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Euripides: Hecuba (Hardcover)
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Euripides: Hecuba (Hardcover)
Series: Companions to Greek and Roman Tragedy
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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.
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