Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human - Couverture souple

Ringer, Mark

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1498518451 ISBN 13 : 9781498518451

Editeur : Lexington Books, 2018

Synopsis

Euripides and the Boundaries of the Human presents the first single-volume reading in nearly fifty years of all of Euripides' surviving plays. Rather than examining one or a handful of dramas in monograph or article form, Mark Ringer insists on the thematic and stylistic parallels that unite a diverse canon of works. Euripides is often referred to as the most modern of the three Ancient Greek tragedians, but in what way can the work of this fifth-century B.C. artist be claimed as modern? The multi-layered presentation of character is new within the context of Athenian Tragedy. The plays also reveal equal concern with the preservation and re-vitalization of tradition, especially with respect to the portrayal of the Olympian gods. Euripidean drama upholds tradition just as vigorously as it posits a new kind of realism in character portrayal in the Ancient Theatre. Euripidean drama fuses what was old with what was new in order to revitalize and perpetuate the art of tragedy.

This book will be of interest to professionals and students in the fields of classics, Greek drama in translation or in the original Greek, theater studies, comparative literature, tragedy, and religion.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Mark Ringer is professor of theater at Marymount Manhattan College, USA.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Lexington Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1498518451
• ISBN 13: 9781498518451
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 392
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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