Author: Euripides
Publisher: Greek Tragedy in New Translati
ISBN: 9780195068740
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The translators of this new edition have focused their attention on tonal texture, resulting in a subtle and highly evocative translation of the unjustifiable sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter, Poyxena, and the consequent destruction of Hecuba's character.
Hecuba
Author: Euripides
Publisher: Greek Tragedy in New Translati
ISBN: 9780195068740
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The translators of this new edition have focused their attention on tonal texture, resulting in a subtle and highly evocative translation of the unjustifiable sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter, Poyxena, and the consequent destruction of Hecuba's character.
Publisher: Greek Tragedy in New Translati
ISBN: 9780195068740
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 116
Book Description
The translators of this new edition have focused their attention on tonal texture, resulting in a subtle and highly evocative translation of the unjustifiable sacrifice of Hecuba's daughter, Poyxena, and the consequent destruction of Hecuba's character.
Hecuba
Author: Marina Carr
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822235196
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Troy has fallen. It’s the end of war and the beginning of something else. Something worse. As the cries die down after the final battle, there are reckonings to be made. Humiliated by her defeat and imprisoned by the charismatic victor Agamemnon, the great queen Hecuba must wash the blood of her buried sons from her hands and lead her daughters forward into a world they no longer recognize. Agamemnon has slaughtered his own daughter to win this war. But now another sacrifice is demanded…In a world where human instinct has been ravaged by violence, is everything as it seems in the hearts of the winners and those they have defeated?
Publisher: Dramatists Play Service, Inc.
ISBN: 0822235196
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 41
Book Description
Troy has fallen. It’s the end of war and the beginning of something else. Something worse. As the cries die down after the final battle, there are reckonings to be made. Humiliated by her defeat and imprisoned by the charismatic victor Agamemnon, the great queen Hecuba must wash the blood of her buried sons from her hands and lead her daughters forward into a world they no longer recognize. Agamemnon has slaughtered his own daughter to win this war. But now another sacrifice is demanded…In a world where human instinct has been ravaged by violence, is everything as it seems in the hearts of the winners and those they have defeated?
Hecuba
Author: Euripides
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 80
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Euripides: Hecuba
Author: Euripides
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521191254
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
A new interpretation of a Greek tragedy on the fall of Troy: do violence, war and slavery make people less human?
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 0521191254
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 299
Book Description
A new interpretation of a Greek tragedy on the fall of Troy: do violence, war and slavery make people less human?
Euripides: Hecuba
Author: Helene P. Foley
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472569083
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular throughout Antiquity. The play also became part of the so-called 'Byzantine triad' of three plays of Euripides (along with Phoenician Women and Orestes) selected for study in school curricula, above all for the brilliance of its rhetorical speeches and quotable traditional wisdom. Translations into Latin and vernacular languages, as well as stage performances emerged early in the sixteenth century. The Renaissance admired the play for its representation of the extraordinary suffering and misfortunes of its newly-enslaved heroine, the former queen of Troy Hecuba, for the courageous sacrificial death of her daughter Polyxena, and for the beleaguered queen's surprisingly successful revenge against the unscrupulous killer of her son Polydorus. Later periods, however, developed reservations about the play's revenge plot and its unity. Recent scholarship has favorably reassessed the play in its original cultural and political context and the past thirty years have produced a number of exciting staged productions. Hecuba has emerged as a profound exploration of the difficulties of establishing justice and a stable morality in post-war situations. This book investigates the play's changing critical and theatrical reception from Antiquity to the present, its mythical and political background, its dramatic and thematic unity, and the role of its choruses.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 1472569083
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
Chosen as one of the ten canonical plays by Euripides during the Hellenistic period in Greece, Hecuba was popular throughout Antiquity. The play also became part of the so-called 'Byzantine triad' of three plays of Euripides (along with Phoenician Women and Orestes) selected for study in school curricula, above all for the brilliance of its rhetorical speeches and quotable traditional wisdom. Translations into Latin and vernacular languages, as well as stage performances emerged early in the sixteenth century. The Renaissance admired the play for its representation of the extraordinary suffering and misfortunes of its newly-enslaved heroine, the former queen of Troy Hecuba, for the courageous sacrificial death of her daughter Polyxena, and for the beleaguered queen's surprisingly successful revenge against the unscrupulous killer of her son Polydorus. Later periods, however, developed reservations about the play's revenge plot and its unity. Recent scholarship has favorably reassessed the play in its original cultural and political context and the past thirty years have produced a number of exciting staged productions. Hecuba has emerged as a profound exploration of the difficulties of establishing justice and a stable morality in post-war situations. This book investigates the play's changing critical and theatrical reception from Antiquity to the present, its mythical and political background, its dramatic and thematic unity, and the role of its choruses.
Andromache, Hecuba, Trojan Women
Author: Euripides
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603848258
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and political context in which Euripides wrote, and provides analysis of the themes, structure, and characters of the plays included. Her notes offer expert guidance to readers encountering these works for the first time.
Publisher: Hackett Publishing
ISBN: 1603848258
Category : Drama
Languages : en
Pages : 240
Book Description
Diane Arnson Svarlien's translation of Euripides' Andromache, Hecuba, and Trojan Women exhibits the same scholarly and poetic standards that have won praise for her Alcestis, Medea, Hippolytus. Ruth Scodel's Introduction examines the cultural and political context in which Euripides wrote, and provides analysis of the themes, structure, and characters of the plays included. Her notes offer expert guidance to readers encountering these works for the first time.
What's Hecuba to Him?
Author: Eva M. Dadlez
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271039817
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Fiction transports us. We inhabit new worlds in our imagination, adopt perspectives not our own, and even respond emotionally to persons and events that we know are not real. The very nature of our emotional engagement with fiction, says E. M. Dadlez, attests to the possibility of its moral significance, just as the nature of our imaginative engagement makes us collaborators in the creation of the worlds we imagine. This book engages contemporary debate over the seeming irrationality or inauthenticity of our emotional response to fiction, examining the many positions taken in this debate and arguing that we can understand the relation between cognition and emotion without devaluing our emotional responses to fiction. It takes Hamlet's famous query as the first step in an analytic philosophical inquiry and, by considering some of the answers that derive from that question, arrives at a set of necessary conditions for an emotional response to fiction. What Hamlet's player feels for Hecuba, proposes Dadlez, is no more illusory than what we feel for Hamlet; that the actor weeps for Hecuba reflects both our capacity to envision and understand a seemingly limitless variety of human situations&—to empathize with others&—and the capacity of fiction to facilitate such understanding. What's Hecuba to Him? is an enticingly written work that opens an entire philosophical arena to literary scholars and illuminates the significance that literature has for our moral life.
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271039817
Category : Psychology
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Fiction transports us. We inhabit new worlds in our imagination, adopt perspectives not our own, and even respond emotionally to persons and events that we know are not real. The very nature of our emotional engagement with fiction, says E. M. Dadlez, attests to the possibility of its moral significance, just as the nature of our imaginative engagement makes us collaborators in the creation of the worlds we imagine. This book engages contemporary debate over the seeming irrationality or inauthenticity of our emotional response to fiction, examining the many positions taken in this debate and arguing that we can understand the relation between cognition and emotion without devaluing our emotional responses to fiction. It takes Hamlet's famous query as the first step in an analytic philosophical inquiry and, by considering some of the answers that derive from that question, arrives at a set of necessary conditions for an emotional response to fiction. What Hamlet's player feels for Hecuba, proposes Dadlez, is no more illusory than what we feel for Hamlet; that the actor weeps for Hecuba reflects both our capacity to envision and understand a seemingly limitless variety of human situations&—to empathize with others&—and the capacity of fiction to facilitate such understanding. What's Hecuba to Him? is an enticingly written work that opens an entire philosophical arena to literary scholars and illuminates the significance that literature has for our moral life.
The Plays of Euripides in English ...: Introduction. The cyclops. Hecuba. The Trojan dames. Helen. Electra. Orestes. Andromache. Iphigenia in Aulis. Iphigenia in Tauris
Author: Euripides
Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 400
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 400
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The Hecuba of Euripides
Author: Euripides
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 160
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Hecuba. Orestes. Phoenician damsels. Medea. Hippolytus. Alcestis. Andromache
Author: Euripides
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 590
Book Description