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Synopsis
The Alcestis would hardly confirm its authors right to be acclaimed the most tragic of the poets. It is doubtful whether one can call it a tragedy at all. Yet it remains one of the most characteristic and delightful of Euripidean dramas, as well as, by modern standards, the most easily actable. And I notice that many judges who display nothing but a fierce satisfaction in sending other plays of that author to the block or the treadmill, show a certain human weakness in sentencing the gentle daughter of Pelias. The play has been interpreted in many different ways. There is the old unsophisticated view, well set forth in Paley spreface of 1872. He regards the Alcestis simply as a triumph of pathos, especially of that peculiar sort of pathos whic comes most home to us, with our views and partialities for domestic life. ... As for the characters, that oT Alcestis must be acknowledged to be pre-eminently beautifui. One could almost imagine that Euripides had not yet conceived that bad opinion of the sex which so many of the subsequent dramas exhibit. .. .B ut the rest are hardly well-drawn, or, at least, pleasingly portrayed. The poet might perhaps, had he pleased, have exhibited Admetus in a more amiable point of view.
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Euripides, the youngest of the three great Athenian playwrights, is thought to have written about ninety-two plays, of which seventeen tragedies and one satyr-play have survived.
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