About this title: The Greek playwright Euripedes was misunderstood in his own time, but the topics he chose to write about--women's role in society, war, religion, and the human condition--are still relevant today. Included here: "Alcestis", "Hippolytus", "Ion", "Electra", "Iphigenia at Aulis", "Iphigenia Among the Taurians", "Medea", "The Bachhae", "The Trojan Woman", and "The Cyclops".
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Description: Very good. By Euripides; ISBN: 0451527003; Pub. : Signet Classics; Pub. Date: 1998-10-01; Media: Paperback; Weight: 9.92 oz.; Minor exterior wear and discoloration. All else is excellent. by Euripides; ISBN: 0451527003; Pub. : Signet Classics; Pub. Date: 1998-10-01; Media: Paperback; Weight: 9.92 oz.; Minor exterior wear and discoloration. All else is excellent.. read more
Binding: Mass-market paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780451527004ISBN:0451527003
Description: Very good. No dust jacket as issued. Near fine, pages are clean and tight, book is slightly cocked and there is minor edge wear. Mass market (rack) paperback. Glued binding. 578 p. Audience: General/trade. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780451527004ISBN:0451527003
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Description: Used: Good. Euripides Ten Plays by Euripides, Published by Bantam Books 1972, Paperback 11th Printing-Showing light exterior wear/creasing, contents are overall clean and tight with no owner markings. Images available upon request. Please email us with any questions. read more
Binding: Paperback
Publisher: Signet Classics
Date Published: 1998
ISBN-13:9780451527004ISBN:0451527003
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Didn't need stage directions, either, 'cuz the characters usually said what they were doing as they did it. "Oh, my anguished daughter, I press a cool cloth to your feverish brow, and cry out to the gods, when will your agony cease! Ai!" Better yet, he's got quick, believable dialogues, which (according to the editor) he practically invented: recognizable characters full of human failings and foibles, motivated by complex desires and hemmed in by familiar fears.
Not so much 'the gods will have their way' as 'what they hell are we going to do?'
how would a theorist say it? "Euripides systematically deconstructed the classical dramatic form, employing its tropes in unconventional formations to both critique the precedents and offer a promise of new hope to succeeding generations through his use of irony and pastiche..." oh i can't take it anymore.
take instead the last play, the one he wrote when he was old and in exile, which starts with an old man complaining about his aches and pains (bantering with his boss, who he respects but doesn't really like), rather than with a god giving a long monologue to preface the action and bring everybody in the audience up to speed. euripides' speed seems to be more along the lines of "you all know what i'm saying, right? well good, let's get busy, then."
and i don't know i believe so much the editor's claim that his use of deux ex machina was always a cynical comment. interesting to think that, but doesn't always seem to be true. maybe if the translator didn't fill the plays with so many current cliches (like "crime doesn't pay"), i would have an easier time believing that.
guess i'll have to read anne carson's translations of 'em..."
"Euripedes is one of the greatest writers who ever lived. I took a greek civilizations class and I really loved his work. His work is fresh and exciting. Its hard to think this was written so long ago.
Euripedes used to come in last every year in a yearly festival in Greece. He shows that critics and judges so not always have taste for his works have with stood the test of time. The other writers, the ones who won, are lost to history.
Medea is the best of the collection. This work is femenist and daring. Today the original ending is changed due to the controversial message. The reaction to the original audience must have been more so. This is just a great work in general.
Euripedes is a true treat to read. He is the only writer who has a masterpeice in every work. All of his plays are perfect and beautiful in language."
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