Bacchai
Title | Bacchai PDF eBook |
Author | Euripides |
Publisher | Oberon Books |
Total Pages | 80 |
Release | 2002 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN |
A new translation by Colin Teevan.
Bacchae and Other Plays
Title | Bacchae and Other Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Euripides, |
Publisher | Oxford Paperbacks |
Total Pages | 0 |
Release | 2008-06-12 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780199540525 |
The four plays newly translated in this volume are among Euripides' most exciting works. Iphigenia among the Taurians is a story of escape and contrasting Greek and barbarian civilization, set on the Black Sea at the edge of the known world. Bacchae, a profound exploration of the human psyche, deals with the appalling consequences of resistance to Dionysus, god of wine and unfettered emotion. This tragedy, which above all others speaks to our post-Freudian era, is one of Euripides' two last surviving plays. The second, Iphigenia at Aulis, centres on the ultimate dysfunctional family as natural emotion is tested in the tragic crucible of the Greek expedition against Troy. Lastly, Rhesus, probably the work of another playwright, is a thrilling, action-packed Iliad in miniature, dealing with a grisly event in the Trojan War.
The Bacchae of Euripides
Title | The Bacchae of Euripides PDF eBook |
Author | Wole Soyinka |
Publisher | W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | 132 |
Release | 1974 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780393325836 |
A wholly fresh interpretation of the timeless play by a Nobel Prize-winning author.
Euripides' The Bacchae
Title | Euripides' The Bacchae PDF eBook |
Author | Sirish Rao |
Publisher | Getty Publications |
Total Pages | 32 |
Release | 2004 |
Genre | Bacchantes |
ISBN | 9780892367658 |
This contemporary retelling of Euripides' The Bacchae-the last extant Greek tragedy-relates the classic myth of the god Dionysus wrecking vengeance on Thebes, the city of his birth and site of his mortal mother Semele's horrible death. Dionysus brings an army of women into the mountains surrounding the city and casts a spell over the city's own female population, leading them to abandon their husbands, sons, and fathers and to follow the god into the countryside and engage in his forbidden revels. Pentheus, king of Thebes, leads an army against the god, only to be defeated in battle and, as he secretly watches the revels, to be torn limb from limb by the frenzied Bacchae. Original illustrations silk-screened on handmade paper accompany the story. This unique handcrafted book will be a treasured addition to the libraries of those who love the arts of ancient Greece and the art of fine, contemporary bookmaking.
Euripides' Bacchae
Title | Euripides' Bacchae PDF eBook |
Author | Hans Oranje |
Publisher | BRILL |
Total Pages | 208 |
Release | 2018-07-17 |
Genre | Literary Criticism |
ISBN | 900432805X |
The purpose of this book is to investigate what it was Euripides intended to convey to the theatre-going public of his day when he wrote his most exciting and most gruesome play, the Bacchae. The meanings which are to be attached to the action of a play are woven by an audience, both during and after the performance, into a single dramatic experience, labelled in this book as 'audience response'. After some introductory chapters dealing with the history of the interpretation of the Bacchae and with the theory of audience response, the main part of the book is devoted to a detailed analysis of the action of the play (chapters 4 and 5), and to a study of Dionysus in his various apects in Athenian life and in his appearances in earlier literature and on the tragic stage. The discussion of the choruses concentrates on the choruses' repeated utterances about cleverness and wisdom, which form the core of the Dionysian propaganda of the play. The most immediate results of this new interpretation of the Bacchae are that the widely-accepted view of Pentheus as a dark puritan, a man possessed by the Dionysian qualities of his divine opponent, proves to be untenable, and that that which in the past has been rightly called the overriding theme of the play - the god's epiphany - also contains the poet's most serious and ironical discussion of divinity and of man's treatment of it. The problems of the Greek text are given full discussion, mainly in the nots and appendices. In many cases new solutions are proposed; some new problems are however added.
The Complete Euripides
Title | The Complete Euripides PDF eBook |
Author | Euripides |
Publisher | Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | 379 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 0195373405 |
Collected here for the first time in the series are three major plays by Euripides: Bacchae, translated by Reginald Gibbons and Charles Segal, a powerful examination of the horror and beauty of Dionysiac ecstasy; Herakles, translated by Tom Sleigh and Christian Wolff, a violent dramatization of the madness and exile of one of the most celebrated mythical figures; and The Phoenician Women, translated by Peter Burian and Brian Swamm, a disturbing interpretation of the fate of the House of Laios following the tragic fall of Oedipus. These three tragedies were originally available as single volumes. This volume retains the informative introductions and explanatory notes of the original editions and adds a single combined glossary and Greek line numbers.
The Bacchae and Other Plays
Title | The Bacchae and Other Plays PDF eBook |
Author | Euripides |
Publisher | Penguin |
Total Pages | 264 |
Release | 1954-10-30 |
Genre | Drama |
ISBN | 9780140440447 |
The plays of Euripides have stimulated audiences since the fifth century BC. This volume, containing Phoenician Women, Bacchae, Iphigenia at Aulis, Orestes, and Rhesus completes the new editions of Euripides in Penguin Classics. Features a general introduction, individual prefaces to each play, chronology, notes, bibliography, and glossary