The Art of Euripides - Dramatic Technique and Social Context (Hardcover, New)

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.

General

Imprint:	Cambridge UniversityPress
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Release date:	April 2010
First published:	2010
Authors:	Donald J. Mastronarde
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 22mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	376
Edition:	New
ISBN-13:	978-0-521-76839-9
Categories:	Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Literary studies > Classical, early & medieval Books > Language & Literature > Literature: history & criticism > Plays & playwrights > General
LSN:	0-521-76839-X
Barcode:	9780521768399

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