The reception and performance of Euripides' Herakles : reasoning madness /
Euripides' Herakles, which tells the story of the hero's sudden descent into filicidal madness, is one of the least familiar and least performed plays in the Greek tragic canon. Kathleen Riley's study is the first to examine the reception and performance history of Euripides' Her...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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| Series: | Oxford classical monographs.
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| Online Access: | Connect to the full text of this electronic book |
| Summary: | Euripides' Herakles, which tells the story of the hero's sudden descent into filicidal madness, is one of the least familiar and least performed plays in the Greek tragic canon. Kathleen Riley's study is the first to examine the reception and performance history of Euripides' Herakles from the fifth century BC to AD 2006. Riley demonstrates that, in spite of its infrequent staging, the Herakles has always surfaced in historically charged circumstances - Nero's Rome, Shakespeare's England, Freud's Vienna, Cold War and post-9/11 America - and as had an impact on the history of ideas. |
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| Item Description: | "This book began life as an Oxford D. Phil. thesis"--Preface |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (viii, 398 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 368-387) and index. |
| ISBN: | 9780191560019 0191560014 9780191715945 0191715948 |