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The Gentle, Jealous God - Reading Euripides' Bacchae in English (Hardcover)
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The Gentle, Jealous God - Reading Euripides' Bacchae in English (Hardcover)
Series: Bloomsbury Studies in Classical Reception
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Euripides' Bacchae is the magnum opus of the ancient world's most
popular dramatist and the most modern, perhaps postmodern, of Greek
tragedies. Twentieth-century poets and playwrights have often
turned their hand to Bacchae, leaving the play with an especially
rich and varied translation history. It has also been subjected to
several fashions of criticism and interpretation over the years,
all reflected in, influencing, and influenced by translation. The
Gentle, Jealous God introduces the play and surveys its wider
reception; examines a selection of English translations from the
early 20th century to the early 21st, setting them in their social,
intellectual, and cultural context; and argues, finally, that
Dionysus and Bacchae remain potent cultural symbols even now. Simon
Perris presents a fascinating cultural history of one of world
theatre's landmark classics. He explores the reception of Dionysus,
Bacchae, and the classical ideal in a violent and turmoil-ridden
era. And he demonstrates by example that translation matters, or
should matter, to readers, writers, actors, directors, students,
and scholars of ancient drama.
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