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Author : Euripides
Publisher : Greek Tragedy in New Translati
Page : 116 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 1991
Category : Drama
ISBN : 0195068742
The translators of this new edition have focused their attention on tonal texture, resulting in a subtle and highly evocative translation of the unjustifiable sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter, Poyxena, and the consequent destruction of Hecuba's character.
Author : Marina Carr
Publisher : Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
Page : 41 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2017-03-16
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 9780822235194
Troy has fallen. It’s the end of war and the beginning of something else. Something worse. As the cries die down after the final battle, there are reckonings to be made. Humiliated by her defeat and imprisoned by the charismatic victor Agamemnon, the great queen Hecuba must wash the blood of her buried sons from her hands and lead her daughters forward into a world they no longer recognize. Agamemnon has slaughtered his own daughter to win this war. But now another sacrifice is demanded…In a world where human instinct has been ravaged by violence, is everything as it seems in the hearts of the winners and those they have defeated?
Author : Helene P. Foley
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 192 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2014-12-18
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781472569097
Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular throughout Antiquity. The play also became part of the so-called 'Byzantine triad' of three plays of Euripides (along with Phoenician Women and Orestes) selected for study in school curricula, above all for the brilliance of its rhetorical speeches and quotable traditional wisdom. Translations into Latin and vernacular languages, as well as stage performances emerged early in the sixteenth century. The Renaissance admired the play for its representation of the extraordinary suffering and misfortunes of its newly-enslaved heroine, the former queen of Troy Hecuba, for the courageous sacrificial death of her daughter Polyxena, and for the beleaguered queen's surprisingly successful revenge against the unscrupulous killer of her son Polydorus. Later periods, however, developed reservations about the play's revenge plot and its unity. Recent scholarship has favorably reassessed the play in its original cultural and political context and the past thirty years have produced a number of exciting staged productions. Hecuba has emerged as a profound exploration of the difficulties of establishing justice and a stable morality in post-war situations. This book investigates the play's changing critical and theatrical reception from Antiquity to the present, its mythical and political background, its dramatic and thematic unity, and the role of its choruses.
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 299 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9780521191258
A new interpretation of a Greek tragedy on the fall of Troy: do violence, war and slavery make people less human?
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2012-03-15
Category : Drama
ISBN : 9781603848251
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 : Eva M. Dadlez
Publisher : Penn State Press
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 43,9 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Psychology
ISBN : 9780271039817
Fiction transports us. We inhabit new worlds in our imagination, adopt perspectives not our own, and even respond emotionally to persons and events that we know are not real. The very nature of our emotional engagement with fiction, says E. M. Dadlez, attests to the possibility of its moral significance, just as the nature of our imaginative engagement makes us collaborators in the creation of the worlds we imagine. This book engages contemporary debate over the seeming irrationality or inauthenticity of our emotional response to fiction, examining the many positions taken in this debate and arguing that we can understand the relation between cognition and emotion without devaluing our emotional responses to fiction. It takes Hamlet's famous query as the first step in an analytic philosophical inquiry and, by considering some of the answers that derive from that question, arrives at a set of necessary conditions for an emotional response to fiction. What Hamlet's player feels for Hecuba, proposes Dadlez, is no more illusory than what we feel for Hamlet; that the actor weeps for Hecuba reflects both our capacity to envision and understand a seemingly limitless variety of human situations&—to empathize with others&—and the capacity of fiction to facilitate such understanding. What's Hecuba to Him? is an enticingly written work that opens an entire philosophical arena to literary scholars and illuminates the significance that literature has for our moral life.
Author : W. S. Hadley
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 145 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2011-11-18
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107601406
Part of the Pitt Press Series, this 1894 book provides the complete text of Hecuba in the original Ancient Greek.
Author : Euripides
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1955
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BL:A0026438584
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1862
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:590345630
Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 638 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 1887
Category : Electronic
ISBN : BSB:BSB11455946
Author : Euripides
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 108 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 1875
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OXFORD:600085393
Author : Micheál Mac Liammóir
Publisher : London, Methuen
Page : 420 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Actors
ISBN : UCAL:$B161720
Author : Tanya Pollard
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2017-09-08
Category : Literary Collections
ISBN : 9780192511607
Greek Tragic Women on Shakespearean Stages argues that ancient Greek plays exerted a powerful and uncharted influence on early modern England's dramatic landscape. Drawing on original research to challenge longstanding assumptions about Greek texts' invisibility, the book shows not only that the plays were more prominent than we have believed, but that early modern readers and audiences responded powerfully to specific plays and themes. The Greek plays most popular in the period were not male-centered dramas such as Sophocles' Oedipus, but tragedies by Euripides that focused on raging bereaved mothers and sacrificial virgin daughters, especially Hecuba and Iphigenia. Because tragedy was firmly linked with its Greek origin in the period's writings, these iconic female figures acquired a privileged status as synecdoches for the tragic theater and its ability to conjure sympathetic emotions in audiences. When Hamlet reflects on the moving power of tragic performance, he turns to the most prominent of these figures: 'What's Hecuba to him, or he to Hecuba/ That he should weep for her?' Through readings of plays by Shakespeare and his contemporary dramatists, this book argues that newly visible Greek plays, identified with the origins of theatrical performance and represented by passionate female figures, challenged early modern writers to reimagine the affective possibilities of tragedy, comedy, and the emerging genre of tragicomedy.
Author : Mairéad McAuley
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 462 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2016
Category : History
ISBN : 9780199659364
Year of publication in resource is 2016, year publication received is 2015.
