The Art of Euripides

Dramatic Technique and Social Context
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-521-76839-9
Verlag: Cambridge University Press

Buch, Englisch, 376 Seiten, Format (B × H): 157 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 694 g

In this book Professor Mastronarde draws on the seventeen surviving tragedies of Euripides, as well as the fragmentary remains of his lost plays, to explore key topics in the interpretation of the plays. It investigates their relation to the Greek poetic tradition and to the social and political structures of their original setting, aiming both to be attentive to the great variety of the corpus and to identify commonalities across it. In examining such topics as genre, structural strategies, the chorus, the gods, rhetoric, and the portrayal of women and men, this study highlights the ways in which audience responses are manipulated through the use of plot structures and the multiplicity of viewpoints expressed. It argues that the dramas of Euripides, through their dramatic technique, pose a strong challenge to simple formulations of norms, to the reading of consistent human character, and to the quest for certainty and closure.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Mastronarde, Donald J.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Alte Geschichte & Archäologie Geschichte der klassischen Antike
• Geisteswissenschaften Theater- und Filmwissenschaft | Andere Darstellende Künste Theaterwissenschaft
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Literaturgeschichte und Literaturkritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface; 1. Approaching Euripides; 2. Problems of genre; 3. Dramatic structures: variety and unity; 4. The chorus; 5. The gods; 6. Rhetoric and character; 7. Women; 8. Euripidean males and the limits of autonomy; Conclusion.

Über Autor(innen)

Mastronarde, Donald J.
Donald J. Mastronarde is Melpomene Distinguished Professor of Classics at the University of California, Berkeley. He has published extensively on Greek tragedy and Euripides in particular, including Euripides: Medea (Cambridge, 2002) and Euripides: Phoenissae (Cambridge, 1994).