andromache, the slave-concubine of her husband's killer, endures her existence in the victor's country with a Stoic nobility. Of their time yet timeless, these plays insist on the victory of the female spirit amid the horrors visited on them by the gods and men during war.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : DigiCat
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-09-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : EAN:8596547356806

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The Trojan women of Euripides by Euripides Pdf

DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "The Trojan women of Euripides" by Euripides. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Faber & Faber
Page : 83 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-18
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780571301010

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Hecuba by Euripides Pdf

Children, lead this old woman outside. A slave like the rest of you, She once was your queen. Troy has fallen to the Greeks, and Hecuba, its beloved queen, is widowed and enslaved. She mourns her great city and the death of her husband, but when fresh horrors emerge, her grief turns to rage and a lust for revenge. A savage indictment of the devastation of war, Hecuba is brought to life in this thrillingly visceral new version. Hecuba premièred at the Donmar Warehouse, London in September 2004.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 130 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2005-05-01
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781585104352

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The Trojan Women by Euripides Pdf

This is an English translation of Euripides' tragedy The Trojan Women about the consequences of war; the victors and the fate of those defeated in war. Focus Classical Library provides close translations with notes and essays to provide access to understanding Greek culture.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Broadview Press
Page : 150 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 2021-04-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781770488106

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Trojan Women by Euripides Pdf

Trojan Women tells the story of the survivors of the Trojan War, the women and children taken into slavery by the victorious Greek army. Through the tragedy’s central character, the matriarch Hecuba, this late play (415 BCE) demonstrates Euripides’ commitment to speaking on behalf of the less powerful and offers a scathing critique of Athenian behavior as the city fought its own disastrous war with its southern neighbor, Sparta. Trojan Women features well-known characters from Greek mythology, including the prophetess Cassandra, the gods Athena and Poseidon, and most notably, the infamous Helen, the cause of the war, who must defend herself to the husband she abandoned. This new translation features a text committed to accuracy and clarity, one developed in collaboration with actors for clear reading and performance. Appendices provide other important literary treatment of the women in the play, from Homer to Shakespeare.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Wentworth Press
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,9 Mb
Release : 2019-03-21
Category : History
ISBN : 1010586106

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The Trojan Women Of Euripides by Euripides Pdf

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Author : Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Publisher : Cornell University Press
Page : 132 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0801494311

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Trojan Women by Lucius Annaeus Seneca Pdf

The play explores the folly of war, focussing on the trials of the royal family of the fallen city of Troy (Hecuba, Andromache and their children) as they mourn their past and current sufferings, and the continued assault of the Greeks on the survivors as they look to sacrifice two of the royal progeny, Polyxena and Astyanax.

Author : Peter Burian,Alan Shapiro
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 400 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-07-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0199745412

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The Complete Euripides by Peter Burian,Alan Shapiro Pdf

Based on the conviction that only translators who write poetry themselves can best re-create the celebrated and timeless tragedies of Aeschylus, Sophocles, and Euripides, the Greek Tragedy in New Translations series offers new translations that go beyond the literal meaning of the Greek in order to evoke the poetry of the originals. The tragedies collected here were originally available as single volumes. This new collection retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions, with Greek line numbers and a single combined glossary added for easy reference. This volume collects Euripides' Andromache, a play that challenges the concept of tragic character and transforms expectations of tragic structure; Hecuba, a powerful story of the unjustifiable sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter and the consequent destruction of Hecuba's character; Trojan Women, a particularly intense account of human suffering and uncertainty; and Rhesos, the story of a futile quest for knowledge.

Author : Euripides,
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 92 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-05-30
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9781350358331

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The Women of Troy by Euripides, Pdf

There's no decent way to say an indecent thing An industrial port of a war-torn city. Women survivors wait to be shipped abroad. Officials come and go. A grandmother, once queen, watches as her remaining family are taken from her one by one. The city burns around them. First performed in 415BC, the play focuses on the human cost of war and the impact of loss. This new Student Edition of The Women of Troy includes a commentary and notes by Emma Cole, which looks at the Trojan War as represented in Greek literature and myth; the context in which Euripides was writing and within which the play was first performed; how it would have been originally staged and dramaturgical challenges met; as well as recent performance history of the play, including Katie Mitchell's iconic 2007 production at the National Theatre. Euripides' great anti-war play is published here in Don Taylor's classic translation.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : OUP Oxford
Page : 778 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2001-09-20
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780191606182

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The Trojan Women and Other Plays by Euripides Pdf

Hecuba The Trojan Women Andromache In the three great war plays contained in this volume Euripides subjects the sufferings of Troy's survivors to a harrowing examination. The horrific brutality which both women and children undergo evokes a response of unparalleled intensity in the playwright whom Aristotle called the most tragic of the poets. Yet the new battleground of the aftermath of war is one in which the women of Troy evince an overwhelming greatness of spirit. We weep for the aged Hecuba in her name play and in The Trojan Women, yet we respond with an at times appalled admiration to her resilience amid unrelieved suffering. Andromache, the slave-concubine of her husband's killer, endures her existence in the victor's country with a Stoic nobility. Of their time yet timeless, these plays insist on the victory of the female spirit amid the horrors visited on them by the gods and men during war.

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 106 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 1915
Category : Trojan War
ISBN : UOM:39015013449734

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The Trojan Women of Euripides by Euripides Pdf

Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 74 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1951
Category : Andromache (Legendary character)
ISBN : IOWA:31858031442100

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The Trojan Women by Euripides Pdf

Author : Euripides,Shirley Ann Barlow
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : History
ISBN : 0856682292

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Trojan Women by Euripides,Shirley Ann Barlow Pdf

Text with facing translation, commentary and notes.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Drama
ISBN : 1929468059

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The Trojan Women by Anonim Pdf