Euripides Our Contemporary - Hardcover

Walton, J Michael

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520261798 ISBN 13: 9780520261792

Publisher: University of California Press, 2014

Synopsis

In this accessible and beautifully written study of Euripides, the first study of all the plays of Euripides for thirty years, J. Michael Walton provides a wide-ranging appreciation of the playwright's entire canon. "Euripides Our Contemporary" treats these ancient dramas as vital engagements with issues of a moral, social, psychological, and political nature, as significant today as when the works were first performed. Walton moves with expert familiarity through all the plays, emphasizing what Euripides might have to say to us as our 'contemporary'. The book considers how Euripides finds parallels to ordinary life in the world of myth, how characters behave under extraordinary pressure and how personal responsibility may be absolved by circumstance, and discusses the nature of his theater, the great roles, and the playwrights most influenced by his work.

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Review:

"[A] stimulating and enjoyable work."--Bryn Mawr Classical Review (Bmcr) "[Walton's] easy familiarity with the material and his enthusiasm for the theatrical possibilities that Euripides continues to offer are infectious."--Comparative Drama

About the Author:

J. Michael Walton is a theater historian, translator, and director, and Emeritus Professor of Drama at the University of Hull. His books on Greek tragedy include Greek Theatre Practice, The Greek Sense of Theatre: Tragedy Revived, and Found in Translation: Greek Drama in English.

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2014
• ISBN 10: 0520261798
• ISBN 13: 9780520261792
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 256