EURIPIDES AND DIONYSUS by R.Winnington Ingram ( 9781853995248 )

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Title:

EURIPIDES AND DIONYSUS
AN INTERPRETATION OF THE "BACCHAE"

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Paperback

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ISBN 10:

185399524X

ISBN 13:

9781853995248

Publisher:

BLOOMSBURY PUBLISHING PLC

Pub. date:

1 January, 1998

Series:

Bristol Classical Paperbacks

Pages:

210

Description:

A brilliant and influential study of the god of Greek drama and the one surviving tragedy, Euripides' Bacchae, in which he appears

Synopsis:

Euripides and Dionysus is a brilliant and influential study of the god of Greek drama and the one surviving tragedy, Euripides' Bacchae, in which he appears. The play has been intensively discussed by critics and very often staged, imitated and adapted in the years since Winnington-Ingram wrote this pioneering monograph, which is still cited as if it were a contemporary work of criticism. His interpretation, presented with great elegance, was composed at a time (just before the Second World War) when he was deeply troubled by what he had seen of fascism; it has special interest now for its place in the history of reception. P.E. Easterling's new Introduction sets the book in its original context and evaluates its reading of the Bacchae in light of more recent work on Greek religion and drama.

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black & white illustrations

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Bristol Classical Press

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