Euripides Our Contemporary 1st Edition by Michael Walton ISBN 1408112043 978-1408112045
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ISBN 10: 1408112043
ISBN 13: 978-1408112045
Author: Michael Walton
‘In this masterful reevaluation of Euripides, Michael Walton recasts the playwright in light of his resonance for today’s translators and directors. Springing from the rehearsal room rather than the page, Walton shows us not only why we are ready for Euripides, but why we so desperately need him.’ Mary Louise Hart, Associate Curator of Antiquities, J. Paul Getty Museum
‘A useful, reader-friendly introduction aimed at non-specialists, [it] offers detailed summaries of Euripides’ plays, along with keen observations on their relevance for today’s theater.’ Rush Rehm, author of Radical Theatre
Euripides Our Contemporary is a major new study of the work of the great classical tragedian that illuminates his work and demonstrates both its vitality and how it continues to speak to us today. Taking a thematic approach to Euripides’ plays it provides the reader with a wide-ranging and thorough appreciation of the writer’s entire canon. For students, teachers and practitioners this is the best single-volume treatment of the writer’s work, considering the plays for their accessibility and for their focus on issues and concerns which are as significant as ever in the modern world.
Divided into three sections, the book first examines ‘Domesticating Tragedy’, the manner in which Euripides gave the world of myth an application to ordinary life. The second section tackles the ‘Grand Passions’: characters under extraordinary pressure and the extent to which personal responsibility can be absolved through various aspects of circumstance. The third looks at the nature of Euripides’ theatre and his acknowledgment of it, the great roles and the playwrights of the last hundred years whose craft seems most influenced by his work. An Appendix at the end of the book provides a short summary of the plots of all nineteen plays.
Euripides Our Contemporary 1st Table of contents:
I. Domesticating Tragedy
1. Playmaker and Image-Breaker
2. The Family Saga: Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigeneia at Aulis
3. Women and Men: Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus
4. The Comic Touch: Cyclops, Ion, Orestes, Electra, Bacchae, Children of Heracles, Helen
II. Powerful Forces: The Grand Passions
5. War and the Military: Rhesus, Trojan Women, Suppliants, Iphigeneia at Aulis
6. Revenge: Electra, Hecuba, Children of Heracles, Andromache, Medea
7. Immortals and Mortals: Alcestis, Iphigeneia Among the Taurians, Electra, Rhesus, Ion, Hippolytus
8. Sanity, Madness and Responsibility: Orestes, Heracles, Bacchae, Electra
III. Theatre Theatrical
9. Playing the Game: Illusion and Reality: Hecuba, Suppliants, Ion, Rhesus, Helen, Bacchae
10. Great Roles: Medea, Alcestis, Heracles, Hippolytus, Iphigeneia at Aulis, Hecuba, Electra, Helen,
11. Heirs to the Legacy: Shaw, Strindberg, Brecht, Pirandello, Anouilh, Sondheim, Frisch
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